We qualify high-value parts in aerospace, power generation and medical — and turn the data into intelligence that delivers less scrap, better yield, faster turnaround and decisions you can defend.
At AddQual. We plan, measure and qualify your parts in our Derby facility, as a service.
On your site. We deploy our software, and our engineers work alongside your team to plan the requirement, measure accurately and get more from every result.
Working with leading aero engine and gas turbine manufacturers, their suppliers and repair shops across the UK, Europe and North America.
Most people come to us with one of these problems. Pick the group that fits and see how we help.
The problem: parts keep failing on size or shape, but the measurements you have don't show where it is going wrong.
How we help: we measure the whole part in 3D and show exactly where and by how much it differs from the design, so the cause becomes visible.
The problem: bad parts reach the next stage, or good parts sit waiting for someone to decide.
How we help: accredited inspection plus clear, agreed pass-or-fail rules, so decisions are consistent and defensible.
The problem: demand has grown; your inspection people and machines can't keep up.
How we help: we take the measurement work on for you, or automate your own cells so they run longer with less attention.
The problem: parts queue for measurement, reports take days, and the whole line waits.
How we help: faster scanning, automated part handling, and reports produced from the measurement itself rather than typed up afterwards.
The problem: measurements are taken but not kept, or kept somewhere nobody can use.
How we help: we capture results where the measuring happens, tied to the part they came from, ready to use.
The problem: spreadsheets and reports pile up. Nobody has time to work out what they are telling you.
How we help: we turn measurements into trends and comparisons that answer a question, such as which feature drifts first, and on which machine.
The problem: two gauges, two operators or two sites give different answers, so nobody trusts any of them.
How we help: measurement system studies (known as Gauge R&R) prove how repeatable your measurements are, and what to fix if they aren't.
The problem: requirements keep changing, the work goes round again, and nobody can say when it is done. It happens because no inspection plan was agreed at the start, so there is nothing for engineering, quality and your customer to sign off against.
How we help: we write the inspection plan first — what will be measured, against which requirement, and what counts as a pass — and get every stakeholder to agree it before measuring starts. Our ATLASQual software (The Map of Work, it plans the inspection work) then builds and runs that plan, so the agreed requirement is what gets measured.
The problem: steps get skipped, done out of order, or done differently depending on who is on shift.
How we help: our software walks people through each step in order and records what was actually done.
The problem: you know a job takes too long, but not which step is eating the hours.
How we help: every step is timed automatically, so the real bottleneck shows itself instead of being argued about.
The problem: still on paper and spreadsheets, and every attempt to digitise it has stalled.
How we help: we start with the one step that hurts most, capture that properly, and build out from there.
The problem: parts wait for an engineer to read results and sign them off.
How we help: your own acceptance rules, written into the software, handle the routine cases instantly. Engineers spend their time on the exceptions.
The problem: requirements keep changing, the work goes round again, and nobody can say when it is done. It happens because no inspection plan was agreed at the start, so there is nothing for engineering, quality and your customer to sign off against.
How we help: we write the inspection plan first — what will be measured, against which requirement, and what counts as a pass — and get every stakeholder to agree it before measuring starts. Our ATLASQual software (The Map of Work, it plans the inspection work) then builds and runs that plan, so the agreed requirement is what gets measured.
The problem: the job takes longer than it should, and the measurements it produces stop when it finishes. Nobody downstream — planning, engineering, commercial — ever sees them, so the same questions get asked again on the next job.
How we help: we measure how the process actually runs, take out the steps that aren’t earning their place, and connect what is captured to the people who need it further down the business, so one measurement does more than one job.
Measurement done for you, digital work that makes the process flow, or engineers alongside your team driving scrap and rework down.
Accredited measurement of high-value parts, in our Derby facility or alongside your team. First article inspection (proving the first part off a new process matches the drawing), qualification programmes, and measurement you can defend in an audit.
What we measureWork that is written down twice, a process that isn’t followed the way it’s written, hours nobody can account for. We fix how the work flows first, then scale it with our MiDAS software when it has proved itself. Start with one process.
How we improve the flowScrap and rework are the price of a process you can’t see. We measure what is really happening to your parts, show where the process drifts, and leave you with a capability you can repeat — from new part introduction through to repair.
How we build capabilityMost of that information is never used. It is written on a form, filed, and forgotten — while the same problems come back next month.
AddQual exists to change that. We help manufacturers and repair organisations measure parts accurately, trust the numbers, and use them to make faster, better decisions.
We start with what you are trying to achieve, not with what we sell. Sometimes that means a small fix. Sometimes it means a bigger change. Either way we will tell you honestly what will work — and what won't.
More about us
Measurements you can trust, records that hold up under audit, and results your customers accept first time.
Qualification and sign-off that take hours rather than weeks, because the data arrives complete and the routine decisions are already made.
More work through the same people and the same machines — the cheapest capacity you will ever add.
Recognise one of these? Tell us about it — a 30-minute conversation is usually enough for us to say whether we can help.
We have a measurement floor, a software team and engineers who work on customers' sites. That mix is the point: the software is built by the people who do the measuring.
NADCAP accredited and AS9100 certified. Most of our work still arrives by word of mouth, which we take as the compliment it is.
Meet the team
Describe the part, the process or the problem. We will tell you honestly whether we can help, and what we would do first. No sales sequence.
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