Coordinate-measuring machine
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Sep 21, 2026
Jason WellsGUEST
And, you know, they're having to do contour cuts and peripheral cuts.
Jason WellsGUEST
And, you know, in the CNC side, quality assurance, they're starting out in hand metrology and then graduating all the way through to CMM.
Jason WellsGUEST
Welding, they're doing, you know, starting out with plate welding.
Jason WellsGUEST
They learn four disciplines, stick, take, make, and plug score in three different positions across four different disciplines.
AndrewHOST
my goal was no major purchases.
AndrewHOST
We spent some time on my last day dressed in black to go to different booths from Retrology and look at CMMs.
AndrewHOST
And obviously... for what the for the size machine we're looking at the big players are hexagon and zeiss we looked at several machines from each company asked a bunch of questions about software got contacts for distributors or reps in our area and have follow-up to do there but after talking to james mayette and the guys at qmark and a few other folks i really think that for most of what we want to do next We really as a company need to get way better at in-process probing because we are not stacked cycle to cycle to cycle where I have to have the spindle cutting every second.
AndrewHOST
We have time.
AndrewHOST
reimport it reassign it relabel it refresh it and then you can run it yeah and while we're not expecting to do a lot of that kind of work understanding where a system is and isn't flexible is a major piece of how should I think about how this would fit in our
JayHOST
shop? Yeah.
JayHOST
So when I was shopping around for CMMs, I demoed Hexagon, PC Nemus, Calypso, obviously.
JayHOST
There was another one.
PaulADVERTISER
And
Mike PayneHOST
we thought we were having trouble measuring a part this week, called him up, said, hey, can we bring this over? Can, like, we think our CMM is acting funny.
Mike PayneHOST
And we go over there and he gives us his quality department for an hour and It's not CMM.
Mike PayneHOST
You know, it was.
Jess BirdGUEST
Amazing,
HarrisonHOST
So...
HarrisonHOST
It was just inconsistent, and we have a true position, and so you'll have a circle, and it has to stay within that true position on the CMM.
HarrisonHOST
And it was just jumping all over the place because the drill was worn out.
HarrisonHOST
And the few that I tested on Friday were falling in a normal-ish range that it didn't immediately stand out.
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HarrisonHOST
And then the next level up from that was automation, being able to load up a table and let it run overnight.
HarrisonHOST
That was a huge gain.
HarrisonHOST
And then there's other gains like the CMM being able to set up and inspect stuff and inspect stuff without me having to go in and actually go in and inspect each part individually.
HarrisonHOST
employees is a form of automation for me because I don't have to do as much.
Kody GuidryGUEST
So every month I would send updates to this buyer every single month, whether we were bringing in new machines, everything we were working towards to make us an attractive AS9100 aerospace shop, I would go and send an update to this buyer.
Kody GuidryGUEST
We got a new CMM.
Kody GuidryGUEST
We got this new machine.
Kody GuidryGUEST
We got this.
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Kody GuidryGUEST
But, you know, they come in, but the employees are so excited to take their family and go show them where they're working.
Kody GuidryGUEST
They take them to their machine.
Kody GuidryGUEST
They take them to quality department, shipping, CMM, their office, wherever it may be.
Kody GuidryGUEST
They take them and they show them, hey, this is where I work.