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The surface plate serves as a baseline, a reference point, or a datum point for linear measurement and dimensional inspection of objects, mechanical parts, and industrial parts. It is commonly used in an inspection lab of a manufacturing site. It is a must for any metrology laboratory to have this tool that is used for … Read more

Do you want to check how straight or flat a surface is in either vertical (plumb) or horizontal (level) planes? Also maybe you’ve been asked to test both but are unsure where to start? Take it easy because this article is about to discuss being plumb vs. being level. And hopefully, it will help shed some … Read more

Do you want to check how square a block is but are not sure what squareness exactly is? Maybe, you also want to know how to express the degree of squareness in number. Aside from that, you are wondering whether there is something exist a perfect square. We will be discussing about them all here. … Read more

Tolerance and allowance may be frequently understood as the same thing for some people. This is not weird because these two terms have a great relation in defining the limits of a dimension. Basically, tolerance and allowance are used to describe the limits of an object dimension so that the dimension is acceptable for mechanical … Read more

Some of the products that we recommend (sewer camera, underground wire locator, digital micrometer, Elcometer 311-B paint thickness meter, digital caliper, etc), often come with an IP rating. If you find them with codes such as IP64, IP65, IP67, it’s IP rating. For the easiest product example, you could check the Mitutoyo 293-340-30 that has … Read more

Being a service technician for an underground utility system is challenging. But if you love your work, having the appropriate devices and equipment in your arsenal should be your priority. The human eye cannot see anything below the earth’s surface. That is not a problem if you have the right tools. Underground has a system … Read more

Sometimes, it’s not easy to differentiate between squareness, perpendicularity, and parallelism. They are almost the same and have a close correlation. Even, squareness and perpendicularity are frequently used interchangeably while in fact, they are actually different. On this great occasion, we are glad to present an article that covers the explanation of these terms. Differences … Read more

Both repeatability and reproducibility are important in measurement and research. If you are the operator of a particular precision measuring instrument, you have to know these two terms. Your instrument has to be repeatable. It means you take several readings and you get the same readings. If there is a variation, then you have to … Read more

Maybe, you need to check how square an object is but are not sure how to do that. If you need an object to be square, accurate and uniform, it is essential to know how this can be checked and even measured accurately. This article will inform you briefly on how to measure squareness with … Read more