Traditional Inspection Process of Sheet metal parts
Sheet metal stamped parts are notoriously hard to manufacture. This is due to various problems like spring back, wrinkles, tears in the sheet, etc. As well, once they are made, the traditional process was to clamp them down in a checking fixture and check/inspect each feature. For example holes and slots would be done one by one on a CMM machine. Further, this could require manual movement of the CMM probes all over the areas of interest, and manually measuring and inspecting the part. This is very time-consuming and laborious work.
The advent of the 3D Scanning and Inspection process
Accomplishing the same task with 3D white light scanning, we are able to capture millions of measurement points. The resulting 3D digital inspection ensures substantial time savings in the quality control, inspection, design, and development cycles. And the 3-dimensional scanned data covers each feature on the part more thoroughly than the CMMs could do. Some of our unique capabilities include 3d investigation and study of dimensions across any part. This is done by examining the 3-dimensional measurements of the scan data in a 3D Metrology software. With detailed color plots, boundary analysis, GD&T callouts, three-dimensional measurements, and feature analysis, and lots more, 3D scanning with digital inspection is the way to go.
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