FARO Receives 10-Laser Tracker Order from Boeing
July 18 2005 - 6:14PM
PR Newswire (US)
FARO Receives 10-Laser Tracker Order from Boeing LAKE MARY, Fla.,
July 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- FARO Technologies, Inc.
(NASDAQ:FARO), the only company with a complete line of portable 3D
coordinate measurement systems for the Computer-Aided Measuring
(CAM2) market, announced the receipt of an order for 10 FARO Laser
Trackers from The Boeing Company. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20000522/FLM035LOGO ) "These
new orders follow our earlier successful FARO Laser Tracker
installations at Boeing's various U.S.-based operations, not to
mention the numerous FARO CMMs in place at their many suppliers,"
FARO CEO Simon Raab said. The new order consisted of 10 FARO Laser
Tracker Xi units for the Boeing Rotorcraft Facility in
Philadelphia, Pa. They use them to dimensionally control the
manufacture, modernization and support of the twin-turbine,
tandem-rotor, heavy-lift CH-47 Chinook helicopter, and the
tiltrotor V-22 Osprey aircraft for the U.S. Army, U.S. Army
Reserve, U.S. National Guard, U.S. Navy, and several international
customers. The FARO Laser Tracker is a portable, three-dimensional
measurement system that uses laser technology to effectively and
accurately measure large parts, tooling and machinery within its
230-ft. range. Set on a tripod, it operates by bouncing a beam off
a movable, reflective target that is guided along the surface to be
measured. By simultaneously measuring two angles and the distance,
it can pinpoint the position of the target to an accuracy of up to
0.001 in. As a user moves the target from one location to another,
the Tracker follows, recording position points in the software of
its laptop computer. If, at any point, the beam between the Tracker
and target is interrupted, its XtremeADM feature allows it to re-
acquire the beam without returning to a reference point. Once the
target has been traced over the entire object, the Tracker compiles
a 3D image of the object as a digital file. Besides its many
applications at Boeing and other aerospace companies, FARO Laser
Trackers are also used in many other industries for tasks where
large-scale, high-precision measurement is needed, including
aligning robotic assemblies. About FARO With more than 7,500
installations and 3,800 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 3D
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 and Gage-PLUS; Platinum, Digital
Template, Titanium, 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.
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CONTACT: Darin Sahler, Global Public Relations Officer, , or Greg
Fraser, EVP, , both of FARO Technologies, +1-407-333-9911 Web site:
http://www.faro.com/
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