Inventisan engineering company specializing in digital design, chooses the 3D scanner from Noomeo to take physical geometric measurements of alternator stator bars in power generation plants on behalf of its customer Alstom.
" We were looking for a digital solution to complement the manual method. Intervention on the alternator is complex, as certain parts are inaccessible to us due to their geometry. Thanks to Noomeo's 3D sensor, we can take measurements on complex shapes, such as a "bar involute", and digitize a stator bar in its entirety. We carried out our first measurements with the OptiNum scanner on General Electric machines in the USA at the end of 2010. There were around a hundred measurements to be made, which took us less than three hours. We repatriated the point cloud file to a CATIA module and carried out RDS surface reconstruction to obtain a 3D CAD model. "explains Pascal Breniaux, founder and managing director ofInventis. This American campaign was initiated by KeonysEurope's leading distributor and integrator of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions from Dassault Systèmes the company had offered Inventis to test the Noomeo to upload digitized data to CATIA for reverse engineering (creation of a CAD model of an existing part).
" The OptiNum 3D scanner is lightweight, autonomous, nomadic and highly efficient when it comes to digitizing complex parts, making it ideally suited to the requirements of the engineering professions. Noomeo has been developing the 3D sensor for 3 years, to optimize the operational efficiency of OptiNum in conjunction with Dassault Systèmes PLM tools in a reverse engineering process. "says André Joly, Director of Operations for Noomeo.
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