Products & Services
- NPL has several CMM’s suited for different sizes of components.
- Calibration service for dimensional measurement of artefacts and components.
- Calibration service for dimensional measurement of artefacts and components.
- NPL offers calibration services for both internal and external diameter standards and roundness measurements.
- A three day training course introducing measurement knowledge focusing upon dimensional techniques.
- A four day training course for those who have a good basic understanding of measurement principles gained through the Level 1 training course.
- Calibration of length standards such as gauge blocks, length bars and step gauges.
- Coventry University, with NPL's assistance, has launched the UK's first ever Foundation Degree in Metrology.
- Measurement capabilities provided by the Freeform Centre.
- Efficiency of aero engines, drag reduction for automotive bodies and increased life span of prosthetics are just some examples of the gains potentially achievable with suitable advances in freeform manufacture.
- NPL has three fringe projection systems for the measurement of components and FreeForm surfaces.
- NPL has the UK's most accurate calibration services for the measurement of engineering length standards.
- A high-accuracy calibration service for spheres and hemispheres.
- NPL has increased its micro co-ordinate metrology capabilities in direct response to the extreme demands of quality assurance for the measurement of size, form and position of microsystem parts.
- Laser trackers are polar coordinate measuring systems capable of high accuracy measurements over long distances, for example the system used by NPL can measure 40m distances to within ± 60mm.
- Calibration of thermal expansion coefficient of length bars and long gauge blocks.
- Calibration of length bars and long gauge blocks by interferometry.
- NPL provides a one-stop service for the characterisation of the form and texture of surfaces through an extensive range of facilities.
- NPL provides traceable measurements of surface texture with an expanded uncertainty (95% confidence) of 1.3 nm.
- NPL provides dimensional measurement facilities and standards for industries requiring accurate measurements using non-contact optical instrumentation.
- NPL offers a range of services devoted to supporting non-contact dimensional measurements.
- NPL offers a service to calibrate the form of optical flats up to 300 mm in diameter.
- A two day training course for users of large volume metrology systems.
- NPL offers a range of services in support of accurate ophthalmic measurements including the calibration of customer supplied reference lenses with measurements based on ISO 9342:1996.
- NPL designs and calibrates a range of optical scales and reference patterns for quantitative microscopy, image analysis and non-contact measurement systems.
- Measurement service for tapered screw thread gauges.
- Pitch reference screw measurement.
- NPL has developed a step gauge calibration system which uses laser interferometry to achieve the best accuracy for calibration of step gauges in the UK. Step gauges up to 1500 mm long can be calibrated.
- Laser trackers are polar coordinate measuring system capable of high accuracy measurements over long distances, for example the system used by NPL can measure 40m distances to within ± 60mm.
- NPL provides services for the characterisation of the form and texture of micro or nano-scale surface features using our extensive range of facilities.
- Measurement service for surface texture.