Now in its 40th year of operation, Mitutoyo UK supports its customer base not only with the supply of precision metrology products, but with the provision of subcontract measuring services. Among the latest companies taking advantage of Mitutoyo’s inspection offer is Elland-based FeTu Ltd.

FeTu is an innovation-driven enterprise which has developed a revolutionary ‘green’ energy device that targets carbon reductions across a broad range of systems and industries. Given the demanding dimensional tolerances and the critical geometries of the device’s two moving parts, FeTu founder and CEO Jon Fenton recently searched for a source of independent, high-precision inspection. The answer to FeTu’s precision inspection needs was found in Mitutoyo’s measurement services.

Mitutoyo’s staff use one of the company’s Crysta-Apex S series CNC CMMs to perform a range of in-depth, high-accuracy measurement routines on FeTu’s components.

“The high-precision CMM inspection work undertaken by Mitutoyo and the comprehensive inspection reports supplied to us, related to the accuracy of the moving parts and other critical aspects of our designs, has been invaluable,” says Fenton. “In addition, the speed and in-depth nature of the feedback received from Mitutoyo has helped to truncate our developments times.”

Andrew Fifield, manager of Mitutoyo’s measurement services department, adds: “Our team uses a range of state-of-the-art metrology equipment that enables the most demanding of components to be measured, profiled, analysed, scanned, programmed or compared with CAD. In addition, we’re able to accommodate all QC, QA production or SPC requirements. Having liaised with Jon at FeTu, we concluded that the use of a Crysta-Apex S Series CMM was the ideal means of achieving the necessary levels of precision and the speed of feedback required.”

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