The U.S. market for portable coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) is beginning to heat up.

Computer-based training can help workers learn new standards and business procedures-all without leaving the office.

Designers of consumer electronics gear, it seems, are constantly developing ways to shrink a product's size without sacrificing features or capabilities found in the bigger model it is meant to replace.

Balzers Inc. is a coating company, plain and simple. To paraphrase a commercial, they don't make the cutting tools that bore through hard metal; they make them cut longer.

A new servoelectric material test system generates little noise.

It's hot. It's dirty. It's a through-feed production line and it's no place for a coordinate measuring machine (CMM). At least, not until now.

The picture was cloudy. The signs mixed. Even before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the economy was uncertain.

While a number of concerns must be addressed, many manufacturers have successfully moved coordinate measuring machines from the lab to the factory floor.

Delphi's Brookhaven, MS, plant uses shop-floor vision measurement with integrated statistical process control to measure complex electrical housings.

Amid the aftermath of Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Quality magazine forecasts spending for 2002.