Torus Metrology

Why choose Torus Metrology?

By choosing Torus Metrology, you are choosing a UKAS accredited calibration laboratory. Not only can you rest assured that you are receiving the most appropriate service for your requirements, but you will also discover that the UKAS ‘symbol’ on your documentation brings with it national and international recognition to your business.

You should be confident that your goods, services, and their component parts are based on measurements taken with correctly calibrated measuring equipment. There is a way to ensure that your organisation adheres to the requirements of its ISO 9001 certification, which also means you can have increased confidence that any calibration carried out on your behalf is done so in a reliably competent, consistent, and impartial manner and to the correct degree of accuracy. The international standard ISO/IEC 17025 defines what is required of a laboratory in order for it to demonstrate both technical competence of the personnel and the availability of all the technical resources needed to produce reliable data and results for a defined set of tests, measurements or calibrations.

Choosing a competent calibration laboratory is important in maintaining your reputation as a responsible business. It is therefore paramount that you choose to use the service of a laboratory whose competence has been confirmed by an independent, authoritative third party such as UKAS. Torus Measurement Systems are UKAS accredited and rigorously audited to BS EN ISO/IEC 17025 procedures, ensuring you receive the best possible service.

Torus Metrology provide UKAS Calibration Services for Dimensional Measurement. Offering both 1st Principle and CMM capabilities, our expertise and knowledge provide a complete UKAS Calibration Service for the dimensional measurement of components, including but not limited to; machined parts, castings, injection mouldings, tooling, receiver and positions gauges, jigs, fixtures and final products. Master and Artefact Calibration Torus also provide a comprehensive UKAS calibration and recall service for all Masters and Artefacts.
As an original equipment manufacturer (OEM), this also includes Masters and Artefacts supplied with our Metal Packaging, Plastic Packaging, Aerospace, Medical and General Gauging. We recommend an annual re-calibration in which your Masters and Artefacts will be assessed for wear, damage and integrity to ensure your final product quality is never compromised.

Torus Metrology provide a UKAS CMM Verification and Serviceacross a wide range of industries. Torus recommend an annual UKAS verification and service of all CMM equipment, due to dust and airborne contaminants settling on CMM scales, belts, drives, pipe-lines and guideways. This ensures minimal impact on production and manufacturing, whilst providing verification that the CMM continues to satisfy
your measurement requirements.

Torus recommend an annual UKAS verification and service of all CMM equipment, due to dust and airborne contaminants settling on CMM scales, belts, drives, pipe-lines and guideways. This ensures minimal impact on production and manufacturing, whilst providing verification that the CMM continues to satisfy
your measurement requirements.

Your UKAS verification and service will include:
• A standard service ensuring your CMM is in good working
order, which will include a detailed review of your CMM
capabilities and environmental conditions.
• A comprehensive CMM verification, conducted in
accordance with the technical specification detailed, will
be completed by one of Torus’ UKAS accredited engineers.
• Once completed you will be provided with a detailed
verification report and a UKAS Calibration Certificate.
• You will be added to Torus’ Recall Management
System and will be contacted 6 weeks prior to your CMM
verification due date.

Torus Metrology provide independent onsite consultation to determine the best solution for your application.
Torus stock a wide variety of spares and aim to deliver within 48 hours.
Torus are also able to source components from multiple OEM’s and can be your ‘one-stop’ shop saving you time and effort. Torus also supply our own range of metrology tables and enclosure, all designed and buil in-house to your requirements.

Choosing Torus Technology Group as your CMM training provider means you are benefiting from a training team with years of CMM experience. Our team of experts have developed a training program that is structured to not only meet all of the essential CMM training requirements, but to also allow users to tailor the course to their own needs and focus on the areas of training that are most beneficial to you and your business.

Based on your requirements, CMM training courses can be delivered one-to-one or in small group classes and can be conducted on-site, or in our own state-of-the-art UKAS laboratory.

Torus Metrology provide a full UKAS Arm Verification service covering a wide range of industries.
Torus recommend an annual UKAS verification of all measurement Arms, ensuring confidence in the Arm performance within the working environment, to ensure a minimal impact on production and manufacturing, whilst providing verification that the Arm continues to satisfy your measurement requirements.

Your UKAS Arm Verification consists of:
• A basic health check on your Arm to ensure good working
order prior to starting the verification.
• All of our engineers are accredited by UKAS and will
conduct your Arm verification in accordance with the
technical specification detailed.
• Once completed you will be provided with a detailed
verification report and UKAS Calibration Certificate.
• You will be added to Torus’ Recall Management
System and will be contacted 6 weeks prior to your Arm
verification due date.

Torus Metrology provide a full UKAS Height Gauge Verification across a wide range of industries.
Torus recommend an annual UKAS verification of all complex height gauges ensuring confidence in the gauge performance within the working environment. This ensures minimal impact on production and manufacturing whilst providing verification that the height gauge continues to satisfy your measurement
requirements.

Your UKAS Height Gauge Verification will include:
• A bi-directional verification over the full range of your
height gauge, performed by one of our UKAS accredited
engineers.

• Once completed you will be provided with a detailed
verification report and a UKAS Calibration Certificate.
• You will be added to Torus’ Recall Management System
and will be contacted 6 weeks prior to your Height Gauge
verification due date.

Torus Metrology provide a wide range of Sub-Contract Inspection services to meet your inspection requirements. Torus’ inspection team work closely with our customers to meet their measurement requirements; our expertise and knowledge can help provide you with a quick, easy and professional reporting. Our experience across a wide range of industries including medical, automotive, aerospace, presswork, injection molding, packaging and more, allows us to tailor part measurement and inspection services to suit
each customer’s inspection needs; from single first articles to large-scale volume batches.
Within Torus’ UKAS accredited laboratory we have the capability to offer First Principle Inspection, Optical CMM Inspection and Tactile CMM Inspection, which can be utilised for:

• First Article Inspection Reports (FAIR)
• First-Off Inspection Reports (FOIR)
• Last Article Inspection Reports (LAIR)
• Initial Sample Inspection Reports (ISIR)
• Production Part Approval Process (PPAP)

Torus Metrology provide part programming for a wide range of industries using our team’s expertise and experience.
Torus’ team of experienced engineers can help alleviate your programming load to create high quality, ready-to-go programs catered to your drawing requirements. Our experience across a wide range of industries means we can create programs for even the most demanding components, with or without CAD data.

Programs can be created offline or live on a sample component in our UKAS Accredicated Laboratory, ensuring program prove out
is completed without disruptions to your production/inspection schedule. Can’t send a sample? Don’t worry – Torus have in-house
3D printers available, simply send us the CAD file and we can prove out the programs using printed components.
Fixtures can be designed, manufactured and tested at Torus to provide full turnkey solutions installed by our engineers.
Our in-house 3D printing capability means we can create bespoke fixturing systems that traditional manufacturing would struggle
with. A smooth handover process means you only need to press go! Sudden engineer unavailability? Torus can assist you with on-site programming. Our engineers will come to your site and work on your CMM to cover any lost production time.

We are here to help with all your inspection needs, whether you struggle with inspection capacity, or need extra capability, we can meet your requirements and alleviate the pressure. Having many years of experience producing measurement equipment and using Optical inspection services, our engineers design and build ergonomic and practical solutions to meet your needs.

Our Accreditations Torus Metrology has a UKAS (United Kingdom Accreditation Service) Calibration Laboratory which conforms to the requirements of ISO 17025.

This ensures that we are competent to deliver confidence in our activities which are conducted in a reliable, credible and accurate manner.

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