Articles Tagged with ''gages''

Starrett is offering a comprehensive white paper that discusses why traditional approaches to measurement data collection are inefficient and error-prone without the ability to support IoT/ Industry 4.0. 

I’m a Type-A personality with a sense of urgency to explain everything. Give me a little data, and I will use every statistical tool I can wrap around these rationalizations to help explain an observation. But here is something that I cannot explain: why do we tolerate such poor gages?

The precision length calibration process is very much like any length measurement process, but taken to a significantly higher level. Both processes are composed of the same elements.

In a classic Dilbert cartoon, the “client” proudly claims to Dogbert the consultant that “every three months, an existing customer acquires another product.” Dogbert replies, “what if you don’t count warranty replacements?”

Selecting gages and other types of measuring tools can be challenging. It does not matter if you are an experienced or novice gage user, tool crib manager, lab manager or buyer.