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Quality Large-Scale Manufacturing
A wide-angle shot of the front of the new coordinate measuring machine, showing the probe head (red, center).
Laser trackers have significantly enhanced production quality and reduced measurement time by orders of magnitude, bolstering domestic manufacturing competitiveness of large-scale products ranging from airplane wings and vessel hulls to windmill turbine blades. However, this transformation was only possible after thoroughly understanding the accuracy and reliability of laser trackers and scanners.
Today, every laser tracker worldwide is bought, sold and warranted using well-understood specifications, thanks to NIST-led documentary standard development in collaboration with industry experts.
To maintain U.S. leadership in future innovations, NIST maintains unique facilities dedicated to evaluating new measurement technologies for large-scale dimensional measurements.