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Fowler assists many industries and businesses. Our products are used in countless applications, from the simplest hand measurements to incredibly accurate instruments taking the most critical measurements. Fowler meets challenges in a variety of ways. From introducing technologies that are perfect, off-the-shelf productivity boosters, to complex custom applications that tackle the most difficult measuring challenges. You’ll find examples of both here.

BOWERS - BORE GAGING FLEXIBILITY BOOSTS PRODUCTIVITY

TRIMOS HEIGHT GAGE/BOWERS PISTOL GRIP

ezLCD Drives Ease of Use in World's First Portable CMM

Fowler High Precision Announces the zCAT: The World’s First Truly Portable DCC CMM

Fowler MTC Caught on Camera

Improving Machine Tool Performance Using Precision Levels

Did you know that up to 75% of initial errors of a new machine tool can usually be traced to manufacturing, assembly and installation? Machining errors can come from various sources including heat, machine wear, static deflection of machine components, misalignments due to assembly and a soft machine foundation. (click on the photo for the rest of the story)

BOWERS PISTOL GRIP BORE GAGE

Schweizer Aircraft Corp. (Elmira, NY), the country’s only family-owned aircraft manufacturer, is busy at work to more efficiently and reliably inspect 100% of the parts it makes. As a maker of a diverse range of aircraft products such as helicopters, agricultural and reconnaissance aircraft and special-purpose unmanned vehicles, as well as parts for Boeing, Northrup-Grumman, Sikorsky and Lockheed-Martin, the company is giving closer attention to upgrading its in-processing inspection operations.(click on the photo for the rest of the story)

UNIVERSAL GAGE SOLVES LARGE PART MEASURING PROBLEM

Special Tools Solve Tricky Problems for Missouri Manufacturer

Sedalia, Missouri - Quality Question: how to measure a part 80" long to a close tolerance of .002"? This was the challenge at Gardner Denver Machinery Inc., which had long searched in vain for a reliable way to check the external length of an impeller used in a blower it produces and the case in which it fits, requiring an equally tight tolerance. (click on the photo for the rest of the story)

WYLER ZEROTRONIC SENSORS DELIVER WAFERS FASTER

Precise determination of inclinations is a critical requirement for Seagate Inc. (Bloomington, MN), a vertically integrated builder of hard disk and tape drives for data storage.

An outside vendor manufactures wafer substrates by a unique hot-pressing process and then supplies them to Seagate, which builds up its recording head structures on them. Seagate's own ceramic-grinding operation on the finished wafer is extremely sensitive. The 4.5-inch square wafers each worth thousands of dollars are ground down to 1,250 microns. (click on the photo for the rest of the story)

ZEISS IMPROVES INSPECTION TIME USING FOWLER/WYLER 2D LEVEL SENSORS

Minneapolis, MN, - A new way to check out rotational deviations on the sophisticated coordinate measuring machines produced by Carl Zeiss, Inc.'s IMT Division reduces inspection time by two hours per machine.
According to Brad Hanneman, Calibration Group Leader at the IMT manufacturing plant, "I know of no other rapid way to correct rotational devices. This is an operation that used to require lengthy measurements using mechanical indicators on a master reference plus long and drawn-out calculations to correct these deviations." (click on the photo for the rest of the story)

TRIMOS HORIZONTAL: MEETING ROTATING PART SPECS FOCUSES MACHINE SHOP ON QUALITY.

It's axiomatic in the metalworking industry that for quality production, a measuring gage has to be ten times more accurate than the part it measures. "We call it a gage R&R of ten percent," says Willie Michaely, quality assurance manager of NCI, Inc. (Asheville, North Carolina) of Dowty Aerospace and a member of the British TI Group... (click on the photo for the rest of the story)

First-Ever Portable DCC CMM Makes 3D Measurements as Easy as 1-2-3

Fowler High Precision, globally recognized as a leading supplier of high-quality inspection, leveling, control and calibration equipment, introduced the world’s first truly portable direct computer control coordinate measuring machine (DCC CMM) called the zCAT. In addition to being... (click on the photo for the rest of the story)

Inventor of the Articulated Arm Homer Eaton Introduces a Revolutionary Portable Automatic CMM

Homer Eaton wanted to develop a portable, easy to use, automatic 3D measurement machine. After spending many years stringing thoughts and ideas together, technology finally caught up with Eaton’s dreams and allowed him to achieve his goal with his latest invention. The zCAT is the world’s first truly portable direct computer control coordinate measuring machine (DCC CMM)... (click on the photo for the rest of the story)

The zCAT Takes Portability to Another Level

Lightweight, automated and completely wireless, the world’s first truly mobile DCC CMM can be deployed anytime, anywhere...(click on the photo for the rest of the story)

The Only Portable DCC CMM on the Market Saves Money at Every Turn

Leading high-quality inspection, leveling, control and calibration equipment supplier Fowler High Precision, announced the zCAT to the world as the very first truly portable direct computer control coordinate measuring machine (DCC CMM). With its introduction to the industrial market, the zCAT makes it possible... (click on the photo for the rest of the story)

zCAT Brings Accuracy and Repeatability to Portable Measurement

Fowler High Precision, globally recognized as a leading supplier of high-quality inspection, leveling, control and calibration equipment, announced the world’s first truly portable direct computer control coordinate measuring machine (DCC CMM) called the zCAT... (click on the photo for the rest of the story)

zCAT Introduction Caps Off More Than Four Decades of Development

The zCAT direct computer control coordinate measure machine, or DCC CMM, is designed to be smaller and portable compared with traditional CMM devices. It has been in the making for more than four decades... (click on the photo for the rest of the story)