Quality Comes To The ‘Surface’ At Kingsbury

As a company, Kingsbury has more than 60 years of experience in supplying highly efficient and cost-effective machine tools and delivering first-class levels of support. Since its launch, they have applied Kingsbury’s time-honored levels of customer care to their Grinding Division.

Kingsbury Grinding Division Application Engineer, Kevin Ling explained: “When demonstrating the effectiveness of our machine tools and showing the complexity of the components we can develop, establishing surface finish is a priority. Not only for customer compliance but also to determine dressing parameters and the optimum grinding wheel specification for performance. The purchase of our advanced ACCRETECH instrument provides us with the ability to quickly measure surface roughness with excellent levels of precision. In addition to other uses, our HANDYSURF⁺ is employed to prove the exceptional standards of surface finish that our grinding machines are able to achieve and to provide our customers with confidence. Also, our ACCRETECH equipment is used to guarantee that our machines continue to deliver the expected financial return to our customers as we assist in the development of new processes and product lines. We work closely onsite with engineering teams across many industries, as the HANDYSURF⁺ instrument is portable, it allows for quick and easy application in a live production environment.”

ACCRETECH offers a comprehensive range of high-quality instruments for the use of measuring surface characteristics. The company’s products meet a wide variety of requirements regarding resolution, precision, component size, and application. Although the HANDYSURF⁺, as purchased by Kingsbury’s Grinding Division, is regarded as

ACCRETECH’s entry-level surface measuring product, the robust, portable instrument boasts a wide range of features that are normally found only in more expensive, static instruments.

Building on the global success of the company’s previous HANDYSURF instrument, ACCRETECH’s HANDYSURF⁺ features an ergonomic design, a simple operating system, and intuitive software. Also, whereas the original HANDYSURF model required users to set a narrow range when measuring with a high resolution, the new, user-friendly HANDYSURF⁺ dispenses with this requirement. The advanced new instrument has a generous Z direction measuring range of 370 µm, which is the widest in its class and achieves a resolution as high as 0.0007 µm over its entire range.

Given the less than perfect environments the robust HANDYSURF⁺ is able to be used in, the instrument’s 2.4 inch color LCD has significantly improved the visibility of its readings. In addition, the provision of clear, graphic representations of measurement results enables on-site verification with the use of various parameters and waveforms.

Simple 6 buttons operation and newly developed UI enable intuitive operation and trouble-free access to multiple analysis functions, whilst waveform types can be easily changed by using a screen-located icon. An enlargement function and an automatic Go/No-Go judgment function, established by setting upper and lower limits, are easily accessible. Despite its relatively compact size and portable nature, the HANDYSURF⁺ is capable of a wide variety of analysis modes, including BAC, ADC, peak-count, and motif analysis. A choice of three optional drive units allows potential customers to choose a HANDYSURF⁺ model according to their individual needs. Standards equipment includes a strong carrying case, calibration Plate, user’s Guide / Quick Reference, amplifier, tracing driver, pickup, cables, calibration table, and CD-ROM.

If required, by using the supplied USB cable or optional USB memory, inspection certificates can be created from measurement results. Alternatively, results stored on the HANDYSURF⁺’s internal memory can be downloaded to a PC as a text file.