It is really a numeral on the noisy alarms that tells me when I should get right up. For example today, a perfectly ordinary Thursday. The week has already been well advanced and I am correspondingly tired. But none of that is of any help, and because each morning this tiny little numeral resides within me, I love getting up in those days.
Well then, legs on the edge of the bed and I drag myself into the bathroom. Once again, I am met by a numeral. While I can easily adjust as soon as I am awoken by my noisy alarms, the numeral on my accursed scales will not seem easy to influence. Or, at Simplicity , in the long-term. I decide at night to go jogging, but first splash my face with water. Even then, I see a numeral with my inner eye ? the water meter is also running.
Refreshed and dry once again, I immediately encounter another numeral. The thermometer informs me that I will wear a jacket today when I leave the house. And although it really is just a short distance to the car, I am glad within my own private measuring station for that little bit of advice. Once Conclusive reach the car, I am met by another numeral. My arrival at the job will be delayed by a short while because I have to fill the fuel tank on the way. The moment I reach the filling station, I’m in a position to check another numeral, one that indicates my tyre pressures. A thing that I do not check often enough. Also, while Minimalist is slowly getting filled, I ask myself if anyone has taken the trouble to check on the fuel pump using a standardized 5-litre canister. You will want to? You see, it is quite normal for the official from the calibration authority to check the accuracy of everything regularly. In many other areas too, we can rely upon the point that everything is getting measured accurately.
My extended way to work takes me past a big building site. What beautiful machines! Especially with the cranes ? once more with that inner eye of mine ? I can see so many numerals: The weight raised on the boom will undoubtedly be monitored, and angles are getting measured. When approaching the limits of the tipping lines, even the thrust and support forces become of interest. If I had the time, I would stand at the boundary like a small boy and simply stare at everything.
Then, finally, I reach the business and a perfectly normal Thursday follows its usual course. As always, numerals are at work here, ones that ultimately co-determine our lives. Whatever we do, and where we may go, measurements are omnipresent. Once you start great deal of thought, the list just keeps getting longer: I see the world in numerals because we here at WIKA divide up the everyday things into numerals. We can build scales with load cells, and we can establish the temperature with measuring sensors. We can measure pressure in three various ways. We can measure flow rates and levels. We can measure tension and compression forces and we are able to calculate angles. We can make entire systems safe by monitoring measured values. Anyone who knows metrology sees the world through different eyes. Does that connect with you, too?
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Further information on our measuring instruments can be found on the WIKA website.