FARO, Creaform combine to form two new business units

FARO Technologies and Creaform, businesses of AMETEK, Inc., are announcing a major new chapter in their evolutions which will reframe how industries approach metrology and reality capture. As of today, FARO’s 3D Measurement business segment combines with Creaform, giving rise to FARO CREAFORM, a business unit delivering rigorous dimensional measurement solutions providing practical certainty so manufacturing and maintenance teams can act decisively. In parallel, FARO’s reality capture business segment will become FARO INSIGHT, a business unit that will focus on delivering world-class reality capture solutions transforming the physical world into actionable insights that teams can trust. By design, this reorganization is intended to deliver greater value to customers, accelerate innovation, and create synergies that support growth and long-term growth.

Under the leadership of Fanny Truchon, FARO CREAFORM aims to make metrology more mobile, usable, and transformative, giving manufacturers better outcomes, a superior experience and a single point of contact for the complete portfolio. Led by Dietmar Wennemer alongside Virtek Vision, FARO INSIGHT will deliver a reality capture ecosystem that moves teams from field data to impact, enabling seamless capture, pointcloud conversion, and data management and sharing for digital twin workflows across AEC&O, public safety, and geospatial.

“FARO CREAFORM is more than a consolidation,” says Fanny Truchon, Business Unit Manager of FARO CREAFORM. “By combining the strength of two leaders, we’re opening possibilities that will empower industries to move from hindsight to foresight. FARO CREAFORM aims to become the undisputed leader in portable metrology.”

“FARO INSIGHT’s approach is simple: we want to digitize the world,” says Dietmar Wennemer, Business Unit Manager at FARO INSIGHT and Virtek Vision. “Our hardware and software solutions reduce ambiguity to help track building progress, document changes, digitize crime scenes, structures, mines, forests, and landscapes to provide insights customers can build on.”

Building on FARO’s more than 40 years of leadership in 3D measurement and reality capture and Creaform’s handheld metrology innovation since 2002, this next phase introduces a unified structure designed to ensure continuity, provide clear, timely information, and maintain the trust customers and partners expect.