If manufacturers across the country have one common complaint it is they can't find enough qualified employees. It does not matter what industry or region of the country, businesses have struggled to find trained employees who can step right in and do the job. To all the manufacturers who have had trouble finding technically trained staff to take precise measurements with portable articulating arms, Faro Technologies has one thing to say -- you don't need them, pretrained that is.
Faro (Lake Mary, FL) says it has made computer-aided manufacturing measurement easy to learn with its new 3-D gage for process control called Control Station. Within 10 minutes, a "man off the street" can learn to take precise enough measurements to pass gage repeatability and reproducibility (GR&R) requirements, regardless of the worker's metrology background, said Simon Raab, president and CEO of Faro. The operator needs little training, because during the measurement process they are visually guided on a touch screen display to all required measurement points on the part. A green dot on the computer image of the part tells the operator where to place the tip of the probe that is attached to a new or retrofit Faro portable articulating arm. A red dot tells the worker to move to the next part program.