New FARO PowerGAGE Arms On-Machine Inspection Market
20 April 2006 - 1:15AM
PR Newswire (US)
LAKE MARY, Fla., April 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- FARO
Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:FARO), the world's single source for a
complete line of portable CAM2 solutions, has released the FARO
PowerGAGE -- a new measurement device that adds CAD-to-part
analysis capability to its FARO Gage product line. "The FARO
PowerGAGE serves the unfulfilled market need for on-machine
inspection (OMI) estimated at $1.5 billion," FARO President and
Co-CEO Jay Freeland said. "It is a tremendous opportunity, as this
is the only portable measurement device that enables manufacturers
to verify that a part meets the CAD file's specs to within .0002 of
an inch -- right on the machine that's producing the part." The
PowerGAGE is different from its FARO Gage and Gage-PLUS
counterparts in that it can perform CAD-to-part analysis. Whereas
the FaroArm enables users to reverse engineer and use more than 60
different software platforms, the PowerGAGE runs exclusively on a
version of Delcam's PowerINSPECT -- software already used by the
majority of the OMI market. When equipped with both of
PowerINSPECT's Programmer and Play-Only modules, PowerGAGE users
can: * Create inspection programs/routines offline for anyone in
the facility to run * Import all major industry CAD formats *
Perform surface inspection against master CAD files * Receive
on-screen instructions including images and videos * Access a full
suite of geometric inspection tools * Automatically optimize the
viewing angle of the part as they measure * Save all inspection
data and run customized reports The PowerGAGE, which resembles a
short, metallic arm, is a high-tech, yet user-friendly
manufacturing inspection device. Instead of taking the part to an
expensive fixed CMM in a climate-controlled room, they can mount
the PowerGAGE directly to where the part is being made. As the user
traces the arm's tip over the part's entire surface, the system's
laptop computer verifies all of the part's 3-D measurements against
the original CAD file -- the digital "blueprint" -- to see if it
was made correctly and, if not, where it needs to be corrected,
thus reducing scrap, re-work and labor costs. "We developed the
PowerGAGE as a direct result of input from customers who wanted the
high, .0002" accuracy of our FARO Gage-PLUS, but needed expanded
capability to handle CAD-to-part analysis," Freeland said. "When
you consider the low introductory cost of around $34,500, the value
to the OMI market and the fact that an entire department can be
trained in only two hours, the PowerGAGE's return on investment is
substantial and almost immediate." About FARO With more than 10,800
installations and 4,900 customers globally, FARO Technologies, Inc.
(NASDAQ:FARO) and its international subsidiaries design, develop,
and market software and portable, computerized measurement devices.
The Company's products allow manufacturers to perform 3-D
inspections of parts and assemblies on the shop floor. This helps
eliminate manufacturing errors, and thereby increases productivity
and profitability for a variety of industries in FARO's worldwide
customer base. Principal products include the FARO Laser ScanArm;
FARO Laser Scanner LS; FARO Gage, Gage-PLUS and PowerGAGE;
Platinum, Digital Template, Titanium, and Advantage FaroArms; the
FARO Laser Tracker X and Xi; and the CAM2 family of advanced
CAD-based measurement and reporting software. FARO Technologies is
ISO-9001 certified and ISO-17025 laboratory registered. DATASOURCE:
FARO Technologies, Inc. CONTACT: Darin Sahler, Global PR Manager,
FARO Technologies, +1-407-333-9911, or Web site:
http://www.faro.com/
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