How to Cut Reverse Engineering Time in Half

Antron Engineering and Machine, a leading innovator in the highly competitive contract manufacturing marketplace, specializes in design for manufacturability. Their goal is to improve product design and lower final product costs without sacrificing quality.

Antron is set apart from other firms because of their attention to detail and has become a value-added contract manufacturing partner to the world’s leading OEMs. Some of the many parts that Antron must measure and inspect are irregular and complex parts such as the aluminum crank shafts and motor covers for various style motorcycles. Until recently, Antron was measuring these parts with a traditional fixed CMM. Unfortunately, this CMM was designed more for production use and caused Antron to build part models separately resulting in a very time consuming reverse engineering process.

Always committed to the use of new technology, Antron looked to find a better solution to their traditional CMM. There were several different solutions they looked at, but the determining factor was a product that would directly integrate with SolidWorks® software. They were able to implement a portable CMM that allowed them to reverse engineer and build native SolidWorks models without any intermediate steps. “The time savings we have realized have been a great value to us,” said Engineer Don Clifford. “I would estimate that the FaroArm has cut our engineering time by 50 percent.”

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