Customer demands for higher volumes of parts with shorter lead Arial often forces manu-facturers to either purchase new equipment or upgrade it. That was the challenge faced by Eagle Manufacturing (Florence, KY), an engine component supplier to Ford Motor Co. and Navistar International that produces more than 260,000 components per year. Thanks to new CMM software, the company was able to shorten its production cycle.

The company relied on a Sheffield RS-150 coordinate measuring machine (CMM) and a Sheffield 1808-M CMM to perform receiving and in-process operations, final inspections and occasional unscheduled layouts.