Stepan Hrivna is software development director for Next Metrology Software (Prague), developer of the TouchDMIS metrology software for CMMs.
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Manufacturing Engineering: Tell me about your company. How long has TouchDMIS software been in development? Stepan Hrivna: Next Metrology Software has its develop- ment headquarters in Prague, one of the most beautiful cities in Europe and home to the oldest university in Central Europe established in 1348. The Czech Republic offers one of the most educated populations in Europe with an outstanding
Hrivna: CMM software must be all things to all people, meaning that a great deal of functionality must be present in the software while the average user applies only some 25–30% in daily tasks. However, the traditional user interface of CMM software is burdened by all this functionality with hundreds of icons. In addition, much functionality is buried and must be learned in two-week training periods and many months of
“Touch technology is revolutionizing human interaction to complex devices, providing faster, simpler, more intuitive user solutions.”
foundation for cost-focused, productive software development. Our TouchDMIS software was developed in less than two years by our team of metrology software application developers who have extensive experience in 3D metrology, emerging media and touch technologies with the mission of making coordinate metrology simple. ME: How can touch technology help metrologists improve productivity? Hrivna: Touch technology is revolutionizing human inter- action to complex devices, providing faster, simpler, more intuitive user solutions. Touch technology will change CMM programming and operation by dramatically reducing training times, lowering learning curves and improving overall CMM usability, which is exactly the requirement of the majority of companies deploying CMM technology. ME: What is wrong with current CMM software solutions?
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arduous learning curves. The CMM industry has bred a family of CMM experts over the decades and they are very much in increasingly short supply. This is completely against the modern manufacturing philosophy of ‘Keep it Simple.’ ME: How much easier is it to learn TouchDMIS than other measurement software? Hrivna: We have designed a ground-breaking One-Touch user interface without toolbars, hidden functionality or complex dialogue boxes. The UI [user interface] dynami- cally responds to user input, presenting available options and suggestions, allowing only metrology-legal functions to be per- formed. The simplicity of the TouchDMIS UI is a fantastic work of design innovation—our designers came from the mobile touch-computing industry with no prior metrology experience. TouchDMIS is available with an optional TouchCAD module, which allows touch extraction of nominal geometry with a
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