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The Conoptica team are attending Wire Dusseldorf 2024 from 15-19 April. 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 Wire Mexico 2024 in Monterrey from 30 January – 1 February. 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...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

Find out with Kjell Johnsen from Conoptica at the IWM conference, ‘Energy Innovates – Growth Through Sustainability’, 14th-15th November, in Birmingham, UK. Waste is endemic to production processes – including those for wire and cables. Reducing this waste is a key metric to help boost sustainability. And, it also reduces costs and helps protect margins...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

In this blog, part of our series on the basics of measurement, we’re going to look at “precision”. It’s one of those words that we use in everyday life without thinking twice about its meaning. But in the world of measurement and measurement systems, perhaps not surprisingly. We must be a lot more careful. In...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

This week saw EUSPEN’s annual conference take place in Copenhagen. If you’re not already familiar with that organization, EUSPEN is a community of influencers drawn from industrialists, researchers, and other authorities. It aims to advance the arts, sciences and technology in ways related to precision engineering, micro-engineering and nanotechnology. The conference focused on a variety of...Continue Reading