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Edison Quality Inspection Services (QIS) has several CATIA workstations to cater to the growing number of industries
that require inspection directly from the CATIA model.
Developed by Dassault, the French aircraft company and IBM, CATIA is fully capable of design, solid modeling,
and manufacturing. Most Boeing aircraft are modeled in CATIA prior to the start of manufacturing. Everyone involved
in the process uses the same model. This eliminates confusion and individual interpretations of drawings or typical
IGES translation problems.
With CATIA, designers check for interference and problems before they occur in the fabrication stage. Engineering
drawings are created and tooling and jigs are designed for part manufacture. The Numerical Control programming
package, called NCMILL is used to generate the programs to cut the parts. After manufacture, QIS will inspect the
parts per the CATIA model.
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QIS creates the required inspection points on contoured surfaces or holes required by engineering drawings or standards
invoked by our customers. Then NCMILL is used to generate XYZIJK inspection point data which is downloaded to our
CMM's for inspection.
The CATIA graphic link to inspection is also advantageous in the area of reverse engineering. We can scan your
part and upload the data to our CATIA system to develop complex surfaces or solid models. We can also take geometric
data (yours or ours) and insert it directly into the CATIA model to perform a "Best-Fit" to the nominal
part surfaces.
Edison Quality Inspection Services makes the inspection process easy.
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