Author: Marta Varone

Creaform

Posted in News number 72, Special Measuring Systems.

Creaform Releases Pipecheck 5.1 Software for NDT Testing in the Oil and Gas Industry

Latest upgrade is compatible with the company’s recently launched HandySCAN BLACK 3D scanner.

Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany, June 11, 2019 — Creaform, a worldwide leader in portable 3D measurement solutions and engineering services, announced today the release of Pipecheck 5.1, a major upgrade to the most sophisticated non-destructive testing (NDT) software on the market for pipeline integrity inspections in the oil and gas industry.

Pipecheck 5.1 is compatible with the recently released HandySCAN BLACK, the latest generation of Creaform’s HandySCAN 3D portable 3D scanners. When used in conjunction with the HandySCAN BLACK, Pipecheck 5.1 offers:

• 3X the speed: Inspectors can benefit from exceptionally high measurement speeds, thanks to 11 blue laser crosses that decrease the time between surface acquisition and workable files.
• 4X resolution: With high-performance optics and blue laser technology, the Pipecheck solution provides unmatched resolution to capture even the minutest external pipe defects (corrosion, dents and mechanical damage).
• Unprecedented versatility: Users can perform assessments on any type of surface, including complex and shiny components, as well as in any harsh indoor or outdoor environment.
• Extremely high accuracy: Regardless of the conditions in which that data is captured, HandySCAN BLACK and Pipecheck software offer the highest accuracy possible, despite sun, dust or rain.
• Impressive ease of use: Pipecheck software and HandySCAN BLACK can be used by all pipeline inspectors, regardless of their levels of experience and expertise. What’s more: its simplicity and reliability ensure that inspection results are completely independent of the user.
“For many years, Pipecheck has been the go-to NDT software for the oil and gas industry. It allows for highly reliable surface damage diagnostics on both the inner and outer linings of pipes for the entire pipeline lifecycle,” explained Daniel Brown, Creaform’s Director of Product Management. “Pipeline integrity and safety is definitely top-of-mind across all stakeholders, including manufacturers, pipeline operators, researchers, communities and special-interest groups. Pipecheck 5.1 and HandySCAN BLACK are undoubtedly the most powerful technology solutions to mitigate the risk of pipeline damage and ensuring regulatory compliance.”

Cam 2

Posted in News number 72, Special Measuring Systems.

FARO Quantum 8-Axis and CAM2 2019 for maximum operational efficiency

The FARO Quantum 8-Axis measuring arm is the only eight-axis portable solution available on the market, which allows the part to be rotated in real time with respect to the arm. Ideal for more complex non-contact 3D measurement and scanning applications, it provides unprecedented speed of measurement and ease of use. Thanks to the eighth axis, integrated functionally but physically separate, it is possible to acquire the necessary characteristics with few movements of the arm, limiting to the minimum the need to reposition the device around large objects and reducing the time required for scanning by 40% compared to a standard 7-axis system. Combined with the 3D measurement platform CAM2 2019 it allows to reach the maximum level of performance in different sectors, defining a new standard for intelligent metrology through greater ease of use, better interactivity and flexibility and a targeted and usable intelligence.

EMO Hannover between the drop in orders and the need for investments

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Orders falling, both for the foreign market and for domestic demand. The numbers of the second quarter, which came out amid the third quarter, right at full recovery after the summer break, generated a global shock. In Germany as in Italy, two of the leading nations in the machine tool sector, braking is abrupt and obvious. In Italy, 31% less than the corresponding period of the previous year, with -43% on the domestic market and a less dramatic -28.5% on the foreign market, represent indicators of a situation that is just under a fifth lower than 2015, not exactly a record year in the Italian manufacturing industry. As far as Germany is concerned, the drop is decidedly smaller, around 20%, mainly focused on non-European markets, while in Europe the decrease in orders is around 5%. Part of the picture is the fact that for Italian manufacturing companies, Germany, especially car companies, represent a large part of foreign orders and are therefore largely a party to the drop in orders by more than a quarter.
The reasons for the decline, largely expected, but certainly surprising in proportions, especially after a generally positive 2018 and in Italy far more than positive, are varied: on the one hand the political instability weighs, which penalizes the machine tool market on a global level, to the point that in Asia and the Far East they are certainly not faring better than in the Old Continent; on the other hand, instead, the decline in the orders of the automotive industry, influenced by the conversion of the plants towards new engines, to which is added a general difficulty of the automobile market, decisively influences.

In Italy, then, industrialists complain of an intermittent policy of investment cuts, first blocked and then relaunched by the Growth Decree: in conclusion, companies are asking for stable policies with regard to hyper-depreciation and super-depreciation, practically calling for stabilization of incentives, which, by nature, would also be positive from the point of view of increased orders and purchasing power, while on the other it would establish the principle that Italian companies fail to develop the market without state aids, a principle indeed dangerous. If structural changes are to be introduced, then more than on incentives to purchase it would be advisable to intervene on tax wedge and taxes on labor.
In short, it is in a climate of substantial uncertainty, also linked to the need to introduce technological innovations relating to Industry 4.0, an action that is not easy in a period of declining orders, that we are going to Emo Hannover: an edition not among the best, both as far as the climate in the corridors is concerned, both for the actual interest of the visitors, but certainly a fundamental moment to take stock of the economic situation and the initiatives to be taken.

Editorial n°70

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It’s not easy to understand where the market is going, both in steel sector and in machine-tools sector.

It’s not easy also to identify what will be the impact of the new EU Government that has come out from the ballot boxes and which will be the future for EU Manufacturers as players in the global market.

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Special Euroblech – Data M

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Data M introduces new function “Automatic Report” for COPRA® FEA RF 2019
Booth G142, Hall 27

The Bavarian company data M is introducing their new versions of COPRA® RF and COPRA® FEA RF at EuroBLECH 2018 with various improvements, particularly the newly developed feature “Automatic Report”. This tool shortens the complete verification procedure, providing project managers as well as designers with an abundance of data about the simulated roll forming process.

Managing director Albert Sedlmaier is looking forward to meeting new and existing customers at EuroBLECH: “For years, data M has been developing soft and hardware solutions meant for process optimization and efficiency enhancement. The new releases and especially the new feature Automatic Report are further steps in this direction”.
With various auxiliary functions and customizable templates, COPRA® FEA RF 2019 allows for significant time saving. Although simulation times are reduced due to powerful CPUs, evaluation time for designers is increasing with complex projects. The templates facilitate quick and automated breakdown of results, provide numerous analysing possibilities and help with establishing a company standard.
COPRA® FEA RF 2019 pre-processes the results of the simulation geared to the respective target group, enabling the project manager to keep track or the designer to select detailed result quantities due to the reproducible templates. There is even a tailored report for the operator. By this approach, the simulation becomes the “digital twin” of the roll forming machine, providing detailed insights into the manufacturing process.

If requested, all evaluation parameter of interest will be broken down to each individual station. Particularly the designers – usually focusing on specific result quantities- will be called to attention by other important values. The “Automatic Reports” can still be standardized as desired by the customer and thus facilitate comparisons of different simulations.

The latest COPRA® RF 2019 will also be introduced at EuroBLECH. The leading design software likewise has various new functions. Designers can now mark coated or visible areas of a cross section. The primary material is more often delivered with already coated surfaces that must not be damaged by the subsequent shaping process.

The design of flower and roll tools has been shortened once again, due to the possibility of cutting in points of intersection. Additionally, the roll dimensioning can be laid out in tabular form with the coordinates of the contour points. For producers of round and rectangular tubes, COPRA® RF 2019 will automatically generate a four-roll-welding-pass.
Finally, the axis configurator allows for saving and loading of the axis positions related to each individual project. Following the “digital twin”-concept, the positions can thus be kept up to date in the machine as well as within the project.

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