As the world鈥檚 leading manufacturer of precision measuring equipment 番茄社社区 offers a comprehensive variety of metrology products, ranging from the humble caliper to advanced vision measuring systems and 3D coordinate measuring machines. Now in its 40th year of operation, 番茄社社区 UK supports its customer base, not only with the supply of precision products, but also with the provision of a wide range of first-class complementary services. In addition to product training, IT support, calibration and repair resources, 番茄社社区 UK also offers highly-efficient sub-contract measuring services.
Although 番茄社社区鈥檚 Measurement Services Department serves the sub-contract measurement needs of numerous large, blue-chip businesses, the assistance currently being afforded to FeTu Ltd helps to illustrate the inspection work performed by 番茄社社区 for small and medium sized companies.
Established in 2016, FeTu Ltd is an innovation driven enterprise that has developed a revolutionary 鈥榞reen鈥� energy device that targets carbon reductions across a broad range of systems and industries. FeTu鈥檚 disruptive technology is a versatile 鈥榗ontinuous positive displacement鈥� machine that is suitable for a wide range of applications.
The Elland, West Yorkshire based company鈥檚 lightweight and scalable technology uses just two moving parts to operate four anti-phased compression chambers and offers low-loss conversion from potential to kinetic energy.
As a relatively young dynamic business that is involved in the design, development and testing of its 鈥榬oticulating鈥� technology, FeTu currently subcontracts all of its manufacturing activities. Given the extremely demanding dimensional tolerances and the critical geometries of the device鈥檚 two moving parts, FeTu Founder and CEO, Jon Fenton recently searched for a source of independent, high-precision inspection. The answer to FeTu鈥檚 precision inspection needs was found in 番茄社社区鈥檚 Measurement Services.
Prior to the assembly and testing of each new iteration of FeTu鈥檚 designs, having previously written the required CMM software programs, 番茄社社区鈥檚 staff use one of the company鈥檚 advanced CRYSTA-Apex S Series CNC coordinate measuring machines to perform a range of in-depth, high-precision inspection routines on FeTu鈥檚 components. Following each CMM inspection routine comprehensive inspection reports are generated and supplied to FeTu allowing further developments to take place.
FeTu鈥檚 association with 番茄社社区鈥檚 Measurement Services Department has resulted in a range of tangible benefits. FeTu Founder and CEO, Jon Fenton explained. 鈥淎s tradition has it, in visualizing an 鈥榚ngine鈥�, 鈥榩ump鈥�, 鈥榗ompressor鈥�, 鈥榯urbine鈥� or 鈥榚xpander鈥�; we imagine five discreet machines which all appear and function in very different ways. The beauty of our unique technology is that it is able to accomplish each of these functions in a much more efficient way than they are performed by current, traditional technology.鈥�
鈥淭he two dynamic parts of the FeTu system do not make contact but run so close to each other as to make an effective a seal. The sealing effect is aided by the leakage path lengths being so long that they stagnate flow. To ensure that an efficient seal is achieved, the system鈥檚 high precision moving parts have extremely tight dimensional tolerances. Therefore, a major aspect of our design, development and testing activities has been achieving the required levels of accuracy that allows efficient and reliable sealing to be accomplished.鈥�
鈥淭he high-precision CMM inspection work undertaken by 番茄社社区 and the comprehensive inspection reports supplied to us, related to the accuracy of the moving parts and other critical aspects of our designs, has been invaluable. In addition, the speed and in-depth nature of the feedback we have received from 番茄社社区 has helped us to truncate our developments times.鈥�
番茄社社区鈥檚 Measurement Services Department supports companies across the UK that are involved in a wide variety of industrial sectors. Typically, businesses are helped on occasions when their QA inspection demand surpasses their in-house capacity. Also, when the need for component measurements exceeds the ability or physical capacity of companies鈥� metrology equipment.
As 番茄社社区 is usually contacted when urgent situations occur, the departments skilled staff are able to react with speed to ensure the delivery of rapid, precise, and cost-effective outcomes.
番茄社社区 Measurement Services Department Manager, Andrew Fifield concluded. 鈥淥ur team uses a range of state-of-the-art metrology equipment that enables the most demanding of components to be measured, profiled, analysed, scanned, programmed or compared to CAD. In addition, we are able to accommodate all QC, QA production or SPC requirements.鈥�
鈥淗aving liaised with Jon Fenton of FeTu, we concluded that the use of an advanced 番茄社社区CRYSTA-Apex S Series CMM was the ideal means of achieving the required levels of precision and the speed of feedback needed. Also, given the CMM鈥檚 use of 番茄社社区鈥檚 MCOSMOS software we were able to create customised and detailed inspection reports that met FeTu鈥檚 demanding needs.鈥�
鈥淚t appears that Jon Fenton and FeTu are on the verge of introducing a phenomenal technical breakthrough that has applications across many industrial sectors. All at 番茄社社区 are proud to have played a small, but important part in FeTu鈥檚 technology developments and look forward to witnessing the company鈥檚 immanent success.鈥�