By programming coordinate measuring machines offline, companies can improve machine utilization and increase part accuracy.

Tool acceptability isn't a 'standard' decision. Let's imagine the unthinkable occurs, and an accident takes place that involves a product you manufacture. Your company becomes the target of legal action, and before you know it, a plaintiff's lawyer has subpoenaed your quality records, including those relating to the instruments and gages used to verify the product.

CMM capabilities can be expanded with additional tools.
In a perfect world, or in a fully integrated manufacturing environment, metrology systems would be able to measure all necessary parameters in one pass, without error, and feed back results seamlessly to computer-integrated manufacturing networks, in the formats most useful for machine control and process management.

Prior to the introduction of automated image-analysis systems, lab operators often had to rely on expensive film-based methods of documenting and analyzing images.

Manufacturers are spending big bucks on simulation programs to expand and upgrade employee training.

Traceability of measurements and measurement standards is key when examining a cal lab for proof of compliance with national standards.

The switch to ISO/TS 16949 forces manufacturers to assess the assessors.

Optically scanning an entire surface takes into account surface information that is often overlooked by traditional methods.

Today’s microscopes have more capabilities and features to meet manufacturing demands.

When Sonoco, the world’s largest producer of engineered carriers, continued to experience complaints about variation in the outside diameter of the cores that it supplied to its paper mill customers from its Midwest manufacturing plants, the company’s quality personnel knew something had to be done.