Good advice is hard to find when it arrives attached to a quote. And most of the time, the question you called about is not the question that needs answering.
We are three people, not a firm. We come into your plant, spend time on the floor, and talk to everyone from the operator to the program manager, because the answer is usually spread across all of them. We look at how measurements are taken, and just as hard at why they are taken, when in the process, where, and what happens to the numbers afterward. Sometimes what we find is not a measurement problem at all. We will tell you that too.
These names appear here because we evaluate them, not because we sell them.
Metrology is three things you are already doing.
Collecting data, processing it, reporting it. That happens in your plant every day whether or not anyone in the building calls it metrology.
Collect
Getting numbers off the part. Setup and access, how the part is held, what the temperature was, who is holding the probe.
Process
Turning points into an answer. Alignment, fitting, how the tolerance gets interpreted, and who is allowed to make the call.
Report
Getting the answer to whoever has to act on it, in a form they can act on now and defend in three years.
Nearly every plant we walk into has its arms around the first one and is improvising the other two. That is usually where the money is.
Wherever your measurement process stands today, there is a place to start.
Most of our work follows one path. You do not have to start at the beginning, and plenty of clients join us at the far end, with a sound process and a new program coming online.
Step four often becomes step one again — new program, new requirements
Standalone engagements. Clients come to us for these on their own terms, with or without the work above.
Built for places where a measurement mistake is expensive.
Large, complex, high-stakes manufacturing, where parts are big, tolerances are tight, and getting measurement wrong costs real money. These are the industries we know from the inside.
Shipbuilding
Hull & block alignment, large-structure measurement, and dimensional control on parts that don’t fit on any inspection table.
Details→Aerospace
Tight-tolerance inspection, assembly verification, and measurement processes that stand up to the scrutiny this industry expects.
Details→Automotive
High volume, hard cost pressure. We match tool and method to throughput, so quality and speed stop fighting each other.
Details→Heavy Manufacturing
Big machined parts, weldments, and assemblies that are awkward to measure and costly to scrap. Home turf for portable metrology.
Details→Nuclear & Energy
High-consequence work with traceability to match. Measurement processes that hold up to an audit as well as an inspection.
Details→Tier 1 & Tier 2 Suppliers
Meet customer requirements without overbuying. We right-size the investment and get the most out of the equipment you have.
Details→Led by the people who ran these operations.
Not analysts who studied the industry, leaders who built and ran the departments. Decades each running dimensional control, metrology, and major capital programs at some of the most demanding industrial sites in the country, and a current read on the field, not a 30-year-old contact list: Ron and Joe hold leadership positions across industry, workforce development, and metrology organizations, and the partners work with major manufacturers today.
More about the partners and the firm→
Four decades in dimensional control and large-scale measurement, on both sides of the fence. Ron led the Dimensional Control Department at Newport News Shipbuilding, then helped build and lead the service and sales side of the metrology industry.
Four decades in optical and 3D measurement, most of it spent leading the crews doing the work. Joe ran shipfitting, welding, and metrology at one of the country’s largest shipbuilders.
Twenty-five years as a shipbuilder, then nearly two decades leading sales and business development in defense, naval shipbuilding, nuclear energy, and capital equipment. Paul knows how a capital decision actually gets made and funded.
Tell us what you’re running into.
If you’re weighing an equipment purchase or fighting a measurement problem that won’t quit, a short conversation is the best place to start. No charge to find out if we’re the right fit.
Not sure yet? Book a free 20-minute fit call. We’ll tell you honestly if you don’t need us.