Casting is one of the important processes of contemporary industrial production, and many excellent casting companies have emerged in my country.
In this issue, we will go to one of the top 100 comprehensive foundry companies in China to learn about the story behind its size quality control.
This casting company has a history of more than 550 years and is a leading enterprise in the casting sub-field. Its ability to produce a large number of excellent casting products is inseparable from its good quality management system . In the casting size control module, the casting company is equipped with a variety of measurement tools, including three-coordinate detection equipment and various measuring tools, but lacks an efficient full-size detection method for casting products .
In order to create a complete quality inspection process, the foundry company and Xianlin Tianyuan cooperated to adopt the FreeScan UE laser handheld three-dimensional scanner for full-size and efficient detection of casting products .
Through FreeScan UE, complete three-dimensional data of the casting can be obtained very smoothly and quickly. By importing the data into the detection software, you can detect the appearance dimensions of the entire product , including whether deforms , whether has contraction and expansion, etc.
At the same time, FreeScan UE's detection is very efficient . A casting with a height of about 50cm, can complete the full-size detection in a few minutes, and issue a related full-size detection report, greatly speeding up the detection efficiency.
In this issue, the editor was fortunate to enter the testing room of the foundry company and interviewed Manager Wu, the head of the testing room.
Dialogue detection engineer
Question: Manager Wu, how is your overall feeling about using FreeScan UE?
Answer: has only six words in overall feeling: is fast, accurate and convenient . The highest accuracy of this device is 0.02mm, which is very good for our casting products and casting molds. Then, the most important thing is high efficiency, especially the software is constantly upgrading to continuously improve our efficiency, which is very friendly.
Question: Manager Wu, can you introduce the software upgrade content you mentioned? I was deeply impressed by
. After using it for a while, the technical engineer of Tianyuan told us that the software version was upgraded and the "linear selection" function was added. With this function, the efficiency of data processing has been greatly improved. Now our detection of each piece can save 50 seconds for . For example, the detection time of a piece was originally 5 minutes, but now it is 4 minutes and 10 seconds. In the past, 12 pieces were detected in an hour, but now 14.4 pieces can be detected in an hour. In one day, our work efficiency can be improved by 20% .
"Line Selection" function
Users can directly draw straight lines to create planes, quickly deleting unnecessary data in the area below the plane.
Question: Manager Wu, I see that your company is equipped with a three-coordinate device. So, during use, what is the difference between three-coordinate and FreeScan UE?
Answer: I think the two have their own advantages, complement each other, and the three coordinates have high accuracy, but during use, faces irregular shapes and the detection is very complicated. If 3D scan , it is very portable to use and the accuracy also meets the requirements of castings. We now use both devices. When the accuracy requirements are very high, we will use three coordinates. In most other cases, we use FreeScan UE.
Question: Manager Wu, joined FreeScan UE, what changes have been made to the dimension inspection of our casting product?
Answer: is of great significance, and our detection process is more perfect and standardized. Especially in our finished casting inspection. In the past, due to the detection methods, we had random inspections, and the number of inspections was relatively small. Now with this device, the number of that can be detected is greatly increased by . For some parts that have strict requirements on size, we have the ability to conduct full inspection of , and we can also quickly issue corresponding three-dimensional detection reports to customers .
casting data display
Accurate, efficient and fast. FreeScan UE has become a good way to detect full-size casting products, building an important "line of defense" for product appearance and size control. At the same time, FreeScan UE and other measuring tools have leveraged their respective advantages and flexibly responded to different testing scenarios, and jointly built the foundry company's complete quality inspection process to jointly help it develop continuously.
