NMS supports Rolls-Royce
8 Apr 2011
"Effective measurement is critical to everything we do at Rolls-Royce. In order to build and operate safe, reliable and cost effective products to the highest standards, we have to understand - quantitatively – how the materials, components, and systems we use behave, ensure that all our components conform to specification and that our products are performing correctly throughout their life. The NMS….supports the company’s ability to deploy best practice in measurement and to improve continuously product and business performance.”
(Pete Loftus, Head of Measurement Capability, Rolls-Royce).
200,000 items of measurement kit are used – from micrometers to engine test facilities. Substantial numbers of staff are employed in measurement – spanning design of measurement methodologies and facilities through to taking measurements in the supply chain.
Following the life cycle of the most critical components (aero engine turbine blades, for example) has indicated that thousands of exacting measurements are made at each stage of design, manufacture, in-service maintenance and, eventually, disposal.
