Editor's note: This week, Quality Digest Daily will be looking at some of the key technologies on display at the Coordinate Metrology Society's annual conference (CMSC). The CMSC, taking place this year July 20–24 in Hollywood, Florida, is the gathering place for users, service providers, and original equipment manufacturers of close tolerance, industrial coordinate measurement systems, software, and peripherals.

The Coordinate Metrology Society (CMS) first came into being in 1984 to address industry's need for an organization to bring together users and providers of the hardware and software needed for portable, large-volume, close-tolerance measurement, inspection, and assembly applications. From the beginning, the CMS and its annual conference, the CMSC, supported an unprecedented amount of knowledge transfer, making it a great resource for metrologists at any point in their career arcs. During the last three-plus decades, as technological breakthroughs arrived that drastically reduced measurement times while vastly increasing accuracy, the members of the CMS have helped each other solve problems and achieve better quality and reliability for their organizations.

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