Watertight records

Precise, compact and somewhat special. The perfect description of a Hitega product. The company from Gangkofen in Lower Bavaria has established itself as a precision engineering service provider. Various optical, tactile and multisensor measuring systems are essential to the success of the Hitega team. Not without good reason, the company has invested in top-class measuring equipment: In particular, its customers in the healthcare and biomedical engineering sectors require 100% inspections and watertight, fully comprehensive documentation of every single stage of the process.

Precision is our passion. Such is the company‘s claim. That is obvious when taken on a tour of the company. Kaizen charts everywhere. A spotlessly clean production hall. Shiny machining centres representing the state-of-the-art, as far as the eye can see. "At Hitega we work in a field of absolute precision," says Managing Director Michael Herre. "We have made a name for ourselves in the single and small batch part production of high-precision machined components, prototype construction, assembly and fabrication engineering mainly for the biomedical engineering, semiconductor and appliance industries."

Materials such as aluminium, stainless steel, technical plastics and magnesium are processed at Gangkofen. Hitega relies completely on its know-how in the fields of assembly and metrology. As the focus is on assembly and the associated metrology, Hitega has invested strongly in these areas, particularly in its equipment and employee training. „Metrology is part of our core business,“ says Herre. Three multisensor systems supplied by Hexagon Metrology are used for quality assurance at Hitega. Two of the systems have a measurement range of 400 x 400 x 200 mm, the third handles a measurement volume of 600 x 600 x 200 mm. Armed only with callipers and a micrometer, Hitega would not have progressed very . . . . .