Paul W. Critchley saw the power of lean as a plant manager at a growing medical device company. As the orders increased, every day the two-person shipping department struggled to make deadlines, getting in at 6:30 a.m. and rushing all day in order to make the UPS truck deadline at 5 p.m.

In the realm of coordinate measuring machines (CMMs), system accuracy is no longer the bottom line. Today’s manufacturers require faster measurement speeds in addition to highly accurate machines.

For more than 50 years, coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) have been improving measurement productivity and quality. The power of CMMs has made many complex inspection tasks seem almost trivial. With this much measurement capability, is it possible operators are taking their CMMs for granted?

Cognex acquired EnShape GmbH and AQSense.

Song Chung comes to Automated Precision Inc. from a 20-year career with Perceptron Inc.

U.S. industry must rectify currently unmet needs for measurement science and “proof-of-concept” demonstrations of emerging technologies.

Mahr metrology systems products will be sold directly by the Mahr Federal Inc. sales team in the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.

We love granite. It's the primary building material for our machines for the main reason that it provides the most metrologically stable base to build our high accuracy CMMs from.

In conventional 3D scanning measurement methods the CMM performs all the movements necessary to acquire the surface data. Acceleration forces induce inertia deflections into the CMM 3d scanning frame structure, which in turn induce measurement errors.

Visit a manufacturing industry trade show and you will see brightly colored parts on display on the 3D printing vendors’ stands.