(Delcam International Inc.: Windsor, Ontario, Canada) -- Inspection with PowerINSPECT is helping J.P. Pattern, a machining and pattern-making shop, with its contribution towards building machines that the contractor, the Auburn University Engineering Department Fusion Laboratory, hope will eventually solve the world’s energy problems with nuclear fusion. Cast and machined components from the company will fit over the ends of the toroidal pressure vessel at the heart of the device.

“We are machining a set of 10 identical aluminum castings whose main function is to guide the windings of the wire that makes up the helical coils, which generate the magnetic field,” says John Puhl, president of J.P. Pattern. His main concern is making sure that the ten castings are exactly to specification so that each set of five will fit together exactly as designed.

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