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.
