Twenty-Two Percent of Survey Respondents Plan to Increase Spending on CMMs
TROY, MI — A majority of manufacturers in a recent Quality survey plan to maintain or increase spending on quality operations over the next year, and only 13% responded that they would expend fewer resources in the category.
In the survey, coordinate measurement machines remains a bedrock of the quality field, with 22% of respondents saying they planned to increase spending on the technology. CMMs ranked fifth in that category, behind gages, quality software, measurement software and laser measurement equipment. At 22%, CMMs hold steady with 2016’s result, when the same percentage of respondents intended to increase spending in the CMM category. That year, video measurement equipment finished ahead of CMMs instead of laser measurement equipment.