New FARO PowerGAGE arm performs quality inspection

FARO Technologies, Inc. will display the FARO Power- GAGE, a new measurement device that adds CAD-to-part analysis capability to its FARO Gage product line. The Power- GAGE 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. When equipped with both of PowerINSPECT's Program 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, and receive on-screen instructions including images and videos. The PowerGAGE, which resembles a short, metallic arm, is a high-tech, user-friendly manufacturing inspection device. Instead of taking the part to a fixed CMM in a climate-controlled room, shops 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 to see if it was made correctly and, if not, where it needs to be corrected.

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