Browse through any coordinate measuring machine (CMM) or machine tool stylus catalog, and you’ll see an array of available materials from which to choose.
How deep does the rabbit hole go? Don’t ask Alice—consult a depth gage! Whether a hole is three microns deep or three meters, there are a variety of simple measuring options readily available.
Quality engineers have a number of different technologies and approaches available today, each having their own strengths, to perform the measurement and inspection required to meet tight part tolerances and increasingly more stringent QC requirements.
While manufacturers have applied model-based definition to product definition for some time, they have only recently applied it as a quality assurance process.
With more man-hours being spent on programming work, differences in worker-created measurement programs, and inefficient programs being created due to proficiency issues, the industry has moved from 2-D drawings to 3-D annotated models.