Analyzing, Testing, Measuring

Whatever it is you’re making, industrial computed tomography (CT) scanning— when combined with data analysis and visualization capabilities of Volume Graphics software—provides the final word on quality assurance and the supply of competitive products to your customers. By accurately representing both outer surfaces and inner structures, CT offers the unique possibility of getting a full understanding of your product's quality, whether it's an engine block or solder joints on printed circuit boards.

Because CT reconstruction produces a complete representation of a component in 3D based on a large number of 2D X-ray images, CT allows you to answer even the most complex questions about the external and internal structures of a component and its material properties. The process of CT scanning is fast, sensitive, reliable, non-contact, and non-destructive. You can apply it at any stage of production, from prototyping to testing inline on the shop floor. The variety of potential applications for industrial CT data analysis is broad and continually expanding. 

The voxel is key to the CT scan. When an X-ray beam’s high-energy photons pass through their target, some are absorbed while others scatter, but the remaining photons strike the detector screen opposite the X-ray source. They then energize the (two-dimensional) pixels there in proportion to the density of the material being scanned as well as its thickness and attenuation values, generating a series of grayscale images. Software then reconstructs those millions of pixels into three-dimensional voxels, which make up a comprehensive, three-dimensional visualization of the scanned object. Yet to get measurements, find defects, create meshes, or perform simulations, you need the advanced analysis and visualization software provided by Volume Graphics.

With its fully integrated CT reconstruction function, Volume Graphics offers a seamless connection from the CT scanner to the comprehensive analysis and measurement functions of its software. Moreover, the software works with different CT systems from various manufacturers. Most major CT system providers sell Volume Graphics software together with their hardware. In addition, we rely on a worldwide network of distributors to serve our customers around the globe.

Like many of our customers, you too can save time and money by using industrial CT. This highly precise, non-destructive technology looks inside your products and finds defects that would otherwise remain hidden when using other inspection methods. However, industrial CT can only reveal its full potential when combined with the right software. Volume Graphics software is your key to unlocking this potential. Customers use our software on objects small and large, simple and complex. It works on parts made of metal, plastic, and composite materials—or all of them together. 

Performing analysis tasks directly on voxel data not only opens up possibilities that go way beyond conventional destructive or other non-destructive methods—it also comes with notable efficiency benefits.*