Is your equipment list growing through plant consolidation but not your manpower?
It’s a common refrain that we hear with many of our customers. Due to shifting demand in certain areas or industries, plants are being closed, with their equipment being shipped to areas where it’s needed. What never seems to shift is the manpower to keep all that equipment in calibration!
Luckily, Cross Precision Measurement can help with a range of calibration services to suit your particular need:
- Just need us to help out with a few pieces of equipment or something specialized which you don’t have the standards for? One of our twenty ISO 17025 certified labs can help with per piece calibration.
- Want us to come onsite to supplement your team? All of our labs offer onsite calibration services to save time and reduce the amount of back-up equipment needed.
- Need someone (or several people) full time? Cross also offers full-time embedded calibration and QA/QC services, where our associates work on your site exclusively for you. We have decades of experience over hundreds of different sites, so we can work with you to design an embedded solution tailored to your specific needs.
With world-class technical expertise and unbeatable customer service, Cross Precision Measurement delivers the best in calibration with a smile. And don’t take our word for it. See what our customers have to say about one of our branches or look here for the branch nearest you.
Need to get more out of your old CMM? Upgrade it!
The structure of a coordinate measuring machine (CMM) is built to measure for 20 years or more. But unfortunately, the control systems, electronics and software aren’t so long lasting. Not only will they need more and more maintenance and support but they can quickly become outdated as new technology is developed.
CMMs are also expensive pieces of capital equipment to replace which can be hard to justify. Not to mention the hassle of moving an old one out and the new one in! Fortunately, Cross Precision Measurement can help. For any brand of CMM, keep your existing hardware but upgrade to state-of-the-art electronics and control systems.
What's New at Cross
Save Energy with an Optimized Compressed Air System
An optimized compressed air system can mean substantial reductions in overall energy consumption, with industrial facilities saving 20-50% on average on their electric bill over 24 months. We recommend Parker’s Transair aluminum compressed air piping system to try and achieve these savings in your own facility. Read some of the key advantages of the Parker Transair System here.
8 Things to Consider When Choosing an Ultrasonic Flow Meter
Ultrasonic flow meters provide a number of advantages when monitoring flow, from ease of installation and limited downtime to lack of intrusion into your pipes. These meters provide reliable measurement data without the need to interrupt your process or risk leaks in your facility.
The team at Cross are experts in selecting the right ultrasonic for your application. Key considerations include medium, temperature, pipe type and more.
Did You Know?
No spill couplings are specifically designed to minimize spillage and air inclusion when connecting due to their flat face valves. This not only avoids fluids ending up on your people, your machine or on the ground, but with no deep recesses, contaminants don’t build up and get into your machine, leading to less equipment breakdown. Parker has an extensive line of flat faced couplers for many different applications which are available at any of our five Hose & Fittings retail stores.
Visiting the IVT Show in Chicago?
Cross Mobile Systems Integration will be exhibiting at the Industrial Vehicle Technology Expo in Chicago August 21 and 22 at the Stephens Convention Center in Chicago. We’ll have the latest off-highway vehicle electrification technology there for you to try. Visit us at booth #914 to learn more!
Cross Provides Tangible Value for You
Improve Efficiency
Let’s face it, brand new dimensional measurement equipment is expensive! For some products and processes, it’s worth the money but for others, you need a more cost effective option. Cross Precision Measurement can help!
Over the past two years, we’ve been upgrading our Greenville, SC inspection lab. We’ve added new CMMs from LK and video measurement machines from OGP. As a result, we’re almost out of room!
To free up some floor space, we’re selling two of our older CMMs, a Wenzel LH65 and a Wenzel XO10.15.7.
Reduce Risk
Are you monitoring off-gases in your paint area? NFPA 33 states that painting areas must have LEL monitoring “in all exhaust airstreams” and must “automatically shut down operations in the event the filtration system fails.”
Reduce your risk of accidental exposure and stay compliant with Draeger’s Polytron 8700, generally mounted at multiple locations around the paint booth and above it near the ventilation system, is the perfect solution. It can feed data into a Draeger Regard 3000 or directly into your DCS.
Improve Uptime
The new standard zinc-nickel (Zn-Ni) plating for Parker steel tube fittings and adapters worldwide offers premium corrosion resistance, protecting your equipment significantly longer than other commercially available plating technologies.
Ensure more uptime with:
– Extended fitting service life
– Less frequent and easier maintenance
– Reduced downtime
– Decreased corrosion migration to adjacent components
– Reduced warranty claims
– Decreased aesthetic quality concerns
