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Tektronix announced the opening of their new service facility in Salt Lake City, UT.

High demand for machines in manufacturing sectors ranging from auto making to packaging will push the industrial machinery market to new heights during the next five years.

Precision is key for military applications.

Industrial robots have become part of our everyday life.

A lot of people play fast and loose with the frequency of calibration on their gages, masters and instruments.

There are numerous applications for helium, automatic leak test systems (ALTs) in the automotive components assembly process.

In my last column I outlined the process for preparing a shipment of plug gages that are being sent to an outside laboratory for calibration.

For more than 50 years, Distance Gain Size (DGS) inspections have been performed for the code compliant flaw detection and sizing of welds across oil and gas, power generation and general fabrication applications. They are also used to inspect tubes, pipes, pressure vessels, containers and pumps.

My lab does a lot of fixed limit gage calibration and I sometimes wonder how the folks who deal with it on a day-to-day basis cope with it all.