You manufacture a part that must be within design tolerances to work properly, so you need to measure it. It costs to:

Continuing with our analysis of the Greatest Design T

Many measurements assume that a measuring device performs in the same way throughout its measuring range.

What is GD&T, anyway? The Greatest Design Tool ever, or a whole bunch of Gol-Derned Trouble?

All this talk about work in past columns—and the end of summer looming—makes me think about golf. You may not discuss golf and measurement in the same breath, but there are a lot of critical measurements involved in golf.

In last month’s column, I talked about the accuracy funnel, which shows that in a me

In last month’s column, I talked about the format of accuracy specifications for vid

The past few columns about inspection and measurement have led to discussion of different systems for measuring based on images.