Mr. Woodward comes to Wenzel/Xspect Solutions from the UK where for the past eight years he had been managing director for Wenzel’s UK operations. For fifteen years prior to that time, Mr. Woodward worked for Hexagon Metrology, Inc. in various engineering and general management positions at Hexagon’s DEA and Brown & Sharpe operations in the UK.
Mr. Woodward says, “I intend to continue to build on the solid business model for metrology equipment and services that Xspect Solutions has created over the past six years. By combining Xspect’s broad customer base and marketing network with Wenzel’s Gear Tec gear measuring machine technology, and Wenzel’s expanding 3D scanning products, we should be able to make additional market penetration in related product and industry areas here in North America.”
Andy Woodward holds a mechanical engineering degree from Birmingham University in the UK. He and his family will be relocating to the Detroit metropolitan area.
Wenzel/Xspect Solutions, Inc. headquartered in Wixom, Michigan, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Wenzel Group GmbH of Germany. Wenzel/Xspect Solutions is the Number 3 supplier of both traditional CMMs and GMM gear measuring machines to theNorth American metrology market. Wenzel/Xspect Solutions also provides a variety of unique 3D imaging technologies including the ScanTec™ non-contact white light optical measuring system, the exaCT™ integrated computed tomography workstation, MobileScan3D® mobile CNC Measurement System and the Shapetracer™ 3D laser line scanner. Wenzel/Xspect Solutions also provides OpenDMIS™, the metrology industry’s most complete open architecture metrology software.
