Materials
In the Materials Industry, dimensional measurement can yield much knowledge of the properties of materials including wear characteristics, compressibility, and coefficient of thermal expansion. Customers such as ASML, Corning, Alcoa, LenovoEMC, Optimax, IBM, 3M Corporation, and NASA use Pratt & Whitney laser-based interferometers in measuring foil, film, and mesh thickness as well as other substrates ranging from fractions of a nanometer to several micrometers in thickness.

Applications

• Films
• Meshes
• Foils 
• Specialty Composites
• Textiles
• Optical Components
• Optical Glass (Synthetic/Fused Silica, Calcium Fluoride)
• Coating Thickness
• Coating Thickness Standards 
• Fiber Optics
• Surface Features

Processes

• Gaging Wear
• Compressibility / Elasticity  
• Manufacturing
• Quality Control / Testing
• Design and Engineering 

Pratt & Whitney Measurement Systems
Pratt & Whitney Measurement Systems is a global supplier of ultra-precision metrology instruments, inspection gaging systems, and length measuring machines. Our comparator instruments incorporate the latest in laser and sensor technology allowing for fast and accurate measurements. Industry applications span across a wide range including, but not limited to: aerospace components, automotive parts, medical devices, thin film materials, roller bearings (tapered, cylindrical, spherical, needle), transducers, optical components, semiconductor devices, gear-spline-thread assemblies.

Calibration laboratory applications include: gage blocks, internal and external threads, national pipe threads (NPT), cylindrical plugs, pin gages, ring gages, dial / test indicators, length standards, taper gages, micrometers, calipers, snap gages, disc masters, API gages, thread wires, bore gauges, and your precision parts. Accredited by A2LA to ISO/IEC 17025:2005 (cert# 2629.01).