Inspection capabilities upgraded

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After boosting its manufacturing capacity with three new Mazak Integrex machines, Bushell & Meadows upgraded its inspection capabilities with a new Mitutoyo CMM.

The Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire based subcontractor has invested heavily in advanced, high-speed CNC machine tools and serves a range of demanding markets including the medical, aerospace and defence sectors.

It specialises in the production of complex components from a variety of materials including titanium, plastics, aluminium, stainless steel and other special alloys. The company is able to undertake the development of prototypes and carry out production runs ranging from small batches to quantities of over a thousand. A second speciality is the manufacture of high grade surgical steel blades for oscillating, reciprocating and sagittal bone saw tools

The recent installation of several highly productive machine tools, including Horizontal Machining Centres with pallet loading, prompted the purchase of an advanced Coordinate Measuring Machine and an Optical Profile Projector from Mitutoyo UK. 

Bushell and Meadows Production Manager Paul Vedmore explained. “We have a wide range of CNC Milling capabilities provided by our Mazak, Matsuura, Haas and Star Sliding Head machines. Also, to help satisfy growing demand from our customers we have recently added three new Mazak Integrex Machines.

“Each job that leaves our company has been through numerous quality control processes, for example first-off assessments, in-process checks and thorough final inspection routines.

“As our increased levels of production had the potential to place a strain on our inspection capability, to help ensure that we were able maintain our high quality standards we recently installed a high-speed, high-accuracy Mitutoyo CRYSTA-APEX S 574 CNC Coordinate Measuring Machine to compliment the Mitutoyo CRYSTA-APEX S776 that we already have, we also purchased a multipurpose Mitutoyo PJ-A3000 profile projector for non-contact measuring inspection work.

 “Now fully operational, our new Mitutoyo CMM and profile projector have significantly expanded our inspection capabilities and have increased  our busy quality department capacity, enabling it to keep pace with our increased levels of production.

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