ROMER Aspiring For Quality From The Outset

If you are employed in the manufacturing industry then you have probably come across one of ROMER’s 3D measuring arms. They are truly used the wold over from assembly arrangements, product development, 3D scanning, dimensional confirmation and reverse engineering inter alia.Nearly all industries find ROMER’s products extremely useful in various procedures including verification functions, inspections and quality control. After all, they have established that using ROMER products brought faster cycles in inspection, increase in manufacturing efficiency, reduction of scrap and improvement in the total manufacturing and production process.Over one hundred industries have profited and continue to profit from ROMER products like organizations in the business of national defense, heavy equipment, tube bending, molded plastics, automobile industries, flight, furniture and various others.It all began when the earliest jointed, multi-axis arm for tube assessment was patented in 1973 by ROMER originator Homer Eaton, who moreover founded Eaton Leonard Corporation. The industries wanted a portable inspection and measurement solution and ROMER responded to that demand. After almost  37 years, ROMER’s premier innovation was a precursor to the advanced portable metrology solutions created by ROMER today.The portable jointed 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. Trade 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 arrangement was entered by ROMER France and ROMER USA which allowed each company to sell their products within the historical territory of the other. ROMER USA started to market its products outside North America in March 2000 through the establishment of CimCore.  Its products are likewise sold in Mexico, Canada and the US.With its marketing arms in position, ROMER began to introduce one product after another beginning with the transportable 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 portable CMM-3000i, the SpaceLOK and the low cost portable 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 the company 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 claim to the “Infinite Rotation” feature in their products in the U.S. market has been sustained once again when a subsequent re-examination certificate was issued by the U.S. patent offices to ROMER.With its merger to Hexagon Metrology, Inc, in 2009, ROMER has become known as a Division of Hexagon Metrology. The company has continuously bettered its Quality Management System since the time it was registered for ISO 9001, resulting in a higher customer satisfaction rate.