Faro acquires Canadian metrology software brand BuildIt

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Metrology equipment manufacturer Faro has acquired BuildIT Software & Solutions, a leader in process-configurable 3D metrology software solutions with interfaces that are hardware-independent.

Faro will introduce the configuration power of the BuildIT software in a new “Your Product, Your Process, Your Solution” campaign aimed at providing major customers with customizable, in-process solutions that integrate metrology devices and sensors from multiple manufacturers.

Simon Raab, Faro president and CEO, says: “The acquisition of BuildIT bolsters Faro’s complementary suite of software solutions for our metrology customers. By adding BuildIT to our metrology portfolio, our customers now have even greater software options for use in a variety of 3D metrology manufacturing applications to reduce inspection and assembly times and increase productivity. The BuildIT software suite is hardware agnostic. Faro recognizes that its Factory Automation and Metrology customers often integrate equipment from multiple vendors, and we are committed to providing valuable and configurable customer-specific solutions irrespective of metrology manufacturer mix.”

BuildIT is located in Montreal, Canada. It develops and distributes custom and off-the-shelf 3D software solutions that interface with coordinate measurement machines (CMM) for real-time part inspection, tool building, assembly, alignment, measurement process automation, reverse engineering and quality control.