Smart Thread Measuring Tool

Peco Douwes (now operating under the merged brand Archey as part of the Indutrade Group) is a well-established European industrial distributor and wholesaler with over a century of heritage dating back to 1930. Based in the Netherlands, the company specializes in fastening technology, industrial supplies, assembly tools, and technically advanced components. They supply critical fastening products and smart electrical, pneumatic, and hydraulic tools to industrial businesses to help them optimize their production lines and maintain infrastructure.

In the traditional industrial supply and fastening sector, identifying and ordering the correct specifications for niche nuts, bolts, and thread types has historically been a manual, time-consuming task prone to human error. Technicians, engineers, and hobbyists often had to rely on physical measuring calipers or exhaustive paper catalogs to verify exact thread pitches and sizes, slowing down procurement and operations. Peco Douwes wanted to address this friction but faced the barrier of working with a constrained initial budget. They needed a way to validate whether a mobile digital utility could successfully solve this problem without over-investing in a massive, unproven corporate platform from day one.

Lizard Global engineered a highly efficient, custom Minimum Viable Product (MVP) in the form of a mobile application available on iOS and Android. The application delivers an innovative, on-the-spot digital measuring tool that allows users to accurately gauge the dimensions, pitch, and types of various industrial nuts and bolts directly through their mobile screens. Built with an agile framework and a highly scalable tech stack, the app streamlined a complex measurement process into an intuitive digital experience. Despite the niche nature of the tool, its pinpoint utility and clean user interface caused it to go viral within both B2B professional circles and the broader consumer hobbyist community.