The system consists of a structured white light scanner that enables perfect control of car part design in order to minimize errors
Agfra, a company from Valencia, has developed a scanner that will measure defects in parts manufactured for automobiles with the highest possible precision. This technology consists of a structured white light scanner that enables designing automobile parts perfectly. The goal is to avoid the errors that could arise in the manufacture of car parts, according to managers of the project.
Agfra is an engineering company closely linked to Valencia’s automobile industry. As such, the major application of this system is precisely for the automobile sector. In fact, Agfra’s goal is to reach the market for suppliers of automobile parts to firms such as Jaguar, Volvo and Ford, among others.
To develop this scanner, the company has invested €300,000, which it hopes to recover in two years. Only with this business line, the firm will record revenues this year of close to half a million Euros. The forecast for 2012 is to reach one million Euros, and in 2013 to double this figure. The company’s growth expectation is to increase revenues between 15% and 20% in the forthcoming years, and to slowly increase the size of the workforce as well.
These forecasts are based on growth the company hopes to achieve in international markets. Agfra, founded in 1968, designs and manufactures machinery and tools. In recent years it has also offered advisory and consulting services for projects in machinery design.