Mitutoyo America Corporation announced it has received a Ford Motor Company World Excellence Award. The award was one of sixty World Excellence Awards presented to Fordís top global suppliers for their performance in 2005. Tsuyoshi Yamamura, president, Mitutoyo America Corp., accepted the award in a ceremony held at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, on May 3, 2006.
The World Excellence Awards recognize suppliers who not only achieve highest levels of cost, quality, and delivery, but who also embrace the vision to build on Fordís legacy of driving innovation to new heights. Mitutoyo’s award was for Recognition of Achievement in New Consumer-Focused Technology.
ìOur World Excellence Award-winning suppliers are integral to our ability to address the needs of customers today and tomorrow,” said Thomas K. Brown, senior vice president, Ford Global Purchasing. “We are grateful for their ceaseless concentration on delivering value.”
Yamamura said that ,“We at Mitutoyo are gratified to have achieved this level of recognition from one of the worldís largest automakers. Over the past year, as a company, we have worked diligently to supply Ford Motor Company with the most advanced form measurement technology. The result was the selection of our SV-M3000 CNC form measuring machine by Ford for installation in multiple North American manufacturing facilities. Partnering with the staff at Ford in identifying this metrology solution was the culmination of a team effort within the Mitutoyo organization.,”
Initial Ford SV-M3000 applications will be in powertrain components, replacing manual measurement in cylinder head manufacturing cells. Eventually this technology is also expected to be applied in block, crank, and cylinder manufacturing cells.
Mitutoyo Corporation is the worldís largest provider of measurement and inspection solutions offering the most complete selection of machines, sensors, systems, and services with a line encompassing CMMs (Coordinate Measuring Machines), vision, form and finish measuring machines as well as precision tools and instruments and metrology data management software.
Mitutoyo’s nationwide network of Metrology Centers and support operations provides application, calibration, service, repair, and educational programs to ensure that its 6,000-plus metrology products will deliver measurement solutions for customers throughout their lifetime. To learn more contact Mitutoyo America Corporation at (630) 820-9666, info@mitutoyo.com, or [www.mitutoyo.com].
