Quality & safety at the heart of the aircraft

Hyatech is a young high-tech company dedicated to the research, development, production and distribution of the critical parts of aerospace engines. The company mainly produces high-performance parts such as compressor blades, rotating and structural parts of aircraft engines (integral disks, casings, turbine disks and compressor disks, rectifiers, rotor assemblies).

To ensure the quality of the heart of the aircraft, Hyatech faces a major challenge: due to the complicated structure of the products Hyatech is involved in, such as the diffuser, a stable, efficient and precise measurement solution capable of testing complex geometries is required.

At Hyatech's request, WENZEL supplied the 5-axis high-speed measuring solution, a high-precision WENZEL LH 1210 coordinate measuring machine with Renishaw's REVO continuous high-speed probe. This solution ensures high precision measurements to ensure that part dimensions and specifications are qualified and preventative action can be taken as part of the quality assurance process if necessary.

The high-speed REVO probe requires a very precise mechanical structure, and this is precisely one of the features of the WENZEL LH1210 coordinate measuring machine (CMM). The CMM is made of granite and guarantees the same thermodynamic properties in all axes. Due to its physical properties, granite is ideally suited for use in metrology . Air bearing guides integrated into the base plate and high-precision lapped guide surfaces ensure that the system has excellent long-term stability.

The ergonomic design ensures safe and comfortable operation. The measuring range of the X- Y- and Z-axis is 1,200 mm, 2,000 mm and 1,000 mm with a maximum load weight of up to 2,300 kg. The length measurement uncertainty of only 2.0 μm (MPEE) ensures high precision. Zhang Leiyu, engineer at Hyatech explains: "The stepless indexing test enables us to test products with very complex geometries with high precision, which will bring a new breakthrough for our future development."

"Since 2015, the WENZEL 5-axis high-speed solution has greatly improved our in-house trade show efficiency and helped the company save inspection time and costs."

The WENZEL coordinate measuring machine is equipped with the 5-axis probe, which can handle higher measurement throughput and provide more precise measurement results than 3-axis measurement systems. Without the need to calibrate the probe angle separately, the REVO can flexibly perform measurement in any vector direction. In addition to 100% measurement coverage, it can also capture very complex surfaces with excellent stability. "The WENZEL 5-axis high-speed solution is able to continuously scan the fracture, surface and root profile of the turbine blade, which will significantly shorten the measurement cycle of high-precision testing and thus bring a new breakthrough for our future development."