Full-Field 3D Scanning for Seamless Quality Assurance

Doncasters has a long tradition. Almost 250 years after its founding, the company serves the world's leading original equipment manufacturers in the aerospace, industrial gas turbine and specialty vehicle sectors.

Specialising in the manufacture of turbine blades using the vacuum casting process, Doncasters Precision Castings Bochum offers a range of superalloys. Customer requirements for the suppliers of industrial gas turbines are constantly increasing because of ever more complex blade geometries.

In order to obtain accurate measurements, Doncasters chose ATOS 5 sensor technology. The fast and full-field digitization of cast, ceramic, and wax models in 3D enables accuracy analyses and thus minimizes the subsequent risk of failure of industrial gas turbines in operation.

Full-surface data acquisition and visualization of blade geometries

Turbine blades from Doncasters are used in technically demanding applications. Regardless of the application, the turbines must operate efficiently and reliably. Extensive quality assurance measures are in place at Doncasters to meet these exacting requirements.

To meet the demands of increasingly complex blade designs, 3D data capture of the internal and external geometries is essential. Doncasters uses ATOS 5 sensors both manual and automated in the ZEISS ScanBox Series 5 for precise, full-surface data. With the intuitive ZEISS INSPECT software, the captured data can be analyzed using a nominal-actual comparison. Deviations can be quickly identified and expensive scrap can be selected early in the process.