Focus Area: Enhanced Inspection

Contact

Mariano Marks
mariano.marks@metronor.com
248-345-6157

Metronor is an ISO 9001-certified high technology company with offices in the USA, Norway, and Germany. With over 30 years of expertise in portable metrology, our technology empowers users to measure, align, and scan large-scale assemblies from aerospace structures to automotive tooling as well as industrial fixtures and tubes. Our systems provide high accuracy and precision without using any stickers, markers, or references. Our modular camera-based systems are robust, flexible, and easily upgraded and customized to meet evolving production demands.

Portable probing and portable laser scanning solutions

Problem Statement:

Pipes and tubes need to be replaced with an exact replica to ensure fitment. Traditional methods are slow and removing a pipe causes it to unflex making it harder to measure and ensure its replacement. The locations of pipes and tubes are often in inaccessible places further complicating obtaining a digital twin.

Furthermore, when pipes are bent, pipes of different materials and thicknesses will vary when trying to hone in the bending process. Inconsistencies in bending results in pipes that won’t fit which wastes time and materials.

Technology Solution Statement:

  • Metronor has devised a shipyard solution to specifically tackle this challenge.
  • Clamping a camera rather than using a standard tripod and using a shorter Lightpen for probing in more cramped environments ensure that pipes and flanges are measured and reverse engineered properly. The system case also includes a battery for environments where electricity isn't readily available.
  • Measure pipes of any size directly on tube benders and send corrections back to the tube bender.

Benefits Statement:

  • The Metronor system is an easy-to-use, sticker-free, industry proven solution that provides accurate and precise data both in the lab and the shop floor.
  • Our highly customized, portable solutions can adapt to applications from small to large-sized parts resulting in less line-of-sight issues when measuring due to the ability to use multiple cameras and long probe extensions.
  • Direct interfaces with metrology software means the raw data is provided for analysis and less time is taken transferring data over.