Technology is changing the face of aerospace manufacturing and quality assurance. No place is that change more welcome and dramatic than at Vought Aircraft Industries Inc. in Hawthorne, California.

According to Paul Evans, quality assurance lead, changes in processes and systems at his plant alone have saved literally thousands of dollars in time and costs. “At the heart of these changes,” says Evans—a 34-year veteran with Vought—“is our adoption of Verisurf Software to run our portable CMMs.” Vought first introduced Verisurf into its Hawthorne operations in 2007, when the software was selected for what Mr. Evans called an “across-the-board changeover… and to prepare for the ramp-up for a major model change.”

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