(Fowler: Newton, MA) --Fowler High Precision, a leading supplier of high-quality inspection, leveling, control, and calibration equipment, has introduced the zCAT, the world’s first truly portable direct computer control coordinate measuring machine (DCC CMM). Weighing only 30 lbs., the zCAT is the only CMM on the market that can take automated, repeatable measurements while being extremely portable. This combination of features makes the zCAT a natural fit for deployment directly in the manufacturing process so that the same person making the part can now measure the part.

Every inch of the zCAT has been designed to ensure portability, ease of use, and accuracy. The DCC technology, which sets the zCAT apart from any manual portable CMM today, enables operators to teach the machine what they want to measure and then permit the device to take over with accuracies that rival larger, more expensive, nonportable, conventional CMMs. Complex 3D measurements for quality control can be taken quickly and automatically at the point of production.

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