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Mastering the art of CMM performance Steed Webzell, Technical Editor of Measurement & Manufacturing speaks exclusively with Manuel Müller, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Hexagon, about the company’s new CMM market disruptor: MAESTRO
In a continuously evolving economic landscape, manufacturers must stay laser-focused on efficiency, throughput and cost reduction. And while challenges remain, the digital revolution delivers a golden opportunity to reshape industry conventions through the convergence of technology, hyper-connectivity and data analytics. It seems the perfect time to reimagine a manufacturing mainstay: the coordinate measuring machine. Manuel Müller, Senior Product Marketing Manager for Stationary Machine Tool
Measurement at Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division, says: “Here at Hexagon we’ve been developing CMMs for decades, with each iteration a little better than the last. But this time we took a different approach. We thought about what we’d conceptualise if CMMs didn’t exist and this was our chance to design a coordinate measuring solution from the ground up with little consideration for the limitations of existing technology. The result of that process was MAESTRO, a CMM that overcomes what our customers state are their four biggest
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