Tips and Tricks

Chasing Millimetres

Chasing Millimetres

KODA has had a busy time in the last fortnight - lots of travel and lots interesting of work.

With a refurbished roadheader in front of us we required to assess the existing accuracy of the system, and then make any tweaks to the calibration if required.

Cracking the Code

Cracking the Code

While discussing a new project with a colleague I was reminded of some prior work in which I was involved in 'maxing out' the accuracy of crackmeter measurement systems. Crackmeters have great precision, and, all things being equal, they are highly stable and repeatable. The problem is, more often than not: “all things being equal” is hard to find…

Making Leap Seconds Count

Making Leap Seconds Count

It seems a little silly at first – a leap second! I’ve been seeing it everywhere on LinkedIn and Facebook, so inevitably I started thinking about how a second can matter. Those more spiritual than I might see it as time for reflecting on life, the universe and our place in it – instead, KODA starting thinking about circuits, data-loggers, monitoring and navigation systems.