Measuring surface roughness in turned parts

Traditionally, cylinder bores surfaces in cars were like the Himalayas lots of peaks and troughs. When piston rings went up and down, this would slice the tops of these off, so manufacturers made the bores tight to pre-empt this. Consequently, in the past motorists need to “run-in” their engine, limiting its speed for the first

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Why we need a culture change in data collection

According to software expert TechJury, each person on Earth created 1.7 MB of data every second in 2020. Thanks to smartphones and tablets making the everyday digital, the volume of data collected has skyrocketed so, when will the same be universally true in manufacturing? Here Mike John, technical director of metrology provider The Sempre Group,

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