In-Process Monitoring (Page 2)

Combining video with data acquisition programs can deliver a highly sophisticated tool for diagnosing potential problems and making adjustments while fabrication is in process. There are existing high-speed camera (HSC) and data acquisition (DAQ) systems that have been custom-built, but to-date these have been cumbersome to operate and commercially unsupported. EWI has developed a new,...

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 That perception is becoming outdated.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...