Welcome

NACMA brings together machine operators, inspectors, quality control engineers, production engineers, and equipment suppliers, predominantly from automobile and aerospace sectors, to share technical knowledge on the operation of CMM’s and on the implementation of related international measurement standards.

Workshops are held in centres of clustered manufacturers that use CMM’s in their processes, or near the host country’s National Metrology Institute. NIST (USA), NRC (Canada), and CENAM (Mexico) support the activities of this sector-driven North American organization. Presentations are given by experts from around the world on subjects such as measurement uncertainties, CMM and GD&T software validation, free form surface measurements, and laser scanners.

In 2007, the Association for Coordinate Metrology Canada (ACMC), inaugurated by NRC dimensional metrologists in 1995, became the North American Coordinate Metrology Association (NACMA) with the chair and the venue rotating among Canada, the United States, and Mexico.

Conferences and Events

The NACMA specifically addresses coordinate metrology through workshops and conferences each year, providing one of the largest annual meetings for dimensional metrologists.

NACMA 2012 Annual Workshop and Conference. Meet world experts on GD&T, dimensional measurement uncertainty, and coordinate measuring machine accuracy. The two-day event with workshop and conference lectures will be hosted by Centro Nacional de Metrología (CENAM) on Monday, 8 October 2012 and Tuesday, 9 October 2012 in Santiago de Querétaro, Qro, Mexico.

The 2012 NACMA officers are members of national laboratories and industry leaders:

	Centro Nacional de Metrología (CENAM), Mexico
	International Institute of Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing (IIGDT), USA
	Kotem Technologies Inc., Canada
	National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA

2012 Sponsors

Benefits of becoming a NACMA sponsor