Make money through inspection workshop

The workshop will include technical presentations and practical demonstrations, plus the opportunity to discuss any metrology problems with experts from both organisations. "Too many companies still regard inspection as an expensive, complicated and time-consuming operation that limits their profitability," claimed Phil Hewitt, PowerINSPECT product manager at Delcam. "This workshop aims to show how modern inspection software and the latest portable metrology equipment can instead be used to make money." There are at least five ways he said, in which this is possible: inspection can save your reputation by finding mistakes before your customer does; it can save money by spotting errors earlier and correcting them at lower cost; it can eliminate time spent working on parts that are already too far out of tolerance; it can improve consistency and so reduce waste; and it can improve quality and so help companies to win more business. These views were supported by David Homewood, area vice president of sales for the UK, France and Benelux at FARO. "The FARO range of portable inspection equipment is much more flexible than conventional coordinate measuring machines," he stated. "This, coupled with the systems' ease of use, makes it possible to take more frequent measurements at various stages of the manufacturing process and at different locations within a factory. It allows any errors to be detected much earlier, and so reduces the time and money wasted by continuing to produce out-of-tolerance parts." FARO equipment to be demonstrated at the workshop will include the company's range of gauges and inspection arms, fitted with conventional probes or the ScanArm laser-based data-collection system, plus the laser tracker. All of the devices will be shown with Delcam's PowerINSPECT software.