Aerospace Acumen: How Do They Do It?
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The aerospace industry is known for manufacturing parts with critical dimensions and tight tolerances, all of which must undergo demanding inspections.
Expand Your Horizons!
I am looking forward to another year serving the community of the Coordinate Metrology Society. I would like to encourage our metrology membership to revel in your accomplishments, and expand your horizons in 2020 by taking on something new.
Uncertainty Evaluation of Fringe Projection Based on the Linear Systems Theory
Fringe projection techniques offer fast, noncontact measurements of the surface form of manufactured parts. Fringe projection has seen successful implementation in the automotive, aerospace, and medical industries.
Mergers and Acquisitions Reshape Metrology Industry in 2019
Change is the only constant in life.” This quote is attributed to Heraclitus, a very influential Greek philosopher from the late sixth century BCE. His time-honored words still hold true in 2019, and change indeed continues to shape the metrology industry.
Standing on Her Shoulders
Women who crashed the glass ceiling in male-dominated fields have compelling stories about the trajectory of their careers.
Field Report: CMSC 2019
For any of you who missed it, CMSC 2019 was, as always, a first-class conference with loads of great content, exciting new product and service offerings, and numerous unique opportunities for knowledge transfer with the leading metrologists in industry and academia.<
Slashing Weeks Off Reverse-Engineering Farm Equipment
Taylor Attachments, based in the United Kingdom, custom designs and produces tractor headstock conversion brackets.
Certification and Customer Satisfaction
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Although certification to major standards is often the threshold to winning next-level contracts, it is when your organization synthesizes the standard’s values that real payoff is realized. Chief among those values is customer satisfaction.
How ESPRIT Helps Green Tools Produce First-Class Tools
Founded in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2001, Green Tools is a leading manufacturer of cutting tools, providing circular saws and other woodcutting machines for the sawmill, furniture, and woodworking industries throughout Russia.
Blown Away: Revisiting a Famous Engineering Case
One of the undergraduate engineering courses that left a deep and lasting impression on me was a course on innovation and aesthetics in engineering taught by David Billington at Princeton University.