Faro shows how portable CMM avoids scrap, re-work

A Faro product story

Edited by the Manufacturingtalk editorial team Jul 9, 2008

A video shows users of manual gauging equipment that Faro gauges are just as user-friendly, but help them do their jobs faster with less scrap, re-work and labor costs.

Faro Technologies has released an online video demonstration of its highest-accuracy device, the Faro Gage-PLUS.

The Faro Gage, accurate to 0.0004in (0.01mm) or the Faro Gage-PLUS, accurate to 0.0002in (0.005mm), are portable CMMs (coordinate measuring machines).

These CMMs enable users to measure across a wide range of industrial applications.

Instead of using hand tools or taking a part to an expensive, traditional CMM in a climate-controlled room, Quality Control personnel can mount the Faro Gage directly to the machine producing the part.

The video illustrates that, as the user guides the Gage's tip over the surface of a part, the system's laptop computer records all of the object's measurements in order to verify that it has been made correctly or needs modifications.

The Gage then generates detailed, ISO-traceable reports to prove that outgoing and incoming parts are up to spec.

Faro technical product manager, Robert Sanville, said: "Our customers - machinists and shop floor personnel - are accustomed to using rulers, micrometers, and calipers.

The video walks them through the process of how the Faro Gages are just as user-friendly as those devices, but with advanced capabilities that help them do their jobs faster with less scrap, re-work and labor costs".

He added: "It gives customers the power of a stationary CMM, but with the simplicity and portability of a hand tool".

Additional videos will follow for Faro's entire product line, including application-specific demonstrations on how to resolve common quality control, reverse-engineering and inspection issues.