Imagine having a complete toolbox in your garage—one of those big red rolling toolboxes with drawers and compartments everywhere. Every wrench and ratchet, screwdriver and socket is neatly organized and available to be used. Just the right tool for every task.
This is the world of modern multisensor measurement. Need speed to measure thousands of small features on a surface? Digital video systems gather thousands of measurement points in fractions of a second. Need high density points to characterize a 3-D surface? High speed laser sensors scan part surfaces down to sub-micrometer uncertainty. Have features that present access problems such as bores or slots? Touch probes, both single point and scanning, are available to probe and scan the most inaccessible features. Need to access features on all faces of a part or features at odd angles? Wrists and rotary tables manipulate the system to create the perfect part/sensor relationship.