API and Mitutoyo Corporation have announced a partnership to distribute API’s portable dimensional metrology equipment throughout Mitutoyo’s worldwide network.
In Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) there has been a long-standing conflict between the worlds of specification and measurement. The goal of specification is to ensure that components will function; the goal of measurement is to ensure that manufactured components meet those functional requirements.
Manufacturers must ask a lot of their quality data collection systems. Ideally, these systems should not only capture quality data while a product or service is manufactured, assembled and installed, but they should also aid in pre-production preparation.
The virtual conference will showcase leading OEMs discussing simulation, SPC, tolerance analysis, and supplier quality assurance and bring together professionals from manufacturers across the globe in order to discuss their successes in dimensional management and DCS solutions to reduce scrap, rework, non-conformance, and improve efficiency.
Cylindrical ring gages have a number of inspection purposes. They are used as Go/No-Go gages to inspect the outside diameter of a shaft or rod. They are masters for dial bore gages, internal micrometers and coordinate measuring machines (CMMs).