ia.cmm - the association of CMM manufacturers - supports users in properly selecting and using 3D measuring systems.
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ia.cmm, the International Association of Coordinate-Measuring-Machine-Manufacturers, was founded in late 2001 as an international non-profit organization for the world-wide promotion of the coordinate measuring machine business and technology. The Association, based in Winterthur - Switzerland, groups all leading vendors of universal multiple co-ordinate measuring machines, and offers key services aimed at helping CMM customers realize all the benefits offered by coordinate measuring.
In view of today's emphasis on quality, productivity, and information management, ia.cmm focuses on developing human skills by education and training, promoting and implementing common standards of hardware and software user interfaces, and providing modern methods and standards for metrology performance examination as well as service and user training.
The Association also serves as a competent and active partner to all international organizations and working groups in the field of CMM technology, and gives users worldwide the assurance that the machine performance is verified by CMM manufacturers in compliance with the regulations, methods, and equipment stipulated by international standards.
To help engineers and managers stay up to speed with evolving measurement technology, and provide the level of understanding that permits users to put CMM systems to their most effective use, ia.cmm initiated, maintains, and supports a forum for the exchange of experience between CMM users and CMM manufacturers.
The executive bodies of the Association are the General Meeting, the Executive Board, the Working Groups and the Audit Committee.
One of the various working groups that operate in co-operation with the ia.cmm, is OSIS, an industrial initiative which has the mission to promote the development and use of optical gaging technologies in combination with coordinate measuring machines, by giving manufacturers the proper tools, in terms of software, hardware, sensors and services.
OSIS development program has the overall objective of simplifying the integration of optical sensors into CMMs, by defining suitable standards for mechanical and electrical interfaces, data handling and exchange software, as well as accuracy specification and verification.
Founding Members of the ia.cmm were: DEA SpA, Carl Zeiss IMT, ITP, Mahr, Mitutoyo, Mora, OKM, Trimek, Wenzel, Werth, Zett Mess, Walter AG, Renishaw.
For additional info, please contact:
International Association of Coordinate Measuring Machine Manufacturers (ia.cmm)
c/o topserve.ch GmbH
Lagerhausstrasse 11, 8401 Winterthur - Switzerland
E-mail: info@iacmm.org
