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It is often said that metrology is a method of communication and when you think about it, that’s a pretty accurate way to explain its purpose.

Quality engineers have a number of different technologies and approaches available today, each having their own strengths, to perform the measurement and inspection required to meet tight part tolerances and increasingly more stringent QC requirements.

The frame grabber is an add-in computer peripheral board designed to capture one or more still frames from a video input source, typically a camera.

With more man-hours being spent on programming work, differences in worker-created measurement programs, and inefficient programs being created due to proficiency issues, the industry has moved from 2-D drawings to 3-D annotated models.

Some folks select the calibration source based on convenience. They reason that the best choice for them is the lab down the street or around the corner because they don’t have to ship their stuff any distance to get it done.

"In the remanufacturing business, you can take apart a transmission, clean it, replace all the soft parts and get it back to the customer when they need a new part.”

Manual inspection of a 75-ton turbine is a time consuming, difficult task that takes teams of workers up to two weeks, requires high levels of precision and is prone to human error.

The conference brought together more than 125 scientists from around the world at the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine in La Jolla, Calif.

With its long range of motion, the digital height gage can be thought of as a giant caliper, but one with the accuracy of a much more sophisticated benchtop gaging system.

The ‘scope’ of an accredited laboratory is a list of the different items the accrediting agency has determined they are capable of calibrating.