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The Smart Inspection Station™ (SiS™)
is completely configurable for accurate, comprehensive, fast and
automated dimensional inspection of precision manufactured parts.
Invite an L3I engineer to address your needs and design a solution for
your application.
You can learn more about the SiS™ by watching our SmartInspectionStation™ YouTube video.
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Myths Debunked
Most industrial gas turbine engine
manufacturers have yet to catch onto the successes now enjoyed by other
precision manufacturers, and are still wasting too much time and money
on obsolete 20th-century inspection methods and equipment.
Whichever manufacturers are
the quickest to adopt modern 21st-century quality inspection methods
will gain enormous advantage and likely come to dominate their market,
as we have seen in other industries.
Level 3 Inspection is issuing a series of educational emails intended to
address a few of the cherished myths and assumptions that have kept the
industrial gas turbine industry in the comfortable past — till now.
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Myth #1
"We've always used CMM's! They're the best inspection tool on the market!"
The Truth
CMM’s are all too common
among industrial gas turbine engine manufacturers and in their supply
chain ... but CMM's are no longer the best option.
CMM's Mislead You!
A CMM's accuracy depends on at least
three factors — repeatable fixturing properly used, diligent operator
experience, and reliable sequence programming — any of which can
introduce or compound errors. Moreover, CMM's generally collect far too
few measurement points to provide discernible surface profiles and are
not generally easy to confidently interpret. Instead of fully
visualized surface profiles, CMM’s produce tabulated data from a
relatively small number of test points, from which it’s impossible to
reliably discern meaningful shapes and patterns.
3D surface digitization through White Light Scanning (WLS), when
correctly implemented, overcomes all of these problems. When followed by
Computer Aided Inspection (CAI), it offers a wide spectrum of tangible
advantages to any manufacturing process, including visualization of
entire part geometry for greater understanding, with accuracy,
comprehensiveness, automation, and speed.
White Light Scanning (WLS) is now Fast and Automated!
Traditionally, white light scanners have
required years of experience in order to yield useful data. Many
industrial gas turbine engine manufacturers have spent substantial
capital on WLS equipment that does not provide the results,
understanding and confidence they sought to gain. Expertise in this new
field provides tremendous advantages.
With the SiS™, the CAI industry leaders at L3I have brought their
decades of application experience to bear on this problem. For the
first time, WLS and CAI reports containing thorough, accurate and useful
3D digitized surface plots can be generated in just minutes by an
in-house shop-floor technician with minimal training. The inspection
process variables have been systemized and automated, for speed and
confidence.
The SiS™ is now available to be custom-configured to meet the
needs of forward-thinking industrial gas turbine engine manufacturers
and of their supply chain. Call us today to learn how to get your SiS
solution on its way.
Learn more today.
Call 561.775.7911 today to schedule a discussion about application parameters and configuration criteria with an L3I engineer.
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