May 8 Webinar Covers GD&T Basics: Measuring Orientation & Form
Faro addresses the importance of GD&T in a free webinar on Tuesday, May 8 at 2:00 EDT.

Moving Forward in Reverse
This versatile shop leverages portable CMM technology to steadily grow the reverse engineering portion of its business.

Measurement Arm Rapidly Verifies Parts
The Faro Edge from Faro Technologies is a portable measurement arm that enables manufacturers to verify product quality by performing inspections, tool certifications, CAD-to-part analysis, and reverse engineering via hard probing and non-contact laser scanning. 

Faro Celebrates 30 Years With Custom Chopper
Portable measurement and imaging solution supplier Faro Technologies (Lake Mary, Florida) celebrates three decades in business this year.

Faro Celebrates 30 Years With Custom Chopper
Portable measurement and imaging solution supplier FARO Technologies celebrates three decades in business this year.

Faro, Zeiss Offer Network of Solutions
Faro Technologies (Lake Mary, Florida) and Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology (Maple Grove, Minnesota) have announced the launch of the Innovative Solutions Network, a marketing, sales and support collaboration in North America intended to provide customers with a total metrology solution.

Last Glance at IMTS 2010
It would be impossible to cover all of the key exhibitors at IMTS 2010—even if every booth got merely a quick glance. However, the editors of MMS did get glimpses of some interesting technologies exhibited at the show...

Portable CMM Slashes Inspection Time
For very large parts, portable measuring solutions can be more practical than traditional CMMs and gages. One such unit from FARO helped this shop reduce inspection time by 80 percent on a large, cast iron housing.

Faro Offers Technology “Test Drive”
According to Faro, the economic crisis has created a catch-22 for many manufacturers—purchasing new technology requires securing new contracts, but new contracts can’t be secured without purchasing new technology. To help shops deal with this issue, the company has unveiled a new program designed to put its 3D measurement devices on customers’ shop floors without capital expense.

Line Of Measurement Solutions
The Faro gage is said to increase measurement productivity, flexibility and enhance accuracy in virtually any production environment. The FaroArm and Laser ScanArm improve production, quality and reverse engineering processes by rapidly and accurately verifying or scanning parts, the company says. The Laser Tracker helps build products, optimize processes and deliver solutions by measuring quickly, simply and accurately, the company says.

Getting New Business with Big Machines
These shops saved themselves from dependence on the declining automotive sector thanks in part to their commitment to large-scale machining capacity.

Replacing Turning with Grinding
This compressor maker’s custom impeller profiles used to present a sticky machining problem. Now, the parts no longer need the wax that turning used to require.

Portable Measurement Arm Creates 3D Part "Blueprint"

More Than Big Machines
This shop specializes in very large components such as rotor hubs and support bases for wind turbines. Its lineup of large horizontal boring mills can handle parts weighing 40,000 pounds and 12 feet on a side. However, the shop’s success also lies in other manufacturing resources and strategies. These include material handling equipment, customized tooling, special fixtures and wireless, portable measuring systems.

Increased Accuracy And Portability For Measuring Arms
Multi-axis, computer-aided measuring arms offer accuracy comparable to a CMM in a portable design. A new version of such an arm is said to be the first 8-foot measuring arm that can achieve an accuracy of 0.0007 inch.

Software Improves Workflow, Quality Of Laser Scanner

Measurement Device With CAD-to-Part Analysis Capability

No Wires, No Worries
A wireless network can operate safely and effectively in a hostile shop floor environment, as the experience of this welding and machining company shows. Interference from other sources of radio waves can be avoided by installing suitable data access point hardware. Data security cam be established with encryption and other techniques.

Execute Precise Inspection Of Various Components

Laser Tracker Upgrade

CMM Ships With CAD Software

On-Demand Inspection Programs
This new software takes the programming of inspection routines, and the overhead that goes with along with it, out of the shop.

Shop Floor Metrology On The Move
Portable arm coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) offer advantages beyond portability.

Don't Move That Mold
A portable measuring arm allows 30-ton molds to be measured without having to be moved.

Portable Measurement Arm Cuts Digitizing Time In Half
A portable measurement arm is helping a West Virginia firm manufacture pump replacement parts that, in many cases, are more accurate and thus, perform better than the original OEM parts they replace.

Just Like The Real Thing
Modular fixturing helps Toro's prototype welded assemblies--and their final manufacturing process--all at once.