A Study of Training in the Dimensional Metrology Industry

Abstract

A survey, and a fairly uncomfortable set of answers. Lanny Wilson set out to establish who in the dimensional metrology industry actually gets trained, what training the users of metrology products are given, what training they would prefer, what priority training carries at their companies, and what materials come with it. The results are reported by respondent type – service companies, software companies, trainers – including what trainers themselves said they most wanted to improve. The conclusions are blunt: training in the industry will have to improve to meet the certification standards the Coordinate Metrology Society was then considering, and dimensional metrology education needs to be more available at university level.