Renishaw, a world leading engineering technologies company, has purchased the business of Advanced Consulting & Engineering Inc., (ACE), a US-based supplier of dimensional measurement products and services focused on the automotive industry.

The acquisition of family-owned ACE, based in Rochester Hills, Michigan, provides Renishaw with further specialist programming capabilities using leading industry packages and will help to support sales of its co-ordinate measuring machine (CMM) probing systems and Equator gauges in the USA.

For over 15 years ACE has provided a range of in-house and on-site measurement services to its customers including contract inspection, CMM fixture design, machine retrofits, CMM programming, training and full turnkey solutions from conception to completion. Since 2011 the company has also been a distributor of Renishaw's CMM and gauging products, including REVO?, PH20 and Equator