If you work in the manufacturing industry then you have undoubtedly happened upon one of ROMER 3D measuring arms. They are pretty much used all over from assembly arrangements, product development, 3D scanning, dimensional verification and reverse engineering among others.

Most industries find ROMER's products exceptionally useful in several processes including verification uses, inspections and quality control. After all, they have upheld that utilizing ROMER products resulted to faster cycles in inspection, increase in manufacturing efficiency, lessening of scrap and improvement in the whole manufacturing and production process.

Over 100 industries have gained and continue to benefit through ROMER products including those in the business of national defense, large machinery, tube bending, molded plastic, automotive, aerospace, furniture and numerous others.

It all began when the first jointed, multi-axis arm for tube examination was patented in 1973 by ROMER creator Homer Eaton, who moreover founded Eaton Leonard Corporation. The industries needed a transportable inspection and measurement solution and ROMER answered that demand. After about 37 years, ROMER's first innovation was a foundation to the advanced portable metrology solutions built by ROMER currently.

The transportable articulated arm was actually introduced in 1986 after the formation of ROMER SARL by Eaton and Romaine Granger. This led to the creation of ROMER, Inc. to market to North American and outside it the products from ROMER France. Business grew rapidly 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 market their products into the historical area of the other. ROMER USA began to market its products outside North America in March 2000 through the establishment of CimCore. Its products are also sold in Mexico, Canada and the US.

With its marketing arms primed, ROMER began to introduce one product after another beginning with the portable 2000i high accuracy CMM, the GridLOK 3D system for large volume measurement and the transportable STINGER CMM in 2001. Then came the new and improved transportable CMM-3000i, the SpaceLOK and the inexpensive 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 obtained by Hexagon AB in 2004 which paved the way for the relocation of ROMER to Michigan, USA at the Hexagon Metrology Precision Center the next year. The purchase did not stop 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 U.S. market has been upheld once again when a second 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 recognized as a Division of Hexagon Metrology. The business has continuously advanced its Quality Management System since the time it was registered for ISO 9001, resulting in a greater customer satisfaction rate.