Antron Cuts Reverse Engineering Time in Half

As a leading innovator in the highly competitive contract manufacturing market, Antron Engineering and Machine specializes in design for manufacturability. Specifically, this means they focus on improving product design and lowering final product costs without sacrificing quality. With these goals and with proven results, Antron has become a value-added contract manufacturing partner to the world’s leading OEMs.

Examples of the many parts that Antron must measure and inspect are the aluminum crank shafts and motor covers for various motorcycles. These parts have a variety of irregular and complex features and a large range of sizes. These parts were previously measured with a traditional fixed CMM, but this resulted in a very time-consuming reverse engineering process.

With a company goal of flexibility, diversification, and continual renewal of technology, Antron is committed to the use of new technology to answer both old and new problems. As they looked for a better solution than their fixed CMM, Antron considered several competing technologies. With the FaroArm Platinum, they were able to reverse engineer their parts and build native SolidWorks models without any intermediate steps. This reduction in needless steps resulted in a significant amount of saved time and reduced engineering costs.

As it is with any manufacturing company, time equals money and the FaroArm definitely saves them money.

“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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