Mahr Federal has expanded the Application Center at its Providence, RI, headquarters, more than doubling in size the available space. The new center includes a broader range of dimensional gaging and metrology systems equipment to expand application development activity and allow increased customer participation. “Mahr is ‘the Application Specialist’ and this expansion gives us the capacity to domore in amore customer interactive way,” said Pat Nugent, Vice President for Metrology Systems at Mahr Federal. Nugent explained that the Center’s expanded footprint allows the inclusion of a much broader range of equipment than before. “Where we had a formmachine and a surface machine and a contourmachine before,we now have three form machines and four surface and contour machines,” he said. “For example, we had an LD 120 combined roughness and contour system before, but now we also have room for the new, high speed, longer travel LD 260 instrument, andwill soon be getting a new LD 260 3D Aspheric, as well, for measurement and analysis of precision optics.” Also included in the new Application Center will be more precision length products for the calibration of a variety of gage types. The center has an Optimar 100 indicator calibrator as well as the industry benchmark, setting gage block comparator system. “We’ve also set up an area with a large granite surface plate which allows us to work with a whole range of 2D and 3D height gages as well as other fixture and layout equipment. A full complement of the Dimensionair systems for air gage measurement of diameters and tapers is on hand for application development. Our complete range of basic tools such as indicators, calipers, micrometers and snap gages, etc., are also available in the Center,” said Nugent. The new Providence Application Center joins rankswith two other Mahr FederalApplication Centers, one in Los Angeles, and an even larger Center in Cincinnati. The benefits of these centers are two-fold, according to Nugent.First, they act as product showrooms. Butmore importantly, they allow Mahr application engineers to work on customer projects to develop themost efficient, cost-effective gaging solutions for their quality control needs. “Once we have a solution developed, we can show the customer what we have in mind via a net meeting, or they can come to one of our Centers and work with the gaging systems themselves.” For more information contact: Mahr Federal Inc. 1144 Eddy Street Providence RI 02905 800-343-2050 / 401-784-3100 information@mahr.com www.mahr.com