Key Equipment List
- Suite of environmentally controlled laboratories
- Zeiss UMC 850 CMM
- Hewlett Packard laser interferometer system
- Hilger-Watts gauge block interferometer
- Zeiss UMC600 Single Axis Measuring Machine
- Tesa gauge block comparator
- Federal long gauge block comparator
- Zeiss 'OPAL' Single Axis Measuring Machine
- Reference sets of angle gauges
- Ball bar standards
- Sphere plate standards
Capabilities
List of instruments calibrated by NML:
- Angle gauges, precision
- Angle plates, box angle plates
- Autocollimator and angle dekkors
- Balls
- Clinometers
- Cylindrical setting standards
- Dial gauges, lever
- Dial gauges, plunger
- Gauge block accessories
- Gauge block comparators
- Gauge blocks (by comparison)
- Gauge blocks (by interferometry)
- Graticules
- Indexing tables
- Length bar accessories
- Length bars
- Levels, electronic
- Levels, spirit
- Measuring machines, horizontal and vertical
- Measuring Tapes
- Micrometers, depth
- Micrometers, external
- Micrometers, height setting
- Micrometers, height setting riser blocks
- Micrometers, internal
- Optical flats
- Optical parallels
- Parallels, engineers
- Plain gap gauges, parallel
- Plain plug gauges, parallel
- Plain plug gauges, taper
- Plain ring gauges, parallel
- Plain ring gauges, taper
- Plain setting rings, parallel
- Polygons
- Receiver & position gauges, jigs, fixtures
- Rotary tables and dividing heads
- Scales, precision linear
- Screw plug gauges, parallel
- Screw ring gauges, parallel
- Sine bars, centres, tables
- Sine tables, compound
- Squares, blade
- Squares, block
- Squares, cylindrical
- Stage micrometers
- Steel rule, engineers
- Step gauges
- Straightedges
- Surface plates & tables
- Tapes
- Thread diameter measuring machines
- Thread measuring cylinders
- Vee blocks
- Vernier gauges, calliper
- Vernier gauges, depth
- Vernier gauges, height
| Measurement |
Range |
Best Measurement Uncertainty (sample) |
| Length |
0 – 30 m |
± 0.005 µm |
| Angle |
0 – 360 degrees |
30 secs |
| CMM |
600 X 850 X 1200mm |
2.8 + L/250 um (L in mm) |
Contact:
Rory Hanrahan
NSAI National Metrology Laboratory,
Glasnevin,
Dublin 9 Ireland
T +353 1 808 2611
F + 353 1 808 2603
E
rory.hanrahan@nsai.ie
Jim O Donnell
NSAI National Metrology Laboratory,
Glasnevin,
Dublin 9, Ireland
T +353 1 808 2613
F +353 1 808 2603
E:
jim.odonnell@nsai.ie