Cmm Inspection System

Faro Business Technologies offers PowerGAGE, a high-tech and user-friendly manufacturing inspection device, which resembles a short metallic arm. Instead of taking the part to an expensive fixed CMM in a climate-controlled room, users can mount the PowerGAGE directly 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 3D measurements against the original CAD file - the digital `blueprint` - checking whether the part was made correctly and, if not, where it needs to be corrected, thus reducing scrap, re-work and labour costs. The PowerGAGE expands upon the functionality of the 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 optimise the viewing angle of the part as they measure, and save all inspection data and run customised reports.