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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 That perception is becoming outdated.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...

Earlier this month, EWI engineers Jerry Gould and Lindsey Lindamood received the A.F. Davis Silver Medal Award for their paper “Capacitor Discharge Spot Welding of Aluminum, Part 2: Electrode Life Assessments.” The award is given annually to works published the previous calendar year that represent the best contributions to the progress of welding in specific...

The ability to make repairs to ships at sea and easily evaluate the results while in service is a potential game-changer for the U.S. Navy. Recently, EWI tested two new technologies at sea during the NCMS Repair Technology Engagement Exercise (REPTX). The demonstrations aboard the Navy’s Self-Defense Test Ship verified the ease and effectiveness of...