Mitutoyo America Joins PDES Consortium

Mitutoyo America Corporation (Aurora, IL) joined the PDES, Inc. consortium as an Industry 3 participant with plans to leverage PDES’ existing activities, PMI testing and validation. By gaining access to testing and review of the ISO 10303 standards during the development phase, they will be able to ensure that capabilities in STEP (Standard for the Exchange of Product model data) are developed to improve manufacturing inspection. The impetus for their participation in the consortium is to take advantage of the organization’s expertise in ISO 10303 and to improve computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), inspection and quality for the industry.

“We look forward to their participation and their focus on the realm of manufacturing inspection, which also adds critical mass to our emphasis on the manufacturing supply chain,” said Jack Harris, the general manager of PDES.

“We are proud to provide the precision measuring systems necessary to mitigate risk and assure performance in the manufacturing of parts and products for the aerospace and defense industry. We are eager to collaborate with PDES and hope to develop projects that will enable the CAx-IF CAD and CAE testing forums to expand to Computer Aided Inspection (CAI) testing,” added Matt Dye, the president of Mitutoyo America.

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