It is one of those stories that sends shivers down the back that causes sleepless nights and maybe even the gain of a few pounds for us old timers in the dimensional gauging business. We ship a gauge that we know is looking great. It designed to be use on the shop floor, passed all the calibration and repeat testing that specifies for the application. A little while after it gets into the user’s facility and then the call comes.
PMI falls as manufacturers feel the squeeze
17 months or two and a half years - which is it?