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.

Mitutoyo – Tooling

Mitutoyo was founded in 1934 by Yehan Numata with one product, the micrometer. Mitutoyo’s philosophy at that time was to make high-quality micrometers, but also to produce them in quantities that made them affordable and available to all of manufacturing. This philosophy was expanded in the next several decades to include a wider product offering focused on mechanical, dimensional gaging products, such as calipers, dial indicators, and other measuring tools.

As electronic technology became more widespread in the 1970s, Mitutoyo applied electronics to its line of dimensional gaging equipment to include electronic, or digital, measuring tools. During this time it also began to offer larger, more complex and more sensitive measuring instruments, including optical comparators, form measuring equipment, and coordinate measuring machines (CMMs). As statistical process control (SPC) was introduced, Mitutoyo led the world in the development of output gages, interfaces, data collectors and analysis software to take advantage of this new metrological science.

When the computer made its way into the field of metrology, Mitutoyo again shifted its focus to include this technology into its product offering and push measuring accuracies into the sub-micrometre range. Today, Mitutoyo presents its 6,000+ products as integrated, computer-based metrology systems, where they can be interconnected to form closed-loop-measuring networks.

Mitutoyo America Corporation was formed in 1963 and is headquartered in Aurora, Illinois (just outside of Chicago). Mitutoyo America offers the full product line of precision measuring tools, instruments and equipment with a distribution network, training and education classes, software development, and service support to provide a comprehensive metrology organization.

Dr. Yehan Numata is also the founder of Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai (BDK), the Society for the Promotion of Buddhism, which sponsors the Buddhist Canon Translation Project.

Metronics – Tooling

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

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.

Mitutoyo – Gaging

Fowler

Industry Served
The Fred V. Fowler Company is globally recognized as one of today’s leading suppliers of quality control and inspection equipment.
Founded in 1946, we have dedicated our 62 year history to supplying the most innovative measuring products possible.
Innovation in Measuring
As industry moves more in the direction of computer-aided manufacturing, Fowler continues to introduce important new tools designed to lead the way in inspection and measuring. Familiar items—including calipers, micrometers, indicators, height gages and bore gages — have been redesigned and now feature state of the art electronics to ensure compatibility with the latest in computer integrated manufacturing and statistical process control (SPC).
Customer Focused
In order to reliably meet customer expectations, Fowler’s technical sales team is in the field. We are customer focused and customer driven. “Downsized” American manufacturing is time poor and demand rich. Manufacturers increasingly rely on their key supply chain partners to make critical product decisions.
At Fowler, we are absolutely committed to providing our customers total support. What Fowler brings to a customer is a partnership in the ability to satisfy your requirements in terms of quality, cost and service.
After Sales Support
Using a team approach, we will demonstrate to your you that working harder with fewer people does not have to mean that quality is in any way compromised…on the contrary, quality is the key to sustained growth in a downsized manufacturing environment.
Sales support should never start and stop with an introductory sales meeting. Fowler sales support means a different approach to our customers needs. We have direct field support, and a full staff of technical and knowledgeable personnel ready to help you.
Product Support
Your customers want it now: service support and stock availability are the name of the game. Well, as a supplier of instruments we back that up.
Fowler ships 95% of all orders every day. We have an extensive inventory and a fast and professional service department backed by the industry’s best warranty program.
Quality
Quality is our passion. Quality in management, quality in sales, service and support and most of all, quality in products sold.
Let’s face it, ultimately you choose instrument providers based on what they can bring to the table. When you own Fowler products, you own value, solid experience, innovation, a get-it-done spirit and the best precision instruments in the world.
History
The Fred V. Fowler Company incorporated in 1946, has grown nationwide and across North America to include offices in Boston, Chicago and Ontario, Canada. Fowler is also now available in Mexico, with four regional locations. By exclusively distributing products manufactured by world leaders in measuring, Fowler has become a major force in the field of precision electronic tools.
Each of our offices have demonstration centers to familiarize our customers with our products. In addition, our national network of select distributors are well-trained, stocked and ready to help you with your measuring needs.
Product Line
The Fowler Company’s product line includes precision tools, electronic measuring instruments, optical measuring instruments, gage calibration equipment, and hardness testers.

With an emphasis on “user-friendly” electronics, we offer primarily industry standard RS232 output for data collection and SPC (Statistical Process Control), not some proprietary signal requiring additional interfaces. We even offer several leading software packages, including ” SPC Express”, and “Software Wedge”.
As always, we continue to offer our popular lines of non-electronic tools, including high-quality micrometers, vernier and dial calipers, dial and test indicators, rules, gage blocks, stands, magnetic bases, squares, parallels and hundreds of other fine measuring tools essential to industry.