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#Mitutoyo - A History of #Metrology Leadership

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History
Mitutoyo - A History of Metrology Leadership
The world's largest metrology company was founded in 1934 by Yehan Numata with one product - the micrometer. Mitutoyo's philosophy at that time was to make the best mechanical micrometer in the world. But also to produce them in quantities that made them affordable and available to all of manufacturing so they could improve the quality of the products they manufactured. This philosophy was expanded in the next several decades to include a wider product offering focused on mechanical, dimensional gaging products. Mitutoyo focused its R&D and production efforts on creating the most advanced micrometers, calipers, indicators and other measurement tools in the world.
As electronic technology became more widespread in the 70s, 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. 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 metrology 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-micron 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.
As the leading metrology company in the world, Mitutoyo is committed to future product development that applies breakthrough technologies to its full range of dimensional measurement tools, instruments and systems.
Dr. Yehan Numata is also the founder of the Buddhist Canon Translation Project.

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Michael Elson, President of Light Tool Supply working in machine shop. (Picture taken Maplewood NJ 1994)

Michael Elson, President of Light Tool Supply visits Mitutoyo Office in Germany (Picture taken in Germany 1994)

My Father, Gene Elson, current President and Founder of Penn Tool Co. Inc. (Picture taken Newark NJ 1967)

My Mother, Phyllis Elson, working at an Industry Trade Show 1972

Mahr Federal Inc. Gaging Tips- Gaging Those "Oddball" Applications

 

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GAGING THE "ODDBALL" APPLICATION George Schuetz, Mahr Federal Inc. Virtually all metalworking shops need to measure holes, thicknesses, and heights.  Some shops, however, have to perform measurements that are more limited in application: some are industry or even company specific. Oftentimes, manufacturers attempt to satisfy unusual gaging applications by designing and fabricating a gage in-house.  Most of the concepts of gage design are straightforward, and clever machinists can figure out how to apply these concepts in fairly basic fashion, usually by incorporating stock components such as indicators and gage heads, into custom-made fixtures.  Amateur gage design, however, may not be efficient.  It's often more cost effective to let gaging experts work out the details and spread design costs over a larger number of users. Following are examples of gages developed for specialized applications.  There are two points to be made here: the first is that even the most obscure measurement tasks can usually be performed by relatively simple gages.  The second is that many gage makers are more than willing to work on "oddball" applications, freeing gage users to concentrate on their real business. There are hundreds of thousands of countersunk rivet holes in the skin of a typical airliner.  To achieve maximum holding power and minimum wind resistance, the head of every rivet must sit flush with the outer surface of the skin.  However, government standards strictly limit the degree to which a manufacturer can grind down proud-standing rivet heads.  As countersink bits wear, countersink diameters and depths change.  Riveters need to measure the countersinks, in order to pick the right size rivet from an available selection range. Countersink gages, operate like hand-held, plunger-type depth gages, with special-ratio dials or electronics, to convert vertical movement at the contact into diametric measurements.  The gage contact must be chosen to correspond with the included angle of the countersink.  Some gages measure the major, or entry diameter, while others measure the depth of the minor diameter (where the countersink meets the straight hole).  Although aerospace is currently the predominant application, other high-precision sheet metal industries have applications. More exotic is a gage which is used to measure and control the results of the shot peening process.  Shot peening bombards a part with a stream of steel or glass particles, inducing sub-surface material compression and greatly reducing stress cracking under tensile loads.  Shot peening is widely used on automotive and compressor crankshafts and conrods. To measure the process, a thin metal test strip is subjected to the shot stream.  The strip bends in a predictable manner, as a function of shot stream intensity.  An shot peen gage measures the radius of the strip.  Gage manufacturers have developed innovative mastering strategies to take both the longitudinal and transverse curvatures of the strip into account, and use refined mechanisms and geometries to hold and measure the strip without distortion.  Although the shot peen gage is essentially a bench top depth gage, it's these important details that make the gaging process quick and cost effective.                            Aerosol and beverage can manufacturers have highly specialized gaging requirements.   Tight tolerances must be maintained, both in order to ensure proper functioning of valves, seals, and pop-tops, and to save material: at production rates of several million units per day, a wall thickness variation of a few millionths quickly adds up to tons of aluminum.  There are more than a dozen critical dimensions on most cans, including such arcane features as crimp groove location, valve stem height, and "tab top bubble height." In order for SPC to be effective when manufacturing cans the gaging results must work their way back to the manufacturing process in a timely manner as the cans go whizzing by.  Whole catalogs of can gages have been developed.  At the lower end of the technology spectrum are specialized indicator gages, which differ from generic gages mainly in the shapes of their reference surfaces and sensitive contacts.  Once again, the dimensions being measured here are simply variations on the basic themes of height, depth, thickness, ID, and OD.  But the theme can be elaborated almost infinitely, depending upon the need for precision, throughput, and electronic output.  Engineered fixture gages incorporating air jets and/or electronic gage heads can get the manufacturer halfway there, while fully automated systems with parts handling capabilities can ultimately make can gaging a hands-off, closed-loop process. If the only concern is accuracy, then gage design can be pretty simple: laboratories achieve extremely good results with a dial indicator and a comparator stand.  Production applications, however, impose additional demands of throughput, ease of use, delivery, and maintenance and mastering intervals.  When it comes to cost effectiveness in specialized applications, it's the details that make the difference.

Fagor Automation reaches its highest record in export sales

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Fagor Automation reaches its highest record in export sales
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Fagor Automation reaches its highest record in export sales getting close to its €70 Million of before the world crisis.

Fagor Automation will launch new projects in 2011 in the sales, industrial, innovation and international areas. Actions going from the launching of new products to the creation of technology for electrical vehicles and investments at their manufacturing plants in Mondragón and Usurbil (Spain).

Fagor Automation faces the year 2011 with the only unknown caused by the weakness of the European market. In the rest of the world it already showed a remarkable recovery in 2010 with a new record in exports: €58 million that represent a 63% annual growth.

Pedro Ruiz de Aguirre, Anton Sagasta, Koldo Berasategi

China was the main market representing 40% of their international sales and 35% growth; the USA with 60% growth and India where they grew sevenfold. Their greater penetration in this country as backed by the opening of their branch offices in New Delhi and Pune in 2010 adding to the one in Bangalore (2008) and they are planning to open a new subsidiary in Rajkot (Gujarat). This network is becoming almost as important as the one in the USA (6) and in China (5, including a manufacturing plant).

Although the Spanish market only reached 50% of its potential, the sales of the cooperative amounted to €66 million, getting close to the €70 million invoiced before the world crisis.

In order to maintain the rhythm of product innovation, Fagor Automation will dedicate more than 10% of its revenues to R&D, an area employing more than 80 people of its staff. The company has added projects backed by the Basque government, the Ministry of Industry and European institutions. The most recent one, Etorgai, will open their doors to diversity towards the electrical vehicle. The research will take place between 2010 and 2012 together with Fagor Ederlan, Cegasa, Ecenarro and Mondragon Automotive. Fagor Automation will work on creating a new electrical machine and a charger that will take advantage of the energy generated by an explosion (combustion) engine to load the battery and extend the autonomy of the vehicles beyond 300 km.

At the same time, in the machine-tool area, it participates in two projects having to do with machining on large machines: the Cenit Impeler, with Ibarmia, Correa, Juaristi and Ona; and the European Chameleon, with Soraluce and Goialde. Also, Fagor Automation is part of the Innpacto-Fore project with the Complutense University in Madrid to create large angular encoders, up to 2 meters that will facilitate the positioning of large machines or scientific facilities. They have also recently signed a three-year agreement  to promote R&D with the Automatics and Robotics Center in Madrid.

And last, the people in charge of the company have come up with an investment plan for €3 million for 2011. The funds will be destined to reinforce the machining capability of motors in Usurbil by incorporating boring mills and improve part finish quality and accuracy in the manufacturing plant of Arrasate-Mondragón by automating their processes which will require among other equipment, the installation of a special line of covering, automatic dosing machines and robots.

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