If you work in the manufacturing industry then you have likely encountered one of ROMER's 3D measuring arms. They are actually 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 numerous processes including verification applications, inspections and quality control. After all, they have upheld that using ROMER products resulted to faster cycles in inspection, increase in manufacturing efficiency, lessening of scrap and improvement in the entire manufacturing and production process.Over 100 industries have gained and continue to gain with ROMER products like those in the business of military defense, heavy equipment, tube bending, molded plastics, automobile industries, aerospace, furniture and countless others.
It all started when the earliest jointed, multi-axis arm for tube assessment was patented in 1973 by ROMER forefather Homer Eaton, who moreover created Eaton Leonard Corporation. The industries wanted a portable inspection and measurement solution and ROMER answered that need. After approximately thirty-seven years, ROMER's original innovation was a forerunner to the cutting edge portable metrology solutions manufactured by ROMER currently.
The portable articulated arm was actually presented in 1986 after the formation of ROMER SARL by Eaton and Romaine Granger. This led to the formation of ROMER, Inc. to market to North American and outside it the products from ROMER France. Business grew quickly for ROMER with the introduction in the United States of the 1000 Series Portable CMM.
ROMER's reach expanded in 2000 after a marketing agreement was entered by ROMER France and ROMER USA which let each company to sell their products within the historical region of the other. ROMER USA began to sell its products outside North America in March 2000 through the creation of CimCore. Its products are likewise marketed in Mexico, Canada and the US.
With its marketing arms in position, ROMER started to introduce one product after another starting with the portable 2000i high accuracy CMM, the GridLOK 3D system for large volume measurement and the portable STINGER CMM in 2001. Then came the new and improved transportable 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 acquired by Hexagon AB in 2004 which paved the way for the transfer of ROMER to Michigan, USA to the Hexagon Metrology Precision Center the following year. The acquisition 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 assertion to the "Infinite Rotation" feature in their products in the United States market has been sustained once again when a second re-examination certificate was issued by the U.S. patent offices to ROMER.
With its union to Hexagon Metrology, Inc, in 2009, ROMER has become well-known as a Division of Hexagon Metrology. The business has continuously bettered its Quality Management System since the time it was registered for ISO 9001, resulting in a greater customer satisfaction rate.