by Jerry Philips | Feb 23, 2018 | Auto Glass Shape Gaging, Fiberoptic Sensors, Non-Contact Sensing, Quality Control, turnkey solution
Philtec has partnered with the Italian company Technosens to provide the complete turnkey solution for automatic production lines. The method used is to compare a production piece glass shape to the shape of a master frame as shown here. The production line glass is...
by Jerry Philips | Feb 15, 2018 | Fiberoptic Sensors, Non-Contact Sensing, Probe Misalignment, Target Tilt
Sensor probes are to be generally mounted normal (perpendicular) to a target surface. With some applications, such as displacement of a cantilever beam, the target surface rotates as deflects. In other applications, due to installation constraints, the probe can not...
by Jerry Philips | Mar 15, 2017 | Auto Glass Shape Gaging, Fiberoptic Sensors, multiplexing sensors, Non-Contact Sensing, Quality Control
The shape of curved glass windows in automated production lines is typically measured using LVDT contact sensors. When the glass is very thin and light, normal pressure of the LVDT probes tend to move the glass from the holding fixture and corrupt the measurement....
by Jerry Philips | Sep 24, 2015 | Fiberoptic Sensors, Non-Contact Sensing, Quality Control, turbine blade tip clearance, Wireless Sensors
Gas and steam turbine manufacturers of fossil power plants have long used hand-held feeler gages to measure turbine blade tip clearances and inspect the roundness of the TBC linings at access ports provided for that purpose. With new construction and at overhaul,...
