The role of the coordinate measuring machine (CMM) in helping to rescue North American manufacturing is hard to overstate: as globalization subjected factories here to competition from around the world, including from countries with cheaper labour and fewer regulations, CMMs helped make factories here competitive by automating quality control along production lines. CMM machines helped reduce costs by performing quality control better than humans ever could, and at a much lower rate. CMM machines can make an enormous impact in your factory, but the impact will be higher still if you purchase one of these machines used and from an…