Portable CMM for production floor efficiency

The FaroArm developed by Faro Technologies is lightweight, portable and makes measuring different parts as simple as opening a file or importing a CAD file.

For contract manufacturers, success depends on the quality of their final product.

Their reputation in the industry can be tarnished if they are known for providing parts that don't meet customers' requirements.

In many cases, inspection on these parts is performed by only the Quality Control Department.

While this is a great way to catch many problems before the parts leave the shop, it still does not solve problems that arise during the production process.

Machine operators perform in-process inspections in order to prevent random and systematic defects.

Part samples need to be measured right off the production line, but that creates problems for both production and quality control.

Production does not have time to wait for CMM room bottlenecks; quality control finds on-demand requests disruptive to scheduled jobs.

Using hand tools to verify parts in-process is an outdated solution.

Calipers and gauges do not provide the level of accuracy and consistency that is needed to provide high-quality, in-spec parts that manufacturers - and more importantly, their customers - require.

Like a hand tool or stationary CMM, the FaroArm from Faro Technologies measures geometric features.

But unlike CMMs, the FaroArm is lightweight, portable, and measuring different parts is as simple as starting a new file or importing the new CAD file - no reprogramming is necessary.

Far superior to hand tools, the FaroArm directly imports measurements into CAD software for 3D comparison and generates GDandT and SPC reports.

With the FaroArm, anyone, anywhere can inspect, reverse engineer or perform CAD-to-Part-analysis on parts, fixtures and assemblies with previously unheard of precision (up to 0.0005in accurate).

By implementing this technology onto the production floor, Machine Operators can catch parts as they approach dimensional tolerances.

The ultimate result: errors are easily caught in the earlier stages of production, helping to eliminate unnecessary scrap, reduce interruptions to the final quality control process, while producing an overall better product.

Before implementing the FaroArm into the production process, the accuracy of measurements was always in question.

By adding a FaroArm to this process, the high accuracy and ease-of-use allows contract manufacturers to be confident that machines are outputting the correct part with each run.

The portability of the FaroArm allows several units to be mounted right where they are needed on the production floor.

Engineers no longer have to disrupt the work flow of the quality control department by tasking them to immediately verify a simple spec of a part.

It also allows operators to catch any problems much earlier, which reduces the amount of scrap material and the time needed to fix or replace a part.

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