Custom Solutions
One way in which Starrett stands out from other precision tool providers is our willingness to work directly with customers to design and manufacture custom tools for applications that standard products cannot perform.
Over 50 years, we have provided solutions to industries including energy, aerospace, automotive, food packaging, high-technology plastics, medical components, and to NASA and other government agencies.
After we determine that no 'off-the-shelf" product is applicable, our engineers begin a dialog with the company’s staff to develop a tool for the specific task -- a process to understand the application in detail and evaluate various approaches.
When a solution is found that meets the requirements to the full satisfaction of our customer. Then, through design, prototype machining and testing, the final product specification is completed.
From Problem to Innovation to Solution
The resulting special product usually involves highly specialized fixturing combined with a Starrett measuring tool component -- most often an electronic or dial indicator head or a micrometer head.
Some solutions have included contributions from parts of Starrett beyond the Athol, MA Special Gage Division location -- Webber Gage in Ohio, Tru-Stone Granite in Minnesota or Kinemetric Engineering in California.
At the conclusion of the process, something that could not be measured is measured, and a difficult problem is transformed into an innovative, often elegant solution. |