Patented technology used to test 3-D additive manufactured parts<\/p>\n
Albuquerque, N.M. – July 13, 2020 \u2013 Vibrant today announced a partnership with Airbus to employ its revolutionary Process Compensated Resonance Testing (PCRT) on additive manufactured Airbus A350 door latch shafts. Airbus Helicopters recently shifted from manufacturing the parts via traditional machining to more advanced 3-D printing additive manufacturing. Vibrant\u2019s solution is currently under investigation to allow the aircraft manufacturer to save considerable time and cost while ensuring same quality final products.
\n\u201cVibrant\u2019s PCRT allows Airbus to quickly and economically test every single part at the end of each of the four steps of manufacture, which in turn allows for early detection of anomalies and cost savings,\u201d said Thomas K\u00f6hler, managing director of Vibrant. \u201cThe current industry practice for testing these parts calls for several nondestructive and destructive testing processes. PCRT is planned to reduce this effort and uncover quality deviations during manufacturing process.<\/p>\n
Vibrant\u2019s proprietary PCRT measures the resonance frequencies of whole parts, combining the collection of broadband resonance data in the ultrasonic frequency range with advanced pattern recognition to produce an accurate, fast, and automated nondestructive inspection. The pattern recognition and scoring tools return an automated PASS\/FAIL result that requires no operator interpretation, allowing for rapid, confident testing.
\nRunning in parallel with Airbus\u2019 current computed tomography (CT) nondestructive inspections and destructive coupon testing, Vibrant will develop a fingerprint to show the similarity of each part to what is qualified as a normal part. Once developed, these baselines will be used by Airbus to test each part after every step of manufacture.<\/p>\n
\u201cAdditive manufacturing is a new and exciting technology being embraced by many companies around the world,\u201d K\u00f6hler said. \u201cCompanies are learning how to make this a productive part of their operations. The PCRT program helps them reduce testing and waste costs while increasing end part reliability.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Vibrant PCRT program will run at Airbus for a six- to eight-month trial period to demonstrate its efficiency, accuracy, and cost-savings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Patented technology used to test 3-D additive manufactured parts Albuquerque, N.M. – July 13, 2020 \u2013 Vibrant today announced a partnership with Airbus to employ its revolutionary Process Compensated Resonance Testing (PCRT) on additive manufactured Airbus A350 door latch shafts. Airbus Helicopters recently shifted from manufacturing the parts via traditional machining to more advanced 3-D […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-company-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibrantndt.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibrantndt.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibrantndt.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibrantndt.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibrantndt.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibrantndt.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1981,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibrantndt.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392\/revisions\/1981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibrantndt.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibrantndt.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibrantndt.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}