FARO Technologies Invites You to Join Its Strategic Outlook and Guidance Conference Call on the Web

LAKE MARY, Fla., April 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- FARO Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: FARO) today announced that it will host a Strategic Outlook and Guidance Conference Call. You are invited to listen to its conference call with power point slide show that will be broadcast live over the Internet on Wednesday, April 13, 2005, at 11:00 a.m. with Simon Raab, Chairman and CEO, Jay Freeland, President and COO, Barbara Smith, CFO, and Gregory Fraser, Executive Vice President, all of FARO Technologies.

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     What:    FARO Technologies Strategic Outlook and Guidance Conference Call

     When:    Wednesday, April 13, 2005 at 11:00 a.m.

Where: http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?p=irol- eventDetails&c=99722&eventID=1047567

     How:     Live over the Internet -- Simply log on to the web at the
              address above

     Contact: Sharon Trowbridge, (407) 333.9911

FARO Technologies, Inc. designs, develops, and markets software and portable, computerized measurement devices that allow manufacturers to perform 3D inspections of parts and assemblies on the shop floor. This helps eliminate manufacturing errors, and thereby increases productivity and profitability for a variety of industries in FARO's worldwide customer base. Learn more at http://www.faro.com .

If you are unable to participate during the live webcast, the call will be archived on the Web site http://www.faro.com . The call will also be archived at http://www.prnewswire.com .


     (Minimum Requirements to listen to broadcast: The Windows Media Player
software, downloadable free from
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/mp10/default.aspx , or the Real
Player Software, downloadable free from
http://www.real.com/realone/index.html?lang=en&loc=us and at least a
28.8 Kbps connection to the Internet.)


SOURCE  FARO Technologies, Inc.
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    /CONTACT:  Greg Fraser, Executive Vice President, FARO Technologies,
+1-407-333-9911, ext. 1140/
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    /Web site:  http://www.faro.com /
    /Audio:  http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?p=irol-
eventDetails&c=99722&eventID=1047567 /
    (FARO)

CO:  FARO Technologies
ST:  Florida
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SU:  CCA MAV

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