As more production data flows from the CMM straight into process control, the humble fixture is becoming one of the biggest sources of measurement risk, and one of the most overlooked. In this interview article Andrew Hodson CEO) and Michael Nugent (COO) of Verus Metrology Partners explain why holding a part is a metrology discipline in its own right, why moulded and flexible parts break the usual rules, and why fixturing belongs at the start of a project, not the end. Verus