ON THE SHOP FLOORS, THE INCH RULES.

For years, we've been taught that the metric system is the perfect base-10 system, that it will surely become the world standard for measurement. It may sound great in a math classroom, but on the shopfloor metric does not "add up" to the inch scale.

Quality assurance is attained by making reliable measurements in order to confirm that a product is within a print specification. To make reliable measurements, a company needs to make choices as to which measurement equipment to purchase. Standard (inch-scale) instruments give a company more choices at a lower cost. In mos