The Fastest Payback on a Major Purchase in 37 years

Art Morrison has been building frames and suspensions for the drag racing and street market for over 37 years. His company, Art Morrison Enterprises of Tacoma, Washington, was honored by the Hot Rod Industry Alliance of SEMA with the 2007 Business of the Year award for its contributions to the industry.

AME reverse engineers and builds custom car chassis and suspension components. These can be 150-in long, sometimes well over 200-in. To measure these components, they used a variety of hand tools such as calipers, plumb bobs, and even measuring tape and paper. Using these traditional tools, it took up to 70 hours to fully dimension a chassis and even then it was often wrong had to be redone.

Then a customer asked Art if he had heard of FARO's portable CMM, the FaroArm®. He hadn’t, but within a week he had learned enough. “We went from no knowledge of the FaroArm to purchasing one in less than a week,” he said.
The FaroArm allows AME to do far more accurate drawings and translate those into very accurate finished products. They can now do even the most complex parts and get great results – the first time. Frame jobs that used to take up to 70 hours and still have mistakes can now be done right in just eight. Hundreds of man-hours have been saved using the FaroArm. Time savings is money savings and AME has done both.

“This is one of the few pieces of equipment that I have purchased that you can see the results from the first day, and it just gets better,” said Mr. Morrison. “For a major purchase, it will have a faster payback than anything I’ve bought in the 37 years that I’ve been in business.”

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