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Form/co-ordinate, optical and vision instrumentation
News Release from: OGP UK
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 01 August 2003
Marketing deal boosts measuring arm
OGP (UK) has formed a strategic alliance involving sales, support and product development for the award-winning Polar 3D measuring arm with DEA Brown and Sharpe.
OGP (UK) has formed a strategic alliance involving sales, support and product development for the award-winning Polar 3D measuring arm with DEA Brown and Sharpe Under the agreement, OGP UK will continue to build and further develop the Polar arm at its technical centre in Hatton as part of the product evolution programme put together by managing director Andrew Fulton following the winning of a four-year Government funded research and development grant
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 31 May 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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This development will be carried out in conjunction with DEA Brown and Sharpe in order to take full advantage of market conditions and customer feedback.
Said Andrew Fulton: "This will be a very close working arrangement between our two companies for the UK market which will also include seamless warranty and support for Polar.
With DEA Brown and Sharpe marketing the product, OGP UK will be able to focus on noncontact measurement technology as a core business".
By taking on the sales, service and support of Polar, the DEA Brown and Sharpe division of Hexagon Metrology will fully integrate the measuring arm into its product portfolio of co-ordinate measuring machines, gauges and associated inspection equipment.
It has already interfaced its PC-DMIS operational software into the Polar product which will provide total associativity across its 3D measuring equipment range.
According to David Brown General Manager of UK sales for DEA Brown and Sharpe: "We have fully investigated the measuring arm market and found that Polar has a distinct on-site advantage for users with its ability to be calibrated at any time against a datum artefact.
This capability gives total confidence in its use and the measuring results gained.
Now with PC-DMIS software it provides a very simple to use measuring package that has the largest support infrastructure in the UK".
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