(Nextec: Eastlake, OH) -- Nextec Laser Metrology, developer of in-process metrology solutions serving the quality inspection market, has announced its WIZblade turnkey metrology solution for rapid, precision measuring of both aerospace jet-engine blades and industrial turbine and compressor blades. WIZblade overcomes the challenges of freeform blade measurement and inspection, significantly reducing inspection time while achieving higher accuracy and sampling rates. Customers have been known to decrease the turbine blade inspection process from eight hours a day down to 55 minutes with this solution.

The large dynamic range and high accuracy of the probe makes it easy to set up the alignment loop and the airfoil cross-section path, and collect hundreds of points quickly and accurately, with no noise. This solution provides single-point precision of 12 microns and a feature precision of 2 microns (100 points best fit), meeting the highest precision requirements for blade measurement.

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