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News Release from: Nextec Technologies | Subject: WIZblade
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 16 January 2004
Breakthrough For In-Line Blade
Measurement
The installation of WIZblade on TechJet's production floor has enabled TechJet's quality control specialists to measure and inspect turbine blades in-line in a fraction of the time.
TechJet Airfoils and Nextec Technologies a fully owned subsidiary of WizCom Technologies has announced the successful installation of Nextec's innovative WIZblade solution on TechJet's production floor WIZblade is Nextec's new laser scanning solution for turbine blade inspection, and it positions Nextec as a leader in this field
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 19 Jun 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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"A complete quality control procedure that until today lasted eight hours while implying a conventional CMM with a touch probe, now takes only 55 minutes," says Ronen Navick, TechJet's General Manager.
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"We are now able to double our throughput, to overcome bottlenecks at the quality control stage and to ensure a faster delivery to our customers while testing a higher sample rate of the products".
"We are offering the most advanced solution in the market to all blade manufacturers and MRO (Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul) companies, both for finished (machined) and unfinished (forged or casted) blades", says Danny Shacham, Nextec's President.
"Thanks to its technical expertise and infrastructure, Nextec succeeded to develop a breakthrough solution based on our WIZprobe laser probe, Nextec's premium motion controller and a user-friendly turn-key WIZblade software." The entire inspection process for a new blade type includes the blade CAD model input, cross sections selection definitions, Automatic Blade Alignment, transformation of coordinate system into blade orientation (i.e, the stacking axis becomes the Z-axis in space), measurement of the relevant cross sections and actual deviations from the CAD model.
A typical Automatic Blade Alignment Time is 50 seconds and each full cross section scanning (double-sided) takes eight seconds only.
During the scanning process, the system records the numerical data in real-time and displays measurement results on the screen.
The data is automatically compared to the designed values and to the required tolerances.
Thus, the measurement results and quality control reports are generated in a real time.
The WIZblade kit can serve as a turn-key solution with its own platform or can be mounted on an existing CMM platform.
Every WIZblade Kit mounted on existing CMM platform eliminates the need in purchasing additional CMMs.
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