In-Process Monitoring (Page 2)

To date, part fabricators have not adopted vision-based inspection technology – mostly due to the perception that it is 1) expensive, and 2) hard to implement. That perception is becoming outdated. In Integrating a Collaborative Robot and a CMM Arm for Automated 3D Scanning, automation engineer Reed Truax describes an automated, easy-to-use metrology system developed...

Errors that occur during large-scale additive manufacturing (AM) builds can be prohibitively expensive for manufacturers. Current in-line inspection methods are inefficient, but damaged and distorted end products waste too much time, material, and money. How can in-process inspection be optimized to improve productivity and ensure quality? EWI investigated this question using the laser-blown powder DED...

In-situ process monitoring has been around for a while in most manufacturing industries – from the trained eye of a supervisor to an automated manufacturing execution system. Additive manufacturing (AM) is no different; it uses sensors to provide both a better understanding of the process and valuable data that can be analyzed to infer the...