# Instruments

Manufacturing reference articles in Instruments.

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- [Articulated-arm measuring machines](https://planar.so/wiki/inspection/instruments/articulated-arm-measuring-machines.md): Use portable coordinate measurement with explicit probe, alignment, performance-test, environment, and task-specific uncertainty boundaries.
- [Blade micrometers](https://planar.so/wiki/inspection/instruments/blade-micrometers.md): Measuring restricted external features with blade contacts, including access, force, setting and uncertainty limits.
- [Bore gauges](https://planar.so/wiki/inspection/instruments/bore-gauges.md): Selecting, mastering and interpreting bore gauges for internal diameter checks without confusing resolution, local size and bore form.
- [Brinell hardness testers](https://planar.so/wiki/inspection/instruments/brinell-hardness-testers.md): Measure a ball indentation using a defined force and dwell, with specimen preparation, optical measurement, and verification matched to the test method.
- [Coating thickness gauges](https://planar.so/wiki/inspection/instruments/coating-thickness-gauges.md): Selecting magnetic, eddy-current and ultrasonic coating measurements, with substrate effects, adjustment and reporting limits.
- [Coordinate measuring machines](https://planar.so/wiki/inspection/instruments/coordinate-measuring-machines.md): CMM coordinate measurements, machine and sensor variants, alignment, performance specifications and task-specific uncertainty.
- [Depth micrometers](https://planar.so/wiki/inspection/instruments/depth-micrometers.md): Selecting and setting depth micrometers, interpreting interchangeable rods and controlling reference-surface and measurement errors.
- [Dial indicators](https://planar.so/wiki/inspection/instruments/dial-indicators.md): Use plunger and lever indicators with controlled alignment, contact force, mounting, and verification, and interpret runout within its setup.
- [Digital calipers](https://planar.so/wiki/inspection/instruments/digital-calipers.md): Outside, inside, depth and step measurements, with contact geometry, setting, calibration and uncertainty limits.
- [Gauge blocks](https://planar.so/wiki/inspection/instruments/gauge-blocks.md): Gauge block length, wringing, materials, grade limits, thermal behavior, calibration uncertainty and traceability.
- [Height gauges](https://planar.so/wiki/inspection/instruments/height-gauges.md): Using height gauges with controlled references, appropriate contacts and realistic limits on feature measurement and uncertainty.
- [Inside micrometers](https://planar.so/wiki/inspection/instruments/inside-micrometers.md): Selecting, setting, and interpreting two-point, three-point, and extension-type internal micrometers.
- [Laser scan micrometers](https://planar.so/wiki/inspection/instruments/laser-scan-micrometers.md): Non-contact shadow measurements, with measuring-region, scan-rate, averaging and calibration limits.
- [Laser scanners](https://planar.so/wiki/inspection/instruments/laser-scanners.md): Selecting and validating laser scanning systems for dimensional inspection, with clear limits on density, surface response, registration and uncertainty.
- [Optical comparators](https://planar.so/wiki/inspection/instruments/optical-comparators.md): Profile-projector illumination, screen and stage measurement, calibration, and application limits.
- [Optical emission spectrometers](https://planar.so/wiki/inspection/instruments/optical-emission-spectrometers.md): Elemental analysis by spark and plasma emission, with sample preparation, matrix calibration and reporting limits.
- [Optical flats](https://planar.so/wiki/inspection/instruments/optical-flats.md): Using optical flats to compare polished surfaces, interpret interference fringes and control reference, support and uncertainty limits.
- [Outside micrometers](https://planar.so/wiki/inspection/instruments/outside-micrometers.md): Outside micrometer measurement chains, reading scales, contact geometry, force, thermal effects, and the limits of calibration evidence.
- [Pin gauges](https://planar.so/wiki/inspection/instruments/pin-gauges.md): Selecting and using cylindrical pin gauges for limit checks, size estimates, and dimensional setups.
- [Rockwell hardness testers](https://planar.so/wiki/inspection/instruments/rockwell-hardness-testers.md): Depth-based hardness measurement, scale selection, specimen support and verification of Rockwell testing systems.
- [Roundness measuring instruments](https://planar.so/wiki/inspection/instruments/roundness-measuring-instruments.md): Selecting and using roundness instruments with controlled alignment, profile evaluation, filtering and realistic uncertainty limits.
- [Shore hardness testers](https://planar.so/wiki/inspection/instruments/shore-hardness-testers.md): Durometer scale selection, specimen and timing controls, verification, and limits on interpreting Shore hardness.
- [Structured-light scanners](https://planar.so/wiki/inspection/instruments/structured-light-scanners.md): Optical triangulation, acquisition and registration controls, performance specifications, and limits of inspection meshes.
- [Surface plates](https://planar.so/wiki/inspection/instruments/surface-plates.md): Precision reference planes: overall and local flatness, grade selection, support, loading and calibration.
- [Surface roughness testers](https://planar.so/wiki/inspection/instruments/surface-roughness-testers.md): Selecting surface-texture instruments and reporting roughness with controlled parameters, filtering, trace geometry and uncertainty.
- [Test indicators](https://planar.so/wiki/inspection/instruments/test-indicators.md): Lever-type indicator selection, stylus and angle effects, comparative measurement, and interpretation limits.
- [Thread micrometers](https://planar.so/wiki/inspection/instruments/thread-micrometers.md): External-thread pitch-diameter measurement, with matched contacts, setting references and limits of thread acceptance.
- [Thread plug gauges](https://planar.so/wiki/inspection/instruments/thread-plug-gauges.md): Selecting and using internal-thread limit gauges with standard-specific acceptance rules, separate dimensional checks and controlled gauge condition.
- [Thread ring gauges](https://planar.so/wiki/inspection/instruments/thread-ring-gauges.md): Selecting and interpreting external-thread limit gauges, setting adjustable rings, and controlling wear and inspection conditions.
- [Tube micrometers](https://planar.so/wiki/inspection/instruments/tube-micrometers.md): Contact measurement of tube-wall thickness, including anvil geometry, bore access, force and verification limits.
- [Ultrasonic thickness gauges](https://planar.so/wiki/inspection/instruments/ultrasonic-thickness-gauges.md): Pulse-echo thickness measurement, material and probe calibration, coating modes, and interpretation of remaining-wall readings.
- [Vernier calipers](https://planar.so/wiki/inspection/instruments/vernier-calipers.md): Reading vernier calipers and controlling jaw geometry, measuring technique, mode-specific errors and calibration limits.
- [Vickers hardness testers](https://planar.so/wiki/inspection/instruments/vickers-hardness-testers.md): Optical indentation hardness measurement: force selection, specimen preparation, diagonal reading and verification.
- [Vision measuring systems](https://planar.so/wiki/inspection/instruments/vision-measuring-systems.md): Camera-based coordinate measurement, lighting and edge strategy, autofocus, performance specifications, and application qualification.
- [XRF analyzers](https://planar.so/wiki/inspection/instruments/xrf-analyzers.md): Using X-ray fluorescence for material inspection with controlled calibration, surface preparation, detection limits and radiation handling.