This article can be helpful to anyone tasked with selecting software, however, it is written from the perspective of realizing effective measurement and inspection solutions for manufacturing enterprises.

Too often manufacturing companies either minimize the importance of measurement and inspection software or worse, they make purchase decisions based on hardware features that may or may not provide the results they need. It is only after they take delivery and use the equipment do they realize they have purchased software that is not up to the task, or the wrong type of CMM given their workflow and the results they require.