coordinate measuring machine thanks for your great work cleaning up the cmm page in one of your last edit comments you mention not being able to find dea it's it's owned by hexagon metrology i don't know enough about dea to make more then a stub of a page let me know if you have any suggestions preceding unsigned comment added by talk contribs thanks for the compliment but i haven't done much and thanks for the link to dea i've added them as a brand of hexagon and sheesh it appears they own brown sharp and sheffield now too unfortunately i know almost nothing of the field the reason i hit the cmm article was to find out what a cmm was or i'd start a stub on hexagon talk hist