Lang is talking about the IM-6120 “Instant Measurement” image dimension measuring system, which Patrick Manufacturing purchased after a visit to the biennial Chicago Association of Spring Manufacturers (CASMI) trade show in Chicago. “I've been there three times now,” says Lang. “There's always new equipment to look at but nothing really jumped out at me until we saw the Instant Measurement system at KEYENCE's booth. We had looked at other equipment over the years and it was either too big for what we needed, or had some sort of quirk like only being able to display in metric. The simplicity of the KEYENCE system really blew us away—it takes out any chance of user error, and is very quick to set up. It was the rst time we actually were wowed at CASMI in the last 10 years!” After the show

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