TPT July 2019

ADVANCES IN MEASURING & MARKING TECHNOLOGY

There is no aspect of tubemaking that is not governed by precision: the correspondence between the workpiece and the requirements it is meant to satisfy. While the specialist tasks considered here are not more precision- centred than others in tubemaking practice, measuring and marking do bear responsibility for communicating the most basic information in all of commerce: What is this? How much of it are we talking about? Only after scrupulously accurate measurement – and with the markings that are the pledge of traceability – is a production run of first-quality tubing ready for the next step, whether that be further processing or clearance for delivery to the customer.