Custom Dimensional Gauges
Customized Dimensional Gauge Products
Custom dimensional gauges provide significant value in a manufacturing setting. They can:
- Raise quality: Specifically designed gauges raise the validity of the measurement data, thereby raising quality of the product
- Improving efficiency: Being able to decrease the amount of time it takes to measure something or collecting more data in a certain timeframe improves the efficiency of a process
- Reducing risk: Reduce the potential cost of bad product reaching the market or reduce the risk of repetitive stress injuries due to poor ergonomics
Benefits of Working With Cross
We have been in the measurement business for more than 80 years and we excel at solving difficult, challenging, unique applications. Here are a few of the reasons customers choose Cross as their repeat custom gauge provider:
- Customer service: We work with you in every stage of the project – concept, quote, design/build, delivery, installation – to tailor a solution to your needs. If you’re not happy, we’re not happy and we’ll do what needs to be done to fix it.
- Quality products: Not only do our custom gauges measure accurately, they look fantastic and wear well. We don’t cut corners and we go beyond expectations to achieve durability.
- Speed: No matter how big or small the project, we can generally design, procure and build a custom gage faster than other manufacturers.
- Knowledge: With the diverse background of our engineering team, including camera/vision, electrical/wiring, software/controls, production/quality and our years of experience in the measurement industry, we frequently come up with creative solutions that other vendors can’t.
World-Class Customer Service
High-Quality Products
Quick Turnaround Times
Industry-Leading Knowledge
And much more
Dimensional Gauges Designed, Built, and Calibrated
Our custom dimensional gauges are designed and built for a customer’s specific measurement application. Sometimes this is simply a modification of an existing off-the-shelf device but other times, this is a completely custom, from-the-ground up development. Parameters that we can measure include:
- Length, width, height and thickness
- Flatness, roundness, straightness and other geometric characteristics
- Angles and perpendicularity
- Position
- Surface roughness and other surface characteristics
- Uniformity
When designing a custom gauge, the engineering team at Cross looks at the whole process, not just what measurement is needed and we take into consideration:
- Tolerance
- Criticality of the measurement, meaning what are the consequences of a false positive or a false negative
- Required throughput
- Operator skill
- Ergonomics
- Cost
- Durability
- Environment where it will be used and any special materials needed
- Maintenance and serviceability
- Ability to calibrate
- Data collection and networking requirements
Custom Gauge Calibration Services
When it comes to tools like gauges, high quality product manufacturing isn’t the only concern. You also need your gauge to be accurate, reliable, and provide repeatable results every time. Being able to trust your equipment is a necessary component in an optimized production process, and inaccurate tools can cause major problems down the line. This can include declining quality control, less satisfied end users, and even potentially extended downtime. These are all things we want to help you avoid.
One of the main ways we help our customers trust the accuracy of their dimensional metrology equipment like their custom gauges is to provide expert calibration services. For any of the precision measurement tools you get from Cross, we can also provide documented, traceable calibration services. This ensures that when you get your gauge, you know that it will be accurate
Interested in calibration services? Take a look at the ISO 17025 calibration services offered by Cross or contact one of our calibration experts today to learn more.
Examples Of Past Projects
Examples of past custom dimensional gauging solutions we have designed include:
- Semi-automatic airspring length and angle gauge for a tire manufacturer which measured difficult length and angle dimensions
- Easy to use bottle gauge for a pharmaceutical manufacturer which combined several go/no-go gauges into one
- Concentricity gauge for an ammunitions manufacturer which can be used on many different parts
- Upgrade of an off-the-shelf level gauge to include a digital protractor for an HVAC manufacturer to make it more useful
- Automated runout gauge to measure automotive shafts for a Tier 1 automotive supplier
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Why Cross Custom Dimensional Gauges?
At Cross Precision Measurement, our goal is to always provide our customers with the dimensional metrology equipment that they need. Whether it’s air gages or portable CMMs, we want to provide you with the metrological tools your operators need to succeed.
We’ve worked with a wide variety of operations, from local laboratories to large industrial complexes. And we’ve provided the same outstanding services to every one. These services can include pre-shipment equipment calibration, operator training on best practices for that equipment, and post-sales product support to ensure that you’re getting the most out of your new roughness gauge, caliper, 3D scanner, or any other tool from Cross.
In the industrial and manufacturing world, it’s always worth finding ways to optimize your process. That little bit of extra productivity can make all the difference in an increasingly competitive marketplace and can give you a competitive advantage over your competitors.
Between our products, calibration services, inspection services, and custom solutions, Cross Precision Measurement is a single-source dimensional metrology equipment and service provider to many in the industrial world. And we can provide those same world-class services and industry-leading products to your operation, too.
