Description of Business	3 Months Ended
Mar. 28, 2015
Description of Business	NOTE 1 – DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS FARO Technologies, Inc. and its subsidiaries (collectively “FARO,” the “Company,” “us,” “we” or “our”) designs, develops, manufactures, markets and supports software driven, three-dimensional (3-D) measurement, imaging and realization systems. We sell the majority of our products through a direct sales force across a broad number of customers in a range of manufacturing, industrial, architecture, surveying, building construction and law enforcement applications. Our FaroArm^®, FARO Laser ScanArm^®, FARO Gage, FARO Laser Tracker™, FARO 3D Imager AMP, and their companion CAM2^® software provide for Computer-Aided Design, or CAD, based inspection and/or factory-level statistical process control and high-density surveying. Together, these products integrate the measurement, quality inspection, and reverse engineering functions with CAD software to improve productivity, enhance product quality and decrease rework and scrap in the manufacturing process. Our FARO Focus^3D and FARO Freestyle^3D laser scanners, and their companion SCENE and FARO forensic software, are utilized for a wide variety of 3-D modeling, documentation and high-density surveying applications, including in two of our key vertical markets – architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) and law enforcement.

Description of Business

3 Months Ended

Mar. 28, 2015

NOTE 1 – DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS

FARO Technologies, Inc. and its subsidiaries (collectively “FARO,” the “Company,” “us,” “we” or “our”) designs, develops, manufactures, markets and supports software driven, three-dimensional (3-D) measurement, imaging and realization systems. We sell the majority of our products through a direct sales force across a broad number of customers in a range of manufacturing, industrial, architecture, surveying, building construction and law enforcement applications. Our FaroArm^®, FARO Laser ScanArm^®, FARO Gage, FARO Laser Tracker™, FARO 3D Imager AMP, and their companion CAM2^® software provide for Computer-Aided Design, or CAD, based inspection and/or factory-level statistical process control and high-density surveying. Together, these products integrate the measurement, quality inspection, and reverse engineering functions with CAD software to improve productivity, enhance product quality and decrease rework and scrap in the manufacturing process. Our FARO Focus^3D and FARO Freestyle^3D laser scanners, and their companion SCENE and FARO forensic software, are utilized for a wide variety of 3-D modeling, documentation and high-density surveying applications, including in two of our key vertical markets – architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) and law enforcement.