Creaform
Creaform’s mission is to develop, manufacture and market cutting edge portable 3D measurement and analysis technologies that increase productivity. Through its expertise and the passion and commitment of its employees, Creaform helps companies from the manufacturing industry to seamlessly create, simulate, verify, and collaborate in 3D, significantly enhancing their turnaround times and profitability.
Creaform Scanning for Damage Assessment and Repair
Problem:
- Quick, accurate, and repeatable physical damage assessment and reporting.
- Damage assessment of skins, body, structures, pressure vessels and fuel tanks.
- Support for all opaque materials, traditional metals, and composites.
- Highly portable and easy to operate for field technicians.
- Supports design of replacement parts that can be locally sourced (additive and/or subtractive manufacturing).
Technology Solution:
Creaform HandySCAN (mfg in Canada).
- Black Elite and MAX Elite
- ISO 17025 certified accuracy.
- High resolution.
- Portable (only requires power & tethers to a laptop).
Creaform VXsoftware
- Simplified interface for rapid & repeatable damage assessment replacing traditional pit gauge.
- Monitor damage over time, comparing one scan to future scans.
- Extract measurements, features, and cross-sections for reverse engineering with any professional CAD program.
- Supports scan to print.
- Compare manufactured parts to nominal CAD or “golden” scan.
Benefits:
- Scanning simplicity.
- Software and hardware are mature in 4th & 5th generations.
- Hardware interfaces have been developed for any skill level to operate with minimal training.
- eLearning online training modules available for all software and hardware on demand.
- Software modules each have similar interfaces making learning easier.
- Highly portable.
- Each scanner is in a relatively small case and does not require a heavy tripod. Setup in 2-3 min.
- Certified accuracy supporting mission readiness
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