Manufacturers to showcase Leicestershire’s engineering expertise
Tuesday 1st June 2010
Tower Tool, of Wigston, and Phase Vision, of Loughborough, are jointly exhibiting their world-class products and services at the MACH 2010 show, from June 7 to 11 at Birmingham’s NEC and at the International Farnborough Air Show in July.
For both firms it is their first showing at the two prestigious exhibitions attended by major companies from around the world.
The businesses will be showing buyers how they work together, marrying Phase Vision’s portable, cutting edge 3-D measuring devices with Tower’s expertise in toolmaking.
A recent project for an aviation business saw a replacement part rapidly made for a helicopter by Phase Vision’s technology scanning an old component and Tower Tool reverse engineering the tooling to make a new one.
Phase Vision, based at the Innovation Centre in Loughborough, has pioneered the development of patented white-light 3D scanners for the shop floor, aircraft hangar, or dockyard. It is launching its new Quartz range of scanners at MACH 2010, which will bring the scanning technology it created for major aerospace clients into the realm of medium-sized manufacturers, costing between £50,000 and £100,000 each.
Tower will be showing how it uses the scanners to create computer aided design (CAD) data of parts which pre-date sophisticated CAD manufacturing. Tower managing director Myles Ball said: “It’s ideal for situations where accurate technical drawings are cumbersome, may not exist or are incomplete, or where recreating those drawings to generate CAD data would be inefficient or laboriously time-consuming.
“With Phase Vision’s clever scanners we generate a detailed CAD file very quickly, from which we make the tools to replicate the desired objects. It is great that two Leicestershire businesses can use such high-profile shows to shout about what they can do together.”
Phase Vision chief executive Ralph Weir said: “We are bringing something very new to the industry. So it is great we can do so along an excellent tooling company such as Tower who can demonstrate its application.”
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