Laser trackers have long been the portable metrology tool of choice for companies serving the aerospace, automotive and other large-scale manufacturing sectors. Applications for these systems include in-place inspection, metrology-assisted alignment and assembly, prototyping, aerospace tooling, automotive body-in-white measurements, reverse engineering, and part mating for oversized parts and assemblies. A laser tracker system excels in terms of accuracy, reliability and durability for large-scale metrology applications. Yet, its primary advantage is portability. The sheer weight, size and length of some parts make it impossible to measure them on a traditional coordinate measuring machine (CMM).
A laser tracker is a portable coordinate measurement machine that uses a laser beam to accurately measure and inspect the features of an object in 3-D space.