With the current economy and that slow recovery ahead of American businesses, corporations have been forced to look at their business model to make drastic improvements. One of the most popular used terminologies that came from business restructuring was “lean manufacturing.” Lean manufacturing is defined as a production practice that considers the expenditure of resources for any goal other than the creation of value for the end customer to be wasteful. It is a concept that encourages improved efficiencies in manufacturing and cutting down of any overhead.
In order to do this many factories and manufacturing facilities have to reassess their plants and make modifications. Thousands of square foot space full of machinery and assembly lines has to be moved, realigned or replaced. The analyzing and management of these resources is known as Facility Management.
Facility management has typically been conducted using tape measures and older methods of documenting existing equipment and floor space. It is known to be a long and arduous process. However, in recent years laser scanning technology has given hope to engineers and surveyors. Products like the FARO Laser Scanner Photon can provide a 3D point cloud of any environment within minutes. Scanning at almost a millions points per second, the Photon provides accurate documentation that be measured, layered and used to model asset improvements in any plant environment.
The article titled “Creating Virtual Factories” discusses more details on the progressive usage of laser scanning technology and the key benefits.
Many professionals like engineers, designers, artists, archeologists, and even photographers and film makers are seeing the benefits of faro technologies such as laser scanning equipment and faro arm for sale. It also made their work easier and faster.
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