Published: January, 1987

ISBN 9780831111496

Overview

Concise yet comprehensive, this highly acclaimed training manual and reference provides the many phases of inspection work and their application to today's manufacturing operations through a practical down-to-earth presentation. Features

• Discusses a range of manual and automatic measuring devices along with their specific functions and the specialized functions involved in their use.
• Analyzes the methods and duties of inspectors.
• Appropriate for use by inspection supervisors, plant managers, quality control engineers and subcontractors.
• Includes SPC and other data analysis methods for manufacturing applications.
• Provides detailed discussions of available measuring and quantitative systems.
• Compares important measuring and gaging systems.

Table of Contents

• The Need and Function of Inspection in Industry
• How Specifications Aid the Inspector
• Tolerances and Allowances
• How Standards Aid the Inspection
• Basic Principles and Techniques of Measurement
• Comparison and Fixed Gages
• Surface Plate Methods and Equipment
• Optical Measuring and Inspection Equipment
• Gaging and Inspection of Screw Threads
• Special Measuring and Inspection Problems
• Gage Checking and Calibration
• Measuring in Millionths
• Automatic Gaging
• Nondestructive Testing