We’ve all heard it before. Someone says, “If you want my opinion...” and they give it to you even after you’ve told them you don’t want it.

Inspection of manufactured goods has increasingly become standard practice to ensure products meet more and more demanding specifications.

Michigan-based Nikon Metrology will help enhance Team Penske’s manufacturing process of its racecars competing in NASCAR.

The term ‘proficiency testing’ is one that every accredited calibration laboratory is quite familiar with. In basic terms it refers to a method of evaluating how well a laboratory is doing a particular calibration with respect to its claimed measurement uncertainty and how it fares with other participants.

It’s not every day that a company specializing in software solutions for tolerance analysis gets to supply an international project to build the world’s largest tokamak.

As the new year brings new budgets, the reality of muted economic growth for 2017 becomes clear when the subject of corporate spending arises.

As part tolerances tighten, both form and surface finish have a bigger influence on the size and function of the product. And with pressures on manufacturing to be more productive, it is no longer viable for checks of surface or form to be performed on a measuring system in a quality room.

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.

Zeiss Industrial Metrology opens a new facility in Wixom, MI, dedicated to the latest developments for the process chain in car body metrology and automated inspection.

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.