How many dimensional data points are enough to accurately describe a part feature? The key to answering this question is understanding the stability of the manufacturing process.

Brown and Sharpe has reached an agreement with the state of Rhode Island to relocate its operations to the Quonset Davisville Port and Commerce Park, located

MTS Systems Corp.

AccuMetria has become a SolidWorks Solution Partner with the introduction of its new product, CMMWorks.

DVT Corp., an integrated machine vision provider, and Phoenix Contact Inc., a provider of industrial connection, packaging and communications technologies, have formed

Cognex Corp. has launched the Cognex Certified Vision Integrator program in North America.

Renishaw and its Slovenian partner, RLS Merilina Tehnika d.o.o., have allied their capabilities to produce a new range of miniature magnetic rotary encoders.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has addressed its metrologist training backlog by offering an electronic mass measurement training course.

Jack Welch had a unique vision of an organization that made data-based decisions. At times his tactics for bringing this about were described as “violent,” “abrupt” and “painful,” but his methods worked.

Coordinate measuring machines gather data by means of a probe or sensor. Conventional CMMs equipped with touch-trigger probes can use a stitch-scanning method to record point streams from part surfaces.