The inspection report enabled the customer to quickly see the significant discrepancies in the color error map and cross sections in the two sets of dimensions and retool the dies at all locations as needed."
The customers were several suppliers of a multinational company with locations in the Far East and the USA. The casting was to be scanned and inspected to make sure its tooling produced the same exact part and the same quality wherever it was being fabricated.
The part was very intricate, with many complex free-form shapes that were critical to its function. These types of complex features are difficult and very time consuming to duplicate with a CMM. Non-contact laser scanning provided the customer with a time-efficient as-built CAD model to compare to the casting and die made in the US factory, ensuring the same high quality part.
The Solution:
GKS metrologists laser scanned the casting on the Laser Design Surveyor WS-Series system using the SLP-500 laser probe. Scanning time was only 1.5 hours. Over 5 million points were collected in the point cloud data. To laser scan the entire part took only a small fraction of the time of conventional measurement methods and was much more complete and precise.
The Results:
The part was scanned to create a point cloud of the complex shape. From the point cloud, a color-coded