Musashi Auto Parts UK Ltd: ACCURATE MEASUREMENT OF AUTOMOTIVE PARTS
Musashi Auto Parts UK Ltd: Bowers Metrology UK has earned a reputation second to none for providing cost-effective, innovative Air-Gauging solutions to the measuring needs of the UK’s Automotive manufacturing Industry. The considerable experience gained by Bowers within this demanding field enables them to provide a large range of ‘off-the-shelf’ Air-Gauging solutions and also to design and deliver cost-effective bespoke fixtures and accessories, enabling the most demanding of Air-Gauging measuring applications to be undertaken.
Typical of Bower’s many satisfied customers is David Moore, Quality Manager at the high-tech Musashi Auto Parts UK Ltd manufacturing plant based in Blackwood, South Wales. Boasting an impressive 70-year history of manufacturing a wide range of Automotive parts in its manufacturing plants situated in North and South America, Asia and Europe, the multinational Musashi Corporation’s customer base reads like a ‘who’s-who’ of the Automotive world. Mindful of Musashi’s enviable reputation for the high quality of the company’s wide range of Automotive products.
When faced with the need to find an extremely accurate way of measuring critical camshaft features, David Moore contacted Bowers UK and related his extremely demanding gauging requirements to their technical staff. David explains, “In addition to investing in state of the art CNC Machine Tools, to help uphold the Company’s reputation for the quality of our output, Musashi regularly invest in equipment that ensures that our valued customers continue to receive Automotive products of the highest possible standard. Having identified the need for an advanced Air-Gauging system that could accurately measure difficult to access camshaft bearing journal diameters, within Machine-Tool cycle times, I undertook a web-search in order to compile a list of potential suppliers. Having examined the merits of several alternative Air-Gauging providers, the ease of use, accuracy, repeatability and not least the price of the Bowers system convinced me to choose the Bowers option. Bowers designed and delivered a range of easy to use Air Snap-Gauges linked to Bowers PC2200 Air Columns. The great success of the first Bowers Air-Gauging measuring station installation convinced me to expend the scheme into several other areas of our busy Camshaft manufacturing facility. The significant contribution our Bowers Air-Gauging has made to the continued quality of our output and the enthusiasm for the system shown by our operators means that our Air-Gauging programme will soon be rolled-out to other areas.”
Designed to withstand the rigours of a harsh shop-floor environment, Bowers advanced PC 2200 Air/Electronic Measuring columns are able to be linked to a PLC or Logic controller and boast a multitude of features including - metric/imperial conversions, 3 colour LED display, clear digital display, status indicator, 2-4 probe input, probe mixing (A+B), (A-B), static/dynamic mode – Max –Min -TIR, Tolerance limit setting, approach limit setting, calibration Max/Min, accuracy 0.5% full scale +/- resolution, RS-232 output.
Published on June 02, 2008 09:56 updated on November 10, 2010 11:47