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    1 Day GD&T Class Added to Hexagon 2012 Agenda

    Get the most from your Metrology track investment at Hexagon 2012 by taking advantage of our extra hands-on 1 day GD&T training session prior to the start of Hexagon 2012! The Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing training workshop will provide an
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    Is There Life on Mars?

    Artist Concept - Mars Curiosity Rover. Image credit: NASA/JPL-CaltechIf NASA's Mars Exploration Program has its way there ultimately will be – us!  Its Curiosity Rover is currently on a 254 day journey between earth and the red planet (scheduled to l
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    Friday, 17 February 2012
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    Your One Stop Shop for Calibrations

    Yes, we make great products but did you know we calibrate not just Hexagon CMM brands (Brown & Sharpe, DEA, Leitz, Sheffield, Starrett*), but we also calibrate other brands of CMM equipment such as Zeiss, Mitutoyo, Helmel and Wenzel too? We also cali
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    Wednesday, 15 February 2012
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    Welcome Hexagon 2012 Sponsor: R&R Sales & Engineering

    Hexagon Metrology is proud to welcome R&R as the first official metrology Tech Expo sponsor for the Hexagon 2012 Conference, June 4-7 in Las Vegas.  R&R Sales and Engineering offers flexible solutions for CMM and vision part holding.  R&R offers both
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Hexagon Releases 2011 Results

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Our parent company, Hexagon AB, has released the year-end report for 2011.  As a group, we are now a company of €2.169 billion in sales and 13,060 employees. The Metrology division worldwide accounts for 31% of the group's sales, and grew sales 15% ...
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Have you ever gotten one of those "page not found" / Broken Link pages when searching?  Web guys call it a "404" page, which is the shorthand for an HTTP 404 error, which is basically the webserver telling you "this page cannot be found". We have a l...
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Quonset Point PolitiFact Truth-o-Meter

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Hexagon Metrology Quonset PointPoiliticians seem to love to play a bit loosely with the truth. These days we have PolitiFact to help us check if what they are saying is true, half true, or "liar liar pants on fire".  Recenty a debate arose about the ...
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Puzzle Fun With Hexagons

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We might surmise that the hexagon is one of nature's favorite shapes. The honeycomb is the most obvious example of the hexagon in nature.  But there is also the "Giant's Causeway" , an area of more than 40,000 interlocking basalt columns on the...
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ROMER Helps NAIR's Virtual Reality Lab

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The National Institute for Aviation Research operates a reverse engineering and virtual reality lab in Wichita, KS. The Wichita Eagle recently reported on how the lab is using reverse engineering and virtual reality techniques to help re-create legac...
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