“In the old days finding out the material size would have been done by waiting until the dies were prepped to run, setting up the dies in the forge shop, figuring out the billet size and the process of then taking down the setup. Next, we would have to order …

“After the dies had been updated to the customer’s modifications, we scanned the dies again, and using Geomagic Control, we checked the updated dies to the modified models, giving us a comparison report to see if we had indeed captured the updates correctly. Except for the original pattern sent to …