The use of industrial CT scanning systems for metrology is one of the most significant advancements in the industry for the past 50 years: every surface, internal and external, has complete coverage with millions of points in only a few minutes. This point gathering capability is paired with state-of-the-art software to intelligently manage data and report features for fast CAD-to-part comparisons, GD&T, and reverse engineering.
Curious about what industrial CT scanning can do for you? Please take advantage of a complimentary scan where we take your part and generate a CT analysis specific to your needs.
CT Scanning Services
Metrology
Material Analysis
Assembly Inspection
Defect Detection
Get the MyVGL Viewer
What is the myVGL Viewer?
The myVGL Viewer is a free software tool for the visualization and documentation of voxel-based CT data projects. It allows users to open, view, and share analysis results instantly - no license required. With the viewer, you can generate analysis reports and visualize VG projects interactively and in 3D.
What you can do with the viewer:
- View and share datasets and reports from anywhere
- Generate reports for any analyses linked to an object
- Integrate results with Microsoft Excel to create customized, comprehensive reports
- Review data used for dimensional inspection, validation, and failure analysis
- Open datasets with unloaded grey values to reduce memory and storage demands
Why we provide sample scan files:
Sample files offer a clear example of what industrial CT data looks like and how it can be explored using the myVGL viewer. These demo datasets help engineers and quality professionals understand the reporting capabilities, the types of analysis the software supports, and the level of detail possible – especially for complex or hard-to-inspect components. Together with the myVGL viewer, these demo files make it easy to explore the capabilities CT technology has to offer.
Download the Viewer + Sample Files
Use the links below to download the myVGL Viewer and AIS sample CT datasets. Open them together to experiment with visualization and analysis tools.
Dimensional Inspection Services You Can Trust
Many of our dimensional inspection specialists are degreed engineers, and all have years of experience and certifications for GD&T and mechanical inspection.
It’s not what’s on the front of the report, it’s what's behind it.
All we make are numbers, so they better be right. And that’s why we're measurement enthusiasts: excited when we get a new piece of equipment or a new person with different expertise in the lab. Valid measurement results are critical to manufacturing processes.
- ISO 17025 Accreditation ensures the validity of measurement results.
- Failed measurement results have consequences large and small.
- Hubble Telescope mirror distortion: A $950 million measurement error.
- Failed measurement of heart pacemaker seals: 7 Deaths, $30 million settlement.
Don’t trust the report: trust what’s behind it. Let us show you the AIS difference.
Offered AIS Services
Dimensional Inspection
AIS offers dimensional inspection services for all types of manufactured parts. First article inspections, statistical analysis, and capability and gage R&R studies are our specialties. We have over 8 contact CMMs, 6 vision and multi sensor CMMs, 3 portable arm CMMs and a laser tracker with dedicated and experienced experts running them.
CT Scanning
The use of industrial CT scanning systems for metrology is one of the most significant advancements in the industry for the past 50 years: every surface, internal and external, has complete coverage with millions of points in only a few minutes. This point gathering capability is paired with state‑of‑the‑art software to intelligently manage data and report features for fast CAD‑to‑part comparisons, GD&T, and reverse engineering.
Part Digitizing & Reverse Engineering
Part digitizing is not a “one size fits all” exercise. First, an analysis of part characteristics like surface conditions, part details, or required tolerances guides us to one of our scanning technologies: portable arm laser scanning, cabinet laser scanning, structured light, interferometry, optical focus variation and confocal laser scanning.
Surface & Form Metrology
Ever shrinking part sizes and tighter tolerances require more attention than ever to a part's surface and form characteristics. Surface and form metrology requires the ability to work in the realm of nanometers. In 2018 we created a dedicated lab space just for surface and form metrology with + / - 1 degree F temperature controls and special provisions for vibration isolation. Our lab includes contact and non-contact technologies. Our results comply with ASME and ISO standards for surface and form metrology including 3D spatial parameters for surface finish analysis.
Onsite Measurement Services
Sometimes a part is simply too big to move to an offsite inspection area or even take it off the machine that is producing it. Our portable arm, laser tracker, and laser interferometer services allow you to get accredited measurement data right at your site. Dimensional inspection including GD&T, CAD to part comparisons, reverse engineering and machine geometry checks for linear, straightness, squareness, pitch and yaw can all be completed at your site with uncertainties to .000012”.
PQI Divisions
Advanced Inspection Services is a subsidiary of Productivity Quality, Inc.
