December 2007 Edition
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Inside This Newsletter
 1) Quality Gaging Tips: What's Your Sine?
 2) Better Production: Pursuing Lean With On-Machine Inspection
 3) Calibration Tips: Frequency
 4) Gratefulness: Reserve
 
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"A few months ago this column described the use of surface plates, observing that a flat surface is the basis for most dimensional measurements. Many workpieces, of course, are neither flat nor straight. In order to measure the angular accuracy or straightness of an angled surface using a surface plate, a sine instrument comes into play..."

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    "
After decades of tinkering with the machined part process, some might consider it nearly impossible to improve on the methodology. Not so, states Michael Angulo, an applications engineer in the Manufacturing Research Division, aeronautics sector at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics (Palmdale, California)..."

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Character Quote of the Month


"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others."


-  Cicero


"Many current-model turning centers have two sets of offsets: Geometry offsets are used to assign program zero during setup, and wear offsets are used to make sizing adjustments during the production run. When users view these offsets on the display screen, they look very similar. Each will have the same number of offsets (32, 99, etc.) and four registers (X, Z, R and T)..."

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Calibration Tips: Frequency



Why have articles on character?

"It takes time to say “thank you.”  And if there is one commodity that is always in high demand, it is time.
            Many people fail to say “thank you,” but not necessarily because they are unaware of the investments others have made
..." 

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Gratefulness: Reserve

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