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Like most business owners, Erich Elendt, Co-Owner of Elba Tool Company, Inc., in Illinois, USA, is always looking for ways to cut costs without sacrificing quality.
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Manufacture and Overhaul of Turbine Components
The Solution
- The damaged areas on the blade tips or leading edges are rebuilt by applying a welding bead to the effected area.
- Each blade is located in a precision fixture.
- The blade is then inspected on a CMM or by using On Machine Verification (OMV) right on the machine tool.
- If no CAD data exists then the blade can be reverse engineered from point cloud inspection data. Alternatively a morphing process can be applied to the original CAD data, aligning the nominal data with the actual shape of the blade.
- New CNC toolpath data is then created to machine away any excess weld.
- A finish buffing operation is used to blend the remaining weld bead into the airfoil shape.
