Novikov G.

In 1978 the necessity to develop a cardinally new measuring technology appeared in order to be used for the creation of the newest devices. The coordinate measuring machine “Lapic” could be considered such a new measuring technology. The work on the development of this machine has been performed for 30 years by the leading specialists and still the work is on. The following article is devoted to this coordinate measuring machine “Lapic” and its advantages and capacity to raise the production level of Russian Federation, independence from the manufacturers of the west and ability to provide economic security.