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The Dirt on Gaging—It’s All Around
The common gage is always in contact with dirt. Accurate air gaging requires proper tooling maintenance and air supply vigilance.
Read MoreLosing Accuracy One Micron at a Time
Most gages on the shop floor provide a specified level of accuracy in conditions for which they were designed. However, it’s critical to think about gaging requirements before putting instruments in tight-tolerance production environments, and possibly having them not meet expectations.
Read MoreTwo Cases of Gage-Improvement Failure
The call is a common one: When tolerances are tight, better gages are needed to improve the measurement process. However, what might seem like a simple fix can sometimes lead to unforeseen issues.
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A Half-Century of Dimensional Gaging
Advances in measurement technologies have both resulted from and contributed to positive changes in a variety of industries.
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The Case for the Perpendicular Indicator
In most cases, a standard or dial indicator is adequate for gaging requirements. However, sometimes the normal orientation of a standard indicator does not work for a particular application. In this situation, a perpendicular indicator might be the better choice.
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Sometimes You Just Can’t Get There from Here
Digital indicators have increased in capability while remaining relatively low in cost. Upgrades include better and larger displays, dynamic features, and increased calculation capabilities, battery life, resolution, and accuracy. They have advanced to the point in which they can almost be characterized as portable bench-gaging amplifiers, but these advances can get you only so far.
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There Is a Sieve in Your Roughness Gage
For analysis purposes, filters are used to separate wavelengths into roughness and waviness. The cutoff value functions like a sieve to separate these wavelengths.
Read MoreGaging Computers: Doing More with Less
Giving operators a single user interface that implements all aspects of gaging helps them become more productive and reduces the potential for error.
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Surface Gaging for Golf: New Faces in Unusual Places
To ensure a manufactured product functions properly, engineered surfaces are often specified as part of the manufacturing process.
Read MoreImplementing Single Minute Exchange Fixtures
The Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED) concept, which improves manufacturing efficiency by reducing or eliminating bottlenecks caused by process change-overs, can be applied to Single Minute Exchange of Fixtures (SMEF) to improve change-over times on various forms of gaging equipment.
Read MoreSMEF—Gaging’s Version of SMED
Single Minute Exchange of Die (SMED) is a lean manufacturing concept that originated in the late ’50s and early ’60s to improve manufacturing efficiency by reducing or eliminating bottlenecks caused by process change-overs.
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“Stylin’” with Your Caliper
The basic caliper is often used for length/diameter measurements, but other caliper styles extend the tool’s advantages to special measurement applications.
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