Dimensional Specialist Inspection and Measurement Services
NPL offers a fast response service for difficult to measure components that require highly skilled techniques traceable to National Standards. Our services provide high-confidence inspection results within timescales that critical production cycles demand.
Bespoke reporting
Measurement results can be presented in a customised format to suit your requirements - therefore ensuring quality systems are adhered to within the production environment.
Measurement experts
As the UK's largest measurement centre of excellence, NPL employs nationally recognised experts in factory floor inspection.
Flexible solutions
Depending on your preference, if the equipment is transportable work can be carried out at our metrology laboratory at Huddersfield or on your premises where needed.
The most complex measurements are delivered from our world-class facilities in Teddington, ensuring access to one of the UK's most comprehensive source of specialist support.
NPL also offers a variety of products ranging from on-demand services to temporary or permanent outsourcing of customers' high-end inspection capabilities.
Access to expertise
NPL offers continuous access to a reliable source of experts and affordable inspection skills at a time when customers are having increased difficulty in retaining high calibre metrology and inspection staff of their own.
Our services include:
- First principles measurement to customers' drawings (including turbine blades, compressor blisks and discs, fixtures, special to product gauges and gold standard masters)
- Development of specific CMM programmes for parts with complex features and tight tolerances
- Correlation of on-table and CMM results and supporting CAD data
- Supply of First Article Inspection Reports
- Independent verification of complex components with very high tolerance features, including prismatics and difficult to specify parts
- Inspection of surface structures and surface finish production of final inspection reports
- Verification of CMM performance using state-of-the-art technology developed by NPL
- Development of novel measurement and inspection techniques
- Resolution of measurement related disputes
Contact
Please contact: 01484 471413 (Huddersfield) or 07738 894855 (mobile)
or email: huddersfield_lab@npl.co.uk
Specialist Inspection and Measurement Services case studies
- NPL offers a flexible, affordable training programme to improve our customers' measurement skills.
- Developing measurement techniques for small-scale medical components.
- NPL's extensive turbine blade measurement expertise helps customer improve safety and drive down costs.
- Improved measurement strategy enables customer to improve automotive products.
- Bespoke measurement strategies for complicated freeform components.
- Writing CMM programmes to verify rotating, safety critical, engine parts.
- Improved quality using specialist measurement techniques to assess fixture wear.