What does a contract manufacturer do when its biggest customer says its parts don't measure up? That was the question faced by Hughes Bros. Aircrafters Inc. (Southgate, CA).
The supplier of compound-contoured sheetmetal details and assemblies to Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop, and other aerospace companies turned to Faro Technologies Inc. (Lake Mary, FL). Hughes Bros. purchased a FaroArm coordinate measuring system that it felt could produce the reports necessary to prove that the parts did, in fact, meet its customer's specifications.