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Discover how component analyses reveal optimization opportunities in all phases of the quality cycle - from development support and preventive measures in production to final quality control.
Digital component analysis
All analysis options at a glance
Regardless of whether it concerns the development of parts, the preparation of their production or quality control during production: digital component analyses offer enormous advantages, as they provide absolute certainty on virtually all issues relating to quality. Here you will find an overview of all the possibilities and advantages:
If you have to open a component, you often destroy the key clues as to why it is not working properly. With digital component analysis, components can be examined non-destructively for damaged areas and faults – an invaluable advantage in the event of complaints.
Subvoxel-accurate methods can capture surface features more accurately than conventional, voxel-based approaches. This leads to more precise results, especially when analyzing small or fine structures that might otherwise be lost. This also means more precise details in the digital reconstruction of complex contours and surfaces, which enables errors to be detected or avoided much earlier in production.
Being able to look and reliably measure where no sensor can reach: this provides ultimate certainty about the quality of a component.
The comparison between the CAD data as a production specification and the digitally analyzed component reveals how well tolerances and proportions are adhered to during production. This can be done either by using design data or by digitizing a sample component in advance.
Does the component have blowholes, inclusions or excessive porosity? Instead of making rough estimates based on destructive component examinations, computer tomography can provide precise answers to these questions for each component.
Have the required wall thicknesses been reached inside a component? Without digital component analysis, this could only be determined by destroying the part. Reliable analysis using computer tomography makes it possible to prove that each component meets the quality requirements on the inside as well.
Are the fibers in the material aligned in the way that makes the most sense for the design? This is an essential quality question, for example in the case of glass fibers as a reinforcing element in mechanically stressed components. The answer is provided by the analysis of a digitally captured component.
STL files, which describe a surface using linked triangular surfaces, are essential for rapid prototyping, 3D printing and reverse engineering. They enable precise measurements and target/actual comparisons between CAD data and digital representatives of digitally recorded components, and we generate such data using computer tomography, possibly in combination with other measurement methods such as tactile measurement. You can find out exactly which methods we use here:
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