Bowers Open House underlines consolidated offices and latest developments
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Bowers Metrology's recent Open House at its Camberley offices last month served to underline the fact that the company has now consolidated its UK sales team at the Surrey location, as from 1 July.
Apart from a large showroom, the benefit is that UK customers have just one point of contact, says Spear & Jackson Group managing director, engineering technology group, Steve White, with 12 technical support staff on hand in the single location, while there are seven direct sales staff.
Export sales are handled by the company's Bradford office, with that location also the home to Bowers' bore gauge metrology developments, while Burgess Hill remains home for Baty vision/profile projector developments. Smaller showrooms also exist at both sites.
Bowers and Baty products account for half of UK sales, with the remainder made up of product lines taking in such brands as Trimos Sylvac, Gagemaker thread gauges and Novotest – a one-stop shop for metrology, offers Mr White.
Present at the Open House for the first time in the outside a national exhibition was the Nemesis 9000 digital hardness tester (pictured). Capable of supporting Rockwell, Brinell and Vickers hardness tests, since companies would previously have required three separate machines, the all-in-one approach is attractive. Bowers also boasts a technical specialist to support sales of such machines.
Also being highlighted at the event was Baty's recent Fusion control which does away with the previous readout box. A PC-based measuring system with full geometric functionality, it boasts a graphical view of the measured part, which can be printed as a fully dimensioned drawing with geometric tolerances. Other graphics take in form error and SPC charts, while a full reporting capability includes tabulated details with pass/fail analysis, auto-link to Excel and auto sequence programming feature. It can be supplied as software only for self-installation or as a complete system. Supporting manual vision machines, it also comes as a CNC version that supports automatic part inspection. Retrofit is anticipated as an important market for this in coming years.
But an area where sales are really booming is with the Gagemaker thread gauges, recognised as the means to measure threads in the oil and gas industry and for which Bowers is the sole UK agent.
