Measurement flexibility is important to Polaris Industries Inc. (Spirit Lake, IA), a manufacturer of personal watercraft, motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles. "Due to the wide range of vehicles produced at our plant, we needed a system that would allow us to quickly measure everything from the bearing fittings of the wheels of our motorcycles and ATVs to the boat hulls of our watercraft," observes Chuck White, a Polaris quality engineer.
To meet that need, Polaris turned to Faro Technologies Inc. (Lake Mary, FL), which supplies the Gold-series FaroArm, a 3D multi-axis portable measurement arm that is accurate to + or - 0.001 inch. Polaris acquired its first FaroArm in 1996 and today uses three Gold-series units and Faro's CAM2 Measure software for applications including first piece inspections.