Metrology as a service
Breaking through the bottleneck How AddQual is using metrology to rethink manufacturing qualification
In the world of high-stakes manufacturing, think aerospace, power generation, and medical devices, there’s little room for error. Every component has to be perfect, every measurement exact. Yet the process of verifying and qualifying these parts can be... well, a bit of a nightmare. Scrap costs pile up. Production slows to a crawl. Launches get delayed. Sound familiar? It’s a pain point that Ben Anderson knows all too well. “Personal pains,” he calls them. As the founder and Managing Director of AddQual Ltd, Anderson set out to tackle the inefficiencies of traditional qualification head-on by putting metrology, the science of measurement, at the very heart of manufacturing quality. “I saw it again and again,” he recalls. “Manufacturers were generating mountains of measurement data, but there was a massive gap between having the data and being able to make confident decisions from it. Everything felt slow, expensive and, frankly, prone to human error.”
focus: helping manufacturers of safety-critical components qualify parts quickly, consistently and with full confidence. Their suite of services is designed to cut through the chaos that plagues traditional quality assurance. From supporting component qualification to optimising production inspection and guiding Continuous Improvement (CI) investigations, AddQual is reshaping how businesses think about quality. One of the company’s core offerings is its component qualification service, handling metrology data capture and reporting for everything from tiny 2mm³ parts to whopping 2m³ structures, across all manner of materials. “OEMs and MROs often come to us with incomplete or unclear inspection requirements,”
Changing the game, one measurement at a time
AddQual isn’t just another quality control firm. It’s a metrology-driven mission with a clear
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