Promotions, new hires, distributors

Renishaw Inc. appointed Denis Zayia president of U.S. operations. Zayia replaces Howard Salt, who, while turning over the responsibilities of day-to-day operations, will continue to provide valuable service to Renishaw as senior business manager encoder systems.

Big Kaiser Precision Tooling bolstered its sales and support staff.

Paul Lewis, promoted to Northeast district manager for the Mid-Atlantic and New England.

Richard Bevers, hired as Southeast district manager, responsible for North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and Alabama.

Tim Smith, named sales engineer for the Southeast district, responsible for Alabama and Georgia.

Jim Mayer, hired to support the tool management system (TMS) department as sales manager.

Mike Jones, hired as sales engineer Mid-Atlantic, overseeing Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware.

Mike Jones

MRP earns 2019 Medtronic Supplier Excellence Award

Minnesota Rubber and Plastics (MRP) received Medtronic’s 2019 Supplier Excellence Award, recognizing its commitment to Medtronic’s Global Supplier Standards in delivering superior and balanced performance in quality, service, cost, innovation, and delivery. MRP was one of 10 companies from Medtronic’s base of more than 48,000 direct and indirect suppliers to receive the award.

MRP’s medical business supports applications within drug delivery, cardiovascular, diagnostic, surgical, and orthopedic markets. In addition to silicone, rubber, and thermoplastic components, MRP provides medical manufacturers with product design and engineering, development, DFM, and advanced materials science services.

CMM Measurement Services Department is operational

At its North American Tech Center near Detroit, Michigan, LK Metrology’s CMM Measurement Services Department performs contract dimensional inspection.

CMMs

• Up to 2.5m x 2m (98" x 78") measurement volumes
• LK Metrology ScanTek5 CMM
• LK Altera M CMM
• LK Altera C CMM
• Renishaw SP25M scanning probes
• REVO2 5-axis multi-sensor system
• SP80 high-accuracy scanning head
• Nikon Metrology L100, LC 15Dx laser scanners

Software

• LK Metrology Camio
• Renishaw Metrology Modus
• Nikon Metrology Focus
• Nikon Metrology CMM-Manager
• InnovMetric Polyworks | Inspector

CMM measurement services

• Dimensional inspection for complex geometries, freeform surfaces, thin-walled parts, 2D/3D profiles, reverse engineering, non-contact scanning

Quality reports

• Full dimensional inspection
• First article inspection (FAI)
• Series inspection
• Analysis and investigation
• Process capability studies
• Statistical process control (SPC)