Harry Moser, founder and president of the Reshoring Initiative, opened the final day's events with his keynote address calling for a resurgence of American manufacturing.

High-energy, large-format industrial CT scanning allows for feasible inspection of larger parts.

Anyone active on Facebook and Twitter in 2015 likely remembers the argument over the color of a blue and black dress. 

Quality tours Exact Metrology’s Brookfield, WI facility.

Modern manufacturers collect mountains of data every day. But how much of that data is ever studied, beyond the small percentage that raises red flags?

The Trump Administration’s contentious relationship with Mexico, possible changes to trade agreements and its public focus on American manufacturing has led some to reconsider moving jobs south-of-the-border. But what’s often lost in the rhetoric and public relations arm wrestling is the growing trend of nearshoring.

As far as origin stories go, the technology behind helium leak detection is more glamorous than most. That is, when compared to the bubble test, a method many will remember experimenting with during childhood after a popped bicycle tire.

Laser tracker technology has advanced by leaps and bounds in the last 20 years. But experts say the biggest shift has actually been in thinking and how they are used.

Walking the floor of the International Manufacturing Technology Show in Chicago—between the 100,000-plus attendees and the thousands of booths—it was impossible not to notice the ongoing trend towards speed and automation in every aspect of manufacturing. It’s no different in metrology, as more manufacturers look to automate their inspection processes.

In a regulated consumer industry, it is vital to test everything from individual components and materials to major assemblies and crash structures.