Aristotle made the observation that people find it easiest to remember three things.

Some folks select the calibration source based on convenience. They reason that the best choice for them is the lab down the street or around the corner because they don’t have to ship their stuff any distance to get it done.

As applications continue to demand more of engineering materials and as the stakes for life expectancy of finished products continue to rise, testing is anticipated to play an ever more important role in product development and quality control processes.

The ‘scope’ of an accredited laboratory is a list of the different items the accrediting agency has determined they are capable of calibrating.

Multisensor coordinate measuring machines that combine vision, touch and laser sensors have been used in manufacturing quality control for nearly 20 years.

The use of the go/no-go fixed limit gage is considered one of the simplest forms of pass/fail attribute inspection.

If your company intends on using an outside source for your calibration work, sooner or later a choice has to be made from a short list of candidates.

Assuring the quality of a measurement is crucial. In order to achieve the finest measurement and thereby the correct decision based upon it, calibration of equipment both before and after use is essential.

Exova appointed Prabir Chaudhury as global technical director designate for metal technology and Chris Harwood as technical director of aerospace, Americas.

A friend in the industry contacted me recently for suggestions on dealing with a request from a customer of their calibration service requesting the results of vision tests on their lab people.