Bruker Alicona is ready to showcase its absolutely automated measurement answer at this yr’s Pairs Air Present. The corporate will spotlight its software, developed in shut collaboration with MTU Aero Engines.
Among the many most crucial elements of recent plane engines are the turbine blades. That is very true concerning the small cooling holes, which might enhance service life, effectivity, and security ranges.
MTU and Bruker Alicona entered a growth partnership in 2018; the pair’s work collectively has resulted within the cooling gap answer that has been adopted by MTU in collection manufacturing. Initially, MTU turned to Bruker Alicona with a collaborative robotic (cobot) for use in optical inspection functions. Now, the Bruker Alicona µCMM is an important a part of MTU’s high quality assurance processes at its Munich facility.
“We recognised early on that Bruker Alicona’s optical 3D metrology held nice potential for our software,” stated Michael Duffek, High quality Assurance Undertaking Supervisor at MTU. “Particularly when capturing advanced geometries and enabling automation, we see clear benefits over standard strategies such because the fibre probe.”
Key options of the µCMM:
- Combines Superior Focus Variation (AFV) with Vertical Focus Probing (VFP).
- Allows non-contact 3D measurement of cooling holes (together with diameter, place, angle, minimal cylindrical size, and diffuser geometry) with out the usage of a stylus.
- Includes a custom-engineered 130mm goal.
- The Cooling Gap Bundle features a plug-in, measurement mode, and export capabilities.
- Boasts a 3D alignment (3-2-1, line, gap).
- The inclusion of the MetMaX software program platform gives teach-in-based automation.
The automated workflow consists of 4 steps: load the CAD mannequin, outline reference factors, educate within the holes, and begin the measurement. This permits a extra environment friendly serial inspection of a number of cooling holes. MTU often inspects three completely different blade sorts with the answer.
Bruker Alicona and MTU’s collaboration
The event of the answer got here with excessive technological calls for like software program stability and teach-in processes. Nonetheless, by working collectively on equal footing, the pair have been capable of discover options.
“What satisfied us was not solely the know-how but additionally the willingness to develop with us,” added Duffek. “Bruker Alicona was all the time open to suggestions – that constructed belief.”
Attendees of the Paris Air Present (16-22 June) can expertise the cooling gap answer stay in Corridor 4, Sales space C17.
