Articles Tagged with ''calibration''

Exova Group plc, the global testing, calibration and advisory services provider, acquired Insight NDT Limited (Insight), a South Yorkshire-based non-destructive testing (NDT) and radiographic inspection business.

If you’re having problems with thread measurements but the answers you’re getting from your usual sources aren’t solving them, it’s natural that you would try and get some unbiased advice from a specialist.

Calibration is not just about having stickers on your equipment with dates that say everything is okay.

One of the questions our applications team is most commonly asked is “Why aren’t my systems producing the exact same results?”

Every industry has a jargon of its own and dimensional metrology is no different. The reason is ease of verbal communication, but that communication can be confusing at times for the uninitiated.

In the dimensional metrology field, gage blocks are the universally used physical standards to which most linear dimensions are compared directly or indirectly. 

It’s time to calibrate your way to better quality. 

When things go off the rails quality professionals start a root cause analysis routine to determine what went wrong and why. 

With a background in international management and more than 15 years’ experience in the testing industry, Ronan Harkin joins Exova from LINK Engineering Company.

These two choices for bore measurement come into play when close tolerances are the order of the day and speedy, repeatable measurements are required in a production environment. Keeping these requirements in mind, instrument makers usually offer options such as hard chromed bodies or carbide pads and contacts where needed to keep wear at a minimum.