This has been a fun week for us at Quality Digest, as we’ve had a chance to support World Metrology Week and one of our long-standing partners, the Coordinate Metrology Society (CMS).  As many of you know, the CMS is the organization behind the annual Coordinate Metrology Systems Conference (CMSC), which convenes again this July in fabulous New Orleans.

Metrology—the science of measurement—is a foundation of the quality assurance industry, for without accurate measurement, the given quality of a part or process cannot be ascertained. All this week, we’ve highlighted the wonderful, wild, and sometimes weird applications for industrial metrology in such diverse industries as aerospace, automotive, power generation, solar, wind, off-highway, and more. The equipment itself is quite far-ranging and includes (but is not limited to) hardware systems such as articulated arms, laser trackers, structured white-light scanners, and photogrammetry, not to mention the various software that supports these solutions.

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