Inspection tools play supporting roles in the safety of factories, precision and accuracy of manufacturing processes, and quality assurance of products.
The inspection tools and instruments cover a very range of gages, probes, scopes, and meters. Some examples include air gages, balancing machines, optic, digital, and electron microscopes, bore gages, bore-scopes, calipers, coordinating measuring machines, color meters, depth gages, video cameras, dimensional gages, profile scanners, distance meters, feed escapements, fiber-scopes, fixed gages, form gages, gage blocks, hight gages, layout gages, interferometers, micrometers, levels, alignment systems, plug, pin, and angel gages, ring gages, scales, rules, readouts, snap gages, surface metrology equipment, survey instruments, thread gages, wafer and film monitors.