Turbine Rotor Measurement and Assembly Platforms
Integrated Turbine Rotor Measurement and Assembly Platforms
Improve productivity and achieve higher levels of quality by reducing inspection times and the need for costly teardowns due to inefficient rotor assembly.
Typical applications include:
- Measure large circular parts such as slewing bearings and optical assemblies for all makes and sizes of aircraft engines and industrial gas and steam turbines.
- Monitor Electrical Runout (ERO) of large rotating shafts.
- Calculate circular geometry including roundness, eccentricity, diametral and planar runout, flatness and parallelism.
Why choose RPI?
Fully Automated – A motorised axis improves stability and reduces human error resulting in gauge repeatability and reproducibility (Gauge R&R) improvements of 10 x for runout and 3.5 x for concentricity measurements over manual systems.
Extensive Range – Our product range covers all aircraft engine parts from 20 – 5000kg to the largest land-based gas turbine disks weighing 15,000kgs and above.
Widespread Adoption –We are experts in the measurement of rotors and disks with hundreds of installations worldwide.
The Full Picture – We give you 4 x more inspection data collected than the competition, meaning you can truly understand the shape of your component parts and assemblies.
Fully Optimised Rotor Assembly – Our IntelliStack software is designed to optimise rotor assembly for minimum runout or un-balance or export our inspection data directly to your own stacking software.
All Inclusive – Full control to change and create your own inspection templates, as well as the flexibility to share inspection data with your customers and suppliers to enable decisions to be made quickly.
GeoSpin is a flexible inspection system that is configured with two, four or eight inspection probes and features AccuScan data acquisition software which is a full-featured Windows application specifically designed for the collection and analysis of circular geometry data. Circular geometry is critical in the design of certain types of machines and mechanical assemblies, such as aircraft engines, industrial gas turbines and steam turbines.
AccuScanTM features IntelliProbeTM technology, software algorithms designed to address problems common with circular geometry inspection, such as profile distortion due to part misalignment. This “intelligent probing” corrects for part off-centring errors of up to 2% of the part radius with negligible error. It also allows for true normal-to-axis evaluation of surface roundness. Geometrical data measured includes Roundness, Diametral Runout, Eccentricity, Flatness, Parallelism, Planar Runout and angle.
GeoSpin’s Capabilities
GeoSpin’s capabilities deliver new levels of accuracy, flexibility and performance over a wide range of inspection and assembly applications
Capabilities include:
- Air bearing
- Manual spin
- IntelliProbeTM corrects for extreme setup errors
- Advanced stacking for predictive modelling
- Sub-micron performance
- Varity of probe types to suit your application
- Specifically designed for circular geometry
- Unlimited number of surfaces can be measured
- Export PDF reports
- Export data to spreadsheet files (CSV)
- Reduces inspection times by up to 90%
- Loads of up to 1,500 kgs available
- Specifically designed for shop floor operation
AccuScan™ Inspection Procedure
GeoSpin’s Features
GeoSpin’s features have been designed to help you get the job done
Features include:
- Extremely fast and flexible
- Up to 3600 data points per revolution
- Extremely small data files
- Customised data formats
- Multi-revolution scanning
- Easy to program Inspection Templates
- Part misalignment compensation
- Internal calibration wizard
- Laser probe alignment
- Out of tolerance flagging
- Programming can be done off line, on the fly or both
- Integrated help menu
Rotor Assembly (Optional)
IntelliStack™ Advanced Stacking software for predictive modelling of multi-part rotor assemblies can significantly improve rotor assemblies by iteratively calculating each part’s optimal position with respect to its neighbours and its effect on overall rotor quality.
Key Features:
- Build for minimum Runout or Unbalance
- Compatible with all the AccuScan™ inspection systems
- Re-usable Stacking Templates
- Sub-assembly stacking, partial stacking, known or locked-position stacking
Benefits:
- Significantly improve rotor assemblies rotor quality
- Reduced assembly time
- Avoidance of costly rotor teardowns
- Lower runout and unbalance reduces the amount of balance correction required
- Minimise internal bending in a rotor
- Reduces engine vibration
- Check on joint quality
- Check on component quality
Measurement Capacity:
- Maximum measurement volume up to Ø1,600 mm x 2,400 mm
- Maximum load capacity up to 1,500 kgs
iMAP is a flexible inspection system that is configured with two, four or eight inspection probes and features AccuScan data acquisition software which is a full-featured Windows application specifically designed for the collection and analysis of circular geometry data. Circular geometry is critical in the design of certain types of machines and mechanical assemblies, such as aircraft engines, industrial gas turbines and steam turbines.
AccuScanTM features IntelliProbeTM technology, software algorithms designed to address problems common with circular geometry inspection, such as profile distortion due to part misalignment. This “intelligent probing” corrects for part off-centring errors of up to 2% of the part radius with negligible error. It also allows for true normal-to-axis evaluation of surface roundness. Geometrical data measured includes Roundness, Diametral Runout, Eccentricity, Flatness, Parallelism, Planar Runout and angle.
iMAP’s Capabilities
iMAP’s capabilities deliver new levels of accuracy, flexibility and performance over a wide range of inspection and assembly applications
Capabilities include:
- Air or combination bearing
- Motorised axis
- IntelliProbeTM corrects for extreme setup errors
- Advanced stacking for predictive modelling
- Sub-micron performance
- Varity of probe types to suit your application
- Specifically designed for circular geometry
- Unlimited number of surfaces can be measured
- Export PDF reports
- Export data to spreadsheet files (CSV)
- Reduces inspection times by up to 90%
- Loads of up to 35,000kgs available
- Specifically designed for shop floor operation
AccuScan™ Inspection Procedure
iMAP’s Features
iMAP’s features have been designed to help you get the job done
Features include:
- Extremely fast and flexible
- Up to 3600 / 4000 data points per revolution
- Extremely small data files
- Customised data formats
- Multi-revolution scanning
- Easy to program Inspection Templates
- Part misalignment compensation
- Internal calibration wizard
- Laser probe alignment
- Out of tolerance flagging
- Programming can be done off line, on the fly or both
- Integrated help menu
Rotor Assembly (Optional)
IntelliStack™ Advanced Stacking software for predictive modelling of multi-part rotor assemblies can significantly improve rotor assemblies by iteratively calculating each part’s optimal position with respect to its neighbours and its effect on overall rotor quality.
Key Features:
- Build for minimum Runout or Unbalance
- Compatible with all the AccuScan™ inspection systems
- Re-usable Stacking Templates
- Sub-assembly stacking, partial stacking, known or locked-position stacking
Benefits:
- Significantly improve rotor assemblies rotor quality
- Reduced assembly time
- Avoidance of costly rotor teardowns
- Lower runout and unbalance reduces the amount of balance correction required
- Minimise internal bending in a rotor
- Reduces engine vibration
- Check on joint quality
- Check on component quality
Measurement Capacity:
- Maximum measurement volume up to Ø3,600 mm x 6,000 mm
- Maximum load capacity up to 35,000 kgs
iMAP is a flexible inspection system that is configured with two, four or eight inspection probes and features AccuScan data acquisition software which is a full-featured Windows application specifically designed for the collection and analysis of circular geometry data. Circular geometry is critical in the design of certain types of machines and mechanical assemblies, such as aircraft engines, industrial gas turbines and steam turbines.
AccuScanTM features IntelliProbeTM technology, software algorithms designed to address problems common with circular geometry inspection, such as profile distortion due to part misalignment. This “intelligent probing” corrects for part off-centring errors of up to 2% of the part radius with negligible error. It also allows for true normal-to-axis evaluation of surface roundness. Geometrical data measured includes Roundness, Diametral Runout, Eccentricity, Flatness, Parallelism, Planar Runout and angle.
iMAP’s Capabilities
iMAP’s capabilities deliver new levels of accuracy, flexibility and performance over a wide range of inspection and assembly applications
Capabilities include:
- Air or combination bearing
- Motorised axis
- IntelliProbeTM corrects for extreme setup errors
- Advanced stacking for predictive modelling
- Sub-micron performance
- Varity of probe types to suit your application
- Specifically designed for circular geometry
- Unlimited number of surfaces can be measured
- Export PDF reports
- Export data to spreadsheet files (CSV)
- Reduces inspection times by up to 90%
- Loads of up to 35,000kgs available
- Specifically designed for shop floor operation
AccuScan™ Inspection Procedure
iMAP’s Features
iMAP’s features have been designed to help you get the job done
Features include:
- Extremely fast and flexible
- Up to 3600 / 4000 data points per revolution
- Extremely small data files
- Customised data formats
- Multi-revolution scanning
- Easy to program Inspection Templates
- Part misalignment compensation
- Internal calibration wizard
- Laser probe alignment
- Out of tolerance flagging
- Programming can be done off line, on the fly or both
- Integrated help menu
Rotor Assembly (Optional)
IntelliStack™ Advanced Stacking software for predictive modelling of multi-part rotor assemblies can significantly improve rotor assemblies by iteratively calculating each part’s optimal position with respect to its neighbours and its effect on overall rotor quality.
Key Features:
- Build for minimum Runout or Unbalance
- Compatible with all the AccuScan™ inspection systems
- Re-usable Stacking Templates
- Sub-assembly stacking, partial stacking, known or locked-position stacking
Benefits:
- Significantly improve rotor assemblies rotor quality
- Reduced assembly time
- Avoidance of costly rotor teardowns
- Lower runout and unbalance reduces the amount of balance correction required
- Minimise internal bending in a rotor
- Reduces engine vibration
- Check on joint quality
- Check on component quality
Measurement Capacity:
- Maximum measurement volume up to Ø3,600 mm x 6,000 mm
- Maximum load capacity up to 35,000 kgs