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Home » Authors » Steve Harrington BSME, MBA

Steve Harrington BSME, MBA

Steve Harrington, BSME, MBA, is the engineering group manager at Western Gage Corp. He can be reached at [email protected]. 

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Test & Inspection

When Air Became An Instrument

A homage to the work of David B. Kirk. His 1952 paper on pneumatic gaging is a foundational reference for dimensional inspection and measurement quality.
Steve Harrington BSME, MBA
May 28, 2026

For more than seventy years, David B. Kirk’s illustrated lecture, Introduction to Principles of Pneumatic Gaging, existed in an unusual place in the history of manufacturing—quietly influential, widely practiced, yet almost entirely absent from the modern technical record.


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Figure 2 - Standard Air Probe for Measuring Inner Diameters
Measurement

Why Dimensional Air Gages Work So Well

The air gage is unmatched in its ability to gage parts with hard to reach features that in some cases would be impossible with any other method.
Steve Harrington BSME, MBA
March 4, 2024

Air gages work well due to three main reasons: they are body-piloting type, use dual-opposing sensor method, and have a noncontact sensing component. These features are present in most air gage designs, including ID/OD air probe, air ring, and air length gages.



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Managing Temperature Effects in Dimensional Inspection

The effects of temperature are managed with three broad approaches: control, compensate, and match.
Steve Harrington BSME, MBA
August 31, 2020

When do you need to be concerned about the effects of temperature in your inspection process, how significant is it and how do you deal with it? These can be tricky questions to answer. 


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Connecting Rods

Air Gaging: A Rich History in the Automotive Industry

One workhorse in the automotive industry is the bend and twist gage.
Steve Harrington BSME, MBA
February 1, 2019

“Never before have mechanics and manufacturers, and in general has the world of industry, made use of gages and gaging systems as it is doing now..."


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Air Gaging in a Quality Management System

The most important consideration is the assurance of accuracy through calibration.
Steve Harrington BSME, MBA
September 1, 2017

In the quality world, air gaging ranks with micrometers, calipers, comparators, scales, CMMs and many other instruments in that they are all considered measurement and test equipment (M&TE).


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