Metronics – Gaging

Metronics has merged operations with long-time parent company HEIDENHAIN.

HEIDENHAIN continues to develop, manufacture and market — on a global scale — the world-class metrology software and geometric digital readouts you rely on to deliver major productivity and accuracy gains to your quality assurance and measurement tasks. With expanded capabilities, new, brighter screens and more, HEIDENHAIN’s Quadra-Chek® digital readouts continue to provide unmatched support for single-axis and multi-axis dimensional measurement of 2-D and 3-D parts on new and existing tool platforms. Quadra-Chek digital readouts and PC-based products integrate innovative user interface conventions and state-of-the-art ergonomics with powerful data import, export and analysis tools. Quadra-Chek products are supported by an international team of field engineers.
If you already have a Quadra-Chek product on your shop floor, on any metrology instrument, you can easily integrate our newest products. If you are just developing a dimensional inspection capability, no other company provides as broad a product offering to help you grow as your needs change. Best of all, Quadra-Chek products share measuring protocols and interface conventions across the HEIDENHAIN product line, which accelerates training, promotes cross-training and improves measurement accuracy.

Heidenhain – Tooling

HEIDENHAIN today

HEIDENHAIN is represented in more than 50 countries today, mostly by wholly owned subsidiaries. Sales engineers and service technicians support the user on-site with technical information and servicing.

The high quality of standard of HEIDENHAIN is documented through certification in the ISO 9001 quality systems model and by authorization as German Calibration Service (DKD) inspection station for units of length and angle. Long product service life and recyclable designs on the one hand and careful use of resources and optimized energy consumption on the other are preconditions for the Environmental Declaration in compliance with ISO 14001.

The high quality of HEIDENHAIN products depends on special production facilities and measuring equipment. Masters and submasters for scale manufacturing are produced in a clean-room building, with special measures for temperature stabilization and vibration insulation, built especially for this purpose. The copying machines and the machines required for the manufacture and measurement of linear and circular graduations are also developed and built by HEIDENHAIN.

Milestones in HEIDENHAIN’s History and Product Development

The origins of our company lie in a metal etching factory established in late-nineteenth century Berlin. Founded by Wilhelm Heidenhain in 1889, this firm manufactured templates, signs, scales and graduations. After World War II, Wilhelm Heidenhain’s son established today’s company, DR. JOHANNES HEIDENHAIN GmbH, in the Bavarian municipality of Traunreut. Graduations and price scales for the retail trade were among our first products. Drawing on experiments he had conducted in Berlin, Johannes Heidenhain began producing first-of-their-kind optical position measuring systems for machine tools. Dr. Heidenhain and his team subsequently developed photoelectrical linear and angular encoders. These and other innovations produced by HEIDENHAIN initiated the automation of numerous machines and manufacturing plants.

During the past two generations, DR. JOHANNES HEIDENHAIN GmbH has emerged as an important manufacturer of numerical controls and drive technology for machine tools.

For nearly 125 years, HEIDENHAIN has pioneered highly technical solutions to complex manufacturing requirements. To ensure his company would always remain true to his principles, in 1970 Dr. Johannes Heidenhain entrusted the shares of his company to a foundation. Dr. Heidenhain’s objective was to ensure both the continuity of his company and his firm’s unwavering commitment to technical progress. Dr. Heidenhain’s foresight has allowed us to continue to invest extensively in applied research and development.

Quality and Environment

Quality

As long ago as 1930, Dr. Johannes Heidenhain formulated the three principles of Service to the customer, highest achievable quality and continuous improvement as prerequisites for our company’s success. To this day, these principles remain the basis for our work and actions. The requirement for highest achievable quality refers not only to the final products, but also to all activities in our company. The high HEIDENHAIN quality standard has been confirmed by certification according to ISO 9001.

Environment

But quality isn’t everything. HEIDENHAIN also sets standards in environmental protection. Long life cycles and products designed for recycling on the one hand and resource conservation and the sparing use of energy one the other are prerequisites for environmental certification according to ISO 14001. Validation according to EMAS also affirms HEIDENHAIN’s sustained development efforts toward products that are lastingly economical, ecological and socially compatible.

HOMMEL-ETAMIC America Corp.

Hommel-Etamic, the Industrial Metrology Division of the Jenoptik Group, is a leading manufacturer and system provider of high-precision, tactile and nontactile production metrology.
The range of products provided include total solutions for a wide range of measurement tasks such as testing surfaces, form, and determining dimensional tolerances – throughout all phases of the production process, for final inspection or in a metrology lab.

As a turnkey metrology solution provider, Hommel-Etamic America Corporation is one of the leading manufacturers of industrial metrology systems for the North and South American markets.

In addition to our complete line of standard products covering optical, contact, and pneumatic technologies, HEAC also manufactures a wide range of custom metrology solutions for dimensional, surface roughness, topography, contour, fixture, variable attribute, assembly, and in-process gaging.

Our contribution to our customers’ success includes simultaneous engineering, project management, software development, metrology services, instrumentation, and after-sales service – all from a single source!

Metronics – Tooling

Metronics has merged operations with long-time parent company HEIDENHAIN.

HEIDENHAIN continues to develop, manufacture and market — on a global scale — the world-class metrology software and geometric digital readouts you rely on to deliver major productivity and accuracy gains to your quality assurance and measurement tasks. With expanded capabilities, new, brighter screens and more, HEIDENHAIN’s Quadra-Chek® digital readouts continue to provide unmatched support for single-axis and multi-axis dimensional measurement of 2-D and 3-D parts on new and existing tool platforms. Quadra-Chek digital readouts and PC-based products integrate innovative user interface conventions and state-of-the-art ergonomics with powerful data import, export and analysis tools. Quadra-Chek products are supported by an international team of field engineers.
If you already have a Quadra-Chek product on your shop floor, on any metrology instrument, you can easily integrate our newest products. If you are just developing a dimensional inspection capability, no other company provides as broad a product offering to help you grow as your needs change. Best of all, Quadra-Chek products share measuring protocols and interface conventions across the HEIDENHAIN product line, which accelerates training, promotes cross-training and improves measurement accuracy.

Heidenhain – Gaging

HEIDENHAIN today

HEIDENHAIN is represented in more than 50 countries today, mostly by wholly owned subsidiaries. Sales engineers and service technicians support the user on-site with technical information and servicing.

The high quality of standard of HEIDENHAIN is documented through certification in the ISO 9001 quality systems model and by authorization as German Calibration Service (DKD) inspection station for units of length and angle. Long product service life and recyclable designs on the one hand and careful use of resources and optimized energy consumption on the other are preconditions for the Environmental Declaration in compliance with ISO 14001.

The high quality of HEIDENHAIN products depends on special production facilities and measuring equipment. Masters and submasters for scale manufacturing are produced in a clean-room building, with special measures for temperature stabilization and vibration insulation, built especially for this purpose. The copying machines and the machines required for the manufacture and measurement of linear and circular graduations are also developed and built by HEIDENHAIN.

Milestones in HEIDENHAIN’s History and Product Development

The origins of our company lie in a metal etching factory established in late-nineteenth century Berlin. Founded by Wilhelm Heidenhain in 1889, this firm manufactured templates, signs, scales and graduations. After World War II, Wilhelm Heidenhain’s son established today’s company, DR. JOHANNES HEIDENHAIN GmbH, in the Bavarian municipality of Traunreut. Graduations and price scales for the retail trade were among our first products. Drawing on experiments he had conducted in Berlin, Johannes Heidenhain began producing first-of-their-kind optical position measuring systems for machine tools. Dr. Heidenhain and his team subsequently developed photoelectrical linear and angular encoders. These and other innovations produced by HEIDENHAIN initiated the automation of numerous machines and manufacturing plants.

During the past two generations, DR. JOHANNES HEIDENHAIN GmbH has emerged as an important manufacturer of numerical controls and drive technology for machine tools.

For nearly 125 years, HEIDENHAIN has pioneered highly technical solutions to complex manufacturing requirements. To ensure his company would always remain true to his principles, in 1970 Dr. Johannes Heidenhain entrusted the shares of his company to a foundation. Dr. Heidenhain’s objective was to ensure both the continuity of his company and his firm’s unwavering commitment to technical progress. Dr. Heidenhain’s foresight has allowed us to continue to invest extensively in applied research and development.

Quality and Environment

Quality

As long ago as 1930, Dr. Johannes Heidenhain formulated the three principles of Service to the customer, highest achievable quality and continuous improvement as prerequisites for our company’s success. To this day, these principles remain the basis for our work and actions. The requirement for highest achievable quality refers not only to the final products, but also to all activities in our company. The high HEIDENHAIN quality standard has been confirmed by certification according to ISO 9001.

Environment

But quality isn’t everything. HEIDENHAIN also sets standards in environmental protection. Long life cycles and products designed for recycling on the one hand and resource conservation and the sparing use of energy one the other are prerequisites for environmental certification according to ISO 14001. Validation according to EMAS also affirms HEIDENHAIN’s sustained development efforts toward products that are lastingly economical, ecological and socially compatible.

Marposs

Marposs Corporation, headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan USA, is part of the global group of Marposs companies, whose business began in 1952 and who provides uniform worldwide support of all its products and applications. From its origins in White Plains, New York, in 1963, Marposs Corp. has become one of the industry’s leading suppliers of measurement and inspection devices and process control systems to end-user manufacturers, machine tool builders and automation suppliers in the United States and Canada.

Marposs Corp. employs approximately 135 skilled professionals. In addition to sales, service and training, Marposs Corp. also provides engineering, manufacturing, project management and comprehensive system integration services. Strategic placement of Marposs sales engineering and service teams throughout the United States and Canada provides its customers with a local support team. These teams are backed by resources located within its corporate headquarters and Toronto, Ontario regional office. Additionally, Marposs Corp. has an extensive distribution network staffed with trained sales personnel.

With a keen focus on quality, continuous improvement and cost containment, Marposs Corp. has achieved numerous accreditations including ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and Ford QOS. The company also received the Ford Q1 Award and in 2005 the Global Supplier Award for Manufacturing Goods & Services from DaimlerChrysler AG.

The mission of Marposs Corp. is to provide the best solution possible for all applications requiring measurement, control and data management at each stage of the production process, and to deliver and support these solutions to its customers wherever they locate worldwide. Performance and uniformity of all Marposs core products and components are guaranteed by the quality systems in place in our main R&D and manufacturing facility in Bologna, Italy.

In the drive for “zero defects” manufacturing, Marposs Corp. recognizes that it is no longer acceptable to rely only on measuring tools designed for the laboratory. Providing the capability to accurately measure and document quality at the point of application has become a necessity. That is why Marposs Corp. supplies gauges and other measurement and control devices that can function and survive with repeated daily use on the plant floor.

Because Marposs Corp. recognizes that applying a “one-size-fits-all” strategy may end up compromising the desired results, the company has expanded its range of measurement and control products to include systems that incorporate optical, air, or eddy current technology, in addition to its traditional contact electronic technology. The company has also developed gauging solutions for assembly, as well as systems for testing leakage of parts. At the other end of the spectrum, Marposs has introduced a full line of functional gauges, masters, calipers and go/no go tools.