For the last four years, Profit Magazine has selected Gage as one of the top 100 companies in terms of growth. Gage's motivated employees, exciting new products, diversified customer base and a growing international presence have positioned Gage for continued high growth in market share, revenues and profits. The use and development of technology requires instruments. From research and development of new technologies to ensuring quality in the manufacturing of disk drives, instruments are essential. For example, when the Space Shuttle is launched, many different instruments are used to conduct thousands of electrical, temperature, chemical and other measurements to monitor the status of the craft and its crew.
Instruments are essential to our high technology economies.
For decades, engineers have used analog instruments to observe results on a CRT screen. These instruments are useful only if the signal is periodic and the engineer is present. To observe transient phenomena, or a non-periodic behavior, engineers require instruments that can be set up to capture transients and store them. This became possible with digital oscilloscopes. Computer-based instruments, introduced during the 1980's, provide instrument capabilities integrated with a computer.