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July 2010
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NEWS
Graham Cavendish &
John Washington
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ABTech Precision ~ Milton Keynes
Based in Milton Keynes Abtech provides services for all forms of toolmaking including:
press tools, plastic injection tools and rubber tools, jigs and fixtures, precision machined parts, prototype, small or large batches, urgent breakdown parts including site visiting, measuring broken parts, drawing and re-manufacturing.
Due to an increased order intake, Abtech's new modern machine shop needed an efficiency improvement within their QC department. Having scanned the internet for a CMM solution Status Metrology responded with a modern offering (model 500x700x400) at a cost effective price.
Traceability of measurement data along with certification of conformance was a key element in Abtech's choice of equipment supply.
As the Pc-Dmis software offered with the package is certified to the highest standards ~ the choice was easy as all measured data is historically stored.
After a quick delivery and only 2 days of training, Abtech's components continue to be reliably certified.
www.abtech-precision-engineering.com
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Perei Lighting
Founded in 1936 Perei Lighting Group based in Aldershot has been at the forefront of vehicle lighting equipment supplying to a global marketplace.-
Technological product innovation, concept design and manufacturing through to validation testing of lighting systems for the most demanding of temperatures and conditions are some of the strengths for their success.-
Perei’s products satisfy a spectrum of clients:-
OEM Automotive
Headlamp, Rearlamp, Signals and Interiors
OEM Commercial
Headlamp, Rearlamp, Modular and Trailer
Special Application
Industrial & Military, Wash Systems, Cosmetic Trim
LED ~ Non Automotive
LED Domestic downlight, Traffic Control, Industrial & Military
Keeping ahead of the competition is always an interesting challenge” said Martin Hurworth ~ Technical Manager.
We were undertaking an upgrade to our innovation centre and were looking for products to satisfy our needs for today and tomorrow. After exhaustive research, the products offered by Status Metrology fulfilled our expectations. Our CAD systems can now interact with our new fully automatic measuring machine and the Pc-Dmis CAD CMM software provides graphical feedback.
Since the early stages of the (model 900x1600x600) CMM integration, the endeavours of Status Metrology to ‘go the extra mile’ have been excellent and we are looking forward to a fruitful partnership.”
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NEWS
Status Pioneer CMM
Status Multi Gage 1.2 metre Arm
Status Vision Non Contact
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Almost 60 Companies attended our Summer Pc-Dmis developments Seminar event
Along with our partners Hexagon Metrology, who host the events, Pc-Dmis users are invited to attend 2 seminars sessions throughout the year. The principles of the events are to promote to our customers the ongoing developments that occur within the Pc-Dmis suite of Measurement software. We all understand that software continues to evolve with improved enhancements and therefore the seminars are the means to broaden our CMM users knowledge in its use and operation.
Almost 70 people attended our Summer venues in Telford and Swindon. Attendees were divided into 5 groups in order that each topic was conveyed thoroughly.
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PC-DMIS Planner ‘Linking Design and Inspection’
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PC-DMIS 2010 MR1 General Enhancements
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Creating External Fixture Alignments
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A special mention of thanks to Steve Nevey ~ Business Development Manager for Red Bull F1 Racing, who gave a presentation about his companies ongoing developments and partnerships. Steve’s examples were breathtaking and a beacon for British design & manufacturing.
Check out the Red Bull Racing Youtube link
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Did you know ?
Charles Rolls statue in Monmouth
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Charles Rolls
The life and achievements of Charles Rolls were celebrated in Monmouth on 12 July ~ the 100th anniversary of his death. Paul Barrett, who organised the event, said that the co-founder of Rolls-Royce, whose ancestral home was the Hendre estate near the town, “was a true pioneer in more ways than one.”
“He was the entrepreneur really, selling cars before he met Henry Royce, who was good with engines and everything. Charles got interested in flying and he really left the cars to Henry, but then the company caught up and started manufacturing engines for Spitfires and all sorts.”
Charles Rolls’ achievements remain extraordinary. He was the first Briton to fly across the Channel and back without stopping. He was a founding member of the Automobile Club of Great Britain and the Royal Aero Club in 1903. In the same year, he won the Gordon Bennett Gold Medal for the longest single flight time, he was a keen balloonist and made more than 170 balloon ascents. Tragically, he was the first man to die in an aeronautical accident – in 1910, aged just 32.”
Determined to keep Mr Rolls’ legacy alive, Mr Barrett had meetings with Roll-Royce plc, Monmouthshire Council and the Nelson Museum in Monmouth to discuss commemorative activities such as hot-air ballooning, vintage Rolls-Royce car parades and the unveiling of a new plaque on his statue in Monmouth’s Agincourt Square. He said: “It’s quite a sad story really. Charles Rolls died in 1910, his father died shortly after, and his brother died in the Somme. He had another brother who had mental-health problems, and his sister never had any children. The Rolls family died out in a generation
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Did You Know ?
1. There are 4.3 million businesses in the UK
2. 3.16 million businesses are 'one man bands'
3. 453,000 new businesses were started last year
4. 1.17 million businesses employ 2-500 people
Technology Growth
Few disagree that the UK urgently needs sustainable economic growth to restore jobs and tax revenues. But planning a route map will be far from simple, and the shape of the final destination is far from clear.
Business services is the largest contributor to growth and will continue to be central to the UK economy. Returning to a golden age is never easy and it's often not desirable.
Looking through the telescope at how competitor nations are shaping up and working out what goods and services to export to them will be the real challenge for businesses, governments and think tanks.
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Business News
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NEWS
1760s: John Harrison's revolutionary
H4 marine chronometer lost just
under a second a day at sea
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World’s Most Precise Clock Keeps Time to One Second in 3.7 Billion Years
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built an enhanced version of an experimental atomic clock based on a single aluminum atom that is now the world's most precise clock, more than twice as precise as the previous pacesetter based on a mercury atom. The new aluminum clock would neither gain nor lose one second in about 3.7 billion years.
It works on the same basic principle that microwave atomic clocks have employed since the 1950s, but utilises optical (visible) light, which being of a higher frequency, provides more accurate timekeeping.
Clocks have come a long way in the past one thousand years. First there was the Sun Dial Clock and in 1088, the Chinese developed a water clock accurate to about 100 seconds a day.
In the 17th Century, pendulum clocks were accurate to about 10 seconds a day. By the 1930s, the most accurate clocks kept time to within a second over a three-day interval.
Clocks have myriad applications. The extreme precision offered by optical clocks is already providing record measurements of possible changes in the fundamental "constants" of nature, a line of inquiry that has important implications for cosmology and tests of the laws of physics, such as Einstein's theories of special and general relativity. Next-generation clocks might lead to new types of gravity sensors for exploring underground natural resources and fundamental studies of the Earth. Other possible applications may include ultra-precise autonomous navigation, such as landing planes by GPS
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Pc-Dmis Users
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PC-DMIS CMM SOFTWARE
RELEASE INFORMATION
Is your CMM software up-to-date?
Find out all of the latest information regarding
PC-DMIS development, Software Certification, 'Hot-Fixes' by visiting the following link ...
http://www.wilcoxassoc.com/home.php
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