FARO Technologies, Inc. (FARO)

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FARO Earns Six-Laser Scanner Order From Quantapoint
Wednesday November 19, 6:58 am ET


LAKE MARY, Fla., Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- FARO (Nasdaq: FARO - News), the world leader in computer-aided measurement and imaging innovations, sold six high performance Photon Laser Scanners to Quantapoint, a leading provider of laser scanning software and analysis, quality control, documentation and decision-support services.
"FARO's primary value-add is providing a broad range of measurement technologies to support our customers' operations," said David Morse, FARO SVP and Managing Director for the Americas. "In this case, Quantapoint is integrating our Photon laser scanners with their own Laser Model(TM) technology and software to help their customers eliminate preventable project defects."

Citing a high demand for zero-defect services using laser scanning, Quantapoint immediately deployed all six systems for global projects with scopes ranging from entire process plants and buildings to offshore platforms and nuclear facilities.

"FARO has a long history of successful measurement technologies," said Eric Hoffman, Founder of Quantapoint. "The very clear and 'crisp' output from the FARO Photon makes it ideal to supplement our existing laser scanner technology and create high-resolution facility Laser Models(TM) that can be accessed directly using PRISM 3D(TM) or within various CAD packages using QuantaCAD(TM)."

The Photon, released to the public on February 26, 2008, is the third in FARO's series of high performance laser scanners. Engineered for surveyors, architects, plant managers and accident investigators, FARO laser scanners provide a fast, simple method for the 3-D data capture and measurement of large objects and environments with exceptional detail.

Quantapoint has performed more than 1,200 projects and 150,000 incident-free man-hours for architectural firms, engineering and construction companies, offshore platforms, power plants and process facilities.