CMM Inspection of Aerofoil and Gas Wash surfaces
No part or product is outside of our expertise and capabilities, however the aerospace industry offers some unique challenges and geometry that requires you to think a little more outside the confines of a routine training course, some shapes and their requirements for validation, in particular aerofoil profiles offer a skilled CMM Programmer to flex their own capabilities and sometimes come up with a new methods.
In many cases the aerofoil sections or surfaces may be a repeated feature around a particular component, this is a common occurrence found on structural parts of a gas turbine.
This offers the programmer additional scope to develop a concise routine with a generic measurement method for the sections and surfaces, along with some parametric elements to repeat an identical measurement on all associated surfaces.
One may also be limited to the existing probing options available on a customer machine or access due to the overall component shape or fixturing.
We recently undertook a CMM Programming requirement to generate a production inspection program for measuring the types of surfaces on a new customer casting for their First Article Inspection requirements.
Different CMM Programming software’s offer different capabilities, and for this sort of component and requirement, we recommend and prefer Mitutoyo’s MCOSMOS programming software and associated machines, fortunately this is the system the customer had available on site. MCOSMOS offers some unique capabilities that make the scanning and evaluation of an aerofoil section unrivalled. With in depth high level programming, the parametric and looping elements of the programming are also easy to deal with and result in a concise and efficient program.
If you need some assistance with CMM Programming of your components, please do get in touch on the Contact Us page.
We are available to program Offline or Online, for one off, short and long term contract work, and happy to consider customers all over the world.
We can offer CMM Programming for various programming languages and can help with the creation of
Production Programming
First Article Inspection Programming (FAIR)
PPAP
ISIR
Capability Studies
Reverse Engineering
Validation, Correlation and Overcheck Programs
