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Measuring Microscopes: a View of the Field

Today’s devices combine excellent lenses, high-resolution video, precision X-Y tables and powerful software to make small-part measuring easy and accurate.

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CNC Tech Talks

Refining Tool Length Compensation Usage

Some methods enable offset values to be determined offline.

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Finding Their Moment

Ideas in manufacturing that are not new have become newly relevant.

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Height Gages from the Top

Today’s instruments can produce other useful measurements as well.

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CNC Tech Talks

A Path to Better Productivity

This simple blueprint outlines all that’s needed to boost CNC machine output.

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Gaging for SPC: Now Even Simpler

Data collection for statistical process control can be automated and integrated into your existing inspection process.

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CNC Tech Talks

Simplifying Tricky Sizing Adjustments

When simple arithmetic will not suffice, use custom macro B to calculate more complicated workpiece measurements.

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Gaging Commutators

Measuring and adjusting critical parameters of these motor devices will help make them function most effectively.

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Trial Machining

Programming this operation, when it’s required, can improve productivity.

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Lots of Reasons

Why are companies choosing to manufacture in the United States? There are various reasons, not all of which are under manufacturers’ control. But the list of factors that led one company to open an American plant paints a largely positive picture of the merits of U.S. production.

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Automation

The Secret Robot

A manufacturer struggles over its employees’ potential reaction to automation. The struggle itself says something important.

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Sleepless in the Gage Business

Sometimes you have to review all parts of the measuring process to find the source of a problem.

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