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Wringing gage blocks is the process of assembling gage blocks together end-to-end to achieve a specific measurement.

Today, test, measurement and inspection tools operate closer to production, which requires that they be more flexible, more portable and more rugged.

"In a company valued by its owners for its ability to generate cash, training is often seen as an expensive waste of capital," wrote one respondent to Quality Online's training survey.

At Delphi Automotive's Chassis Div. plant (Sandusky, OH), the inspection of automotive wheel spindle bearings used to be a slow and costly process.

Experts agree that the wellspring of a healthy economy is productivity growth. It's what fueled the economic boom of the late 1990s.

No one doubts the enormous benefits that open-architecture computing holds for quality control systems and continuous improvement programs.

For more than 50 years, quality control practitioners have relied upon ultrasonic techniques as a way to nondestructively gage the thickness of manufacturing materials.

In case you haven't looked lately, machine vision technology has done a lot of growing up since the first systems arrived on the scene some 30 years ago.

Ciceri Smith was a quality-driven manufacturer. He made wire mesh at his plant in Edinburgh, Scotland, and he wanted to improve quality by providing his workers with a micrometer that they could easily read.

Portable hardness testers have finally come into their own within the past few years.