With a background in imaging and inspection projects for NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, the U.S. Army Missile Command's Advanced Sensors Directorate and aerospace manufacturers, the founders of Origin indentified the need for an off-the-shelf contour measurement system, capable of being adapted to different applications.
The company was formed in 1994; and within nine months, its first laser-based, portable dimensional measurement system was sold. Since that time, over five hundred systems have been shipped to customers worldwide for their use in measuring features such as height, depth, gap, flush, length, angle and radius of curvature.
Today, the LaserGaugeŽ product line includes both portable and on-line measurement systems. Programmable flexibility is built into every unit, and that allows Origin's systems to be used for dimensional measurements in industries ranging from automotive to aerospace and manufacturing to food processing.
