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If you work in the manufacturing industry then you have undoubtedly came by one of ROMER's 3D measuring arms. They are essentially used all over from assembly arrangements, product development, 3D scanning, dimensional confirmation and reverse engineering inter alia.
The majority of industries industries find ROMER's products enormously functional in several procedures including verification applications, inspections and quality control. After all, they have demonstrated that using ROMER products resulted to faster cycles in inspection, increase in manufacturing proficiency, drop of scrap and improvement in the total manufacturing and production process.
Over 100 industries have gained and continue to gain through ROMER products like those in the business of defense, large machinery, tube bending, molded plastics, automotive, flight, furniture and several others.
It all started when the initial jointed, multi-axis arm for tube assessment was patented in 1973 by ROMER originator Homer Eaton, who moreover originated Eaton Leonard Corporation. The industries desired a transportable inspection and measurement solution and ROMER responded to that need. After nearly thirty-seven years, ROMER's original innovation was a predecessor to the advanced portable metrology solutions built by ROMER today.
The portable jointed arm was actually introduced in 1986 after the formation of ROMER SARL by Eaton and Romaine Granger. This led to the creation of ROMER, Inc. to market to North American and outside it the products from ROMER France. Trade grew rapidly for ROMER with the introduction in the United States of the 1000 Series Portable CMM.
ROMER's reach increased in 2000 after a marketing arrangement was entered by ROMER France and ROMER USA which permitted each company to market their products into the historical territory of the other. ROMER USA started to sell its products outside North America in March 2000 through the establishment of CimCore. Its products are likewise marketed in Mexico, Canada and the US.
With its marketing arms primed, ROMER started to introduce one product after another beginning with the transportable 2000i high accuracy CMM, the GridLOK 3D system for large volume measurement and the portable STINGER CMM in 2001. Afterwards the new and improved portable CMM-3000i, the SpaceLOK and the low cost transportable CMM-New Stinger II in 2002.
The first real-time laser scanning inspection system known as LSI system, the 3000iSC and the TooLOK was introduced by ROMER in 2003 and the Infinite Arm in 2004.
ROMER was then bought by Hexagon AB in 2004 which paved the way for the transfer of ROMER to Michigan, USA at the Hexagon Metrology Precision Center the following year. The purchase did not slow ROMER from innovating as it formed Hexagon Metrology Portable Metrology Group by joining forces with the Leica Geosystems Metrology Group in 2006.
ROMER's claim to the "Infinite Rotation" feature in their products in the U.S. market has been sustained once again when a subsequent re-examination certificate was issued by the U.S. patent offices to ROMER.
With its merger to Hexagon Metrology, Inc, in 2009, ROMER has become known as a Division of Hexagon Metrology. The business has continuously advanced its Quality Management System from the time it was registered for ISO 9001, resulting in a greater customer satisfaction rate.