The Conoptica team are attending JIMTOF Japan 2024 from 5-10 November. We would like to invite you to join us for a live demonstration of our instruments! This is a brilliant way for you to ask technical questions, get to know us, and see how our systems operate. Send us a message below with a...Continue Reading

The Conoptica team are attending IMTS 2024 from 9-14 September. We would like to invite you to join us for a live demonstration of our instruments! This is a brilliant way for you to ask technical questions, get to know us, and see how our systems operate. Send us a message below with a suitable...Continue Reading

Let’s start with a guessing game. Do you know how many parts the average car contains? Unless you’re an avid automobile enthusiast (or, perhaps, a trivia game devotee) you probably don’t, so here’s the answer: around 30,000 if you count right down to the last nuts and bolts. An engine alone has about 1,800 separate...Continue Reading

When it comes vertical industries, arguably few are more visible and familiar to most of us than consumer electronics. Our appetite for such products appears to be endless. As a result the market continues to expand. According to Reports Insights[1], it was valued at USD 740.79 billion in 2022, with a CAGR of 4.62% forecast...Continue Reading

As a reader of these blogs, you’ll probably know that in the world of measurement we care a great deal about terms like accuracy and precision. So, you’ll have to forgive the following, unvalidated (and thus somewhat out-of-character) claim. It’s this: no one likes visiting the dentist. Seriously. There’s enough anecdotal evidence to suggest that...Continue Reading

In our recent series, we’ve devoted a blog to explaining and understanding each of the key terms used in measurement technology (terms like true value, accuracy, precision, etc.) In this final instalment, we’ll investigate the term “tolerance”. Unlikely a way as it sounds to start a blog about a key aspect of measurement systems, the...Continue Reading

Think of healthcare and the medical industry and three words will likely spring quickly to mind as being of foremost importance: precision, quality, and safety. A fourth term, while perhaps less immediately obvious to the layman, underpins them all: accurate measurement. It applies especially to the production of medical instruments. Stethoscopes; ophthalmoscopes, needles, speculums; most...Continue Reading

Building cars is a complex process in which the role of machine tooling is central. Let’s take a closer look at how and why that’s the case. Broadly, automotive manufacturing involves seven steps. These are: Obtaining and then working/reworking the raw materials from which the car is madeThe design (body and engineering) of the carThe...Continue Reading

We started this series with a close look at the meanings of traceability and true value. The definition of the latter touched on the concept of “accuracy”, but which nevertheless, as we explained, is not quite the same thing. So now, let’s dig a little deeper into what we mean by accuracy in the context...Continue Reading

What is true value? It is defined as the actual physical weight/length/width or other measurable parameter of a specific object – for example, the length of a piece of string or the weight of a rock[1]. All objects have a true value because all have exact properties that can (in theory) be measured. Thus, when...Continue Reading