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now a mainstay in automotive manufacturing. This technol- ogy is just starting to make its way into other industries like medical, energy, electronics, and consumer goods, to make higher quality parts at a lower cost.


Study Finds Most Manufacturers Don’t Track Their Asset Data


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survey of US manufacturers and their usage of computerized main- tenance and management systems (CMMS) and enterprise asset manage- ment (EAM) software found that 34% of survey respondents are not capturing any operational data. The report, released Feb. 9 by


Smartware Group Inc. (Center Harbor, NH), developer of the Bigfoot CMMS solution, and Technologies Evaluation Centers Inc. (TEC; Montreal, Quebec, Canada), also noted that of the 60% of those surveyed that were capturing this data, two-thirds do so manually. The fi ndings demonstrate a


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signifi cant gap between common maintenance practices in the fi eld and existing technological tools. Mod- ern data-driven asset management systems enable manufacturers to cut downtime and improve effi ciency through programmatic evaluation of each asset’s health before a major maintenance issue arises. Non-exis- tent or manual asset tracking exposes these organizations to increased risk of operational disruption.


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Perceptron Inc. (Plymouth, MI) has launched a new Expert CMM solution including a TouchCloud module add-on for its TouchDMIS software that helps reduce the necessary user skill level. The TouchCloud module enables


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full feature extraction from point clouds rather than rendered .STL format, pro- viding faster and more accurate mea- surements. Part features can be touch- probed or laser-scanned, depending on feature type and tolerance.


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