Combination Machines: Balance, Gage, Test, Mark

Machines Engineered to Your Exact Specifications

BTI specializes in building machines engineered to meet your exact requirements and specifications. Our unique ability to combine technologies enables our clients to reduce capital expenditures, increase product quality, and minimize floor space requirements.

BTI can combine balancing, gaging, and crack detection technologies into one single unit. Large conveyors and escapements to connect independent machines aren’t necessary, which eliminates the need to train operators on multiple machines. All of the technology you require is integrated into one seamless, easy-to-use operator interface with unprecedented statistical and diagnostic capability.

Let our team of mechanical, electrical, and software engineers custom design and build a system for you. Contact us today to discuss your needs.

What Gets Combined in Practice

Handling a part is often the most expensive thing a line does to it. Where a part is already located, clamped and spinning, adding a measurement is cheap; adding a separate station is not. BTI regularly combines balancing with:

Dimensional gaging — flatness, parallelism, thickness variation, TIR, bore, run-out
Surface finish and surface roughness measurement
Eddy current crack and surface defect detection
Motor and electrical function testing, including current versus speed and PWM function
Spin testing to operating and overspeed conditions
NVH — noise, vibration and harshness
Blade counting, blade direction and thread presence verification
Part marking — pin stamp, ink, hot stamp and 2D laser
Resonant frequency measurement
Press and assembly operations, including pressing to both a force and a distance

Why One Machine Instead of Several

A combination machine removes a handling step on parts where handling is a risk, holds one datum across every measurement taken, and ties all results to one part serial number. On flight-critical or safety-critical hardware, the single-datum argument usually matters more than the floor space.

Where the Limit Is

Combining operations raises cycle time on the slowest element and concentrates risk in one asset. Whether to combine or separate is a throughput and redundancy decision we work through with you at quotation, not a default.