Track: Digital Manufacturing

Abstract

The use of photogrammetry in the manufacturing process is one of the most promising quality control techniques in the industry. In this paper, we Assess the possibility of integrating scanning technology, namely, Spider 3D scanner and inspection software called Control-X software to aid local aerospace manufacturing company in the development of their inspection and quality control process. The Spider 3D scanner is an example of the evolving technology that was found useful to our research project. The scanner can extract the measurements of parts providing readings with high accuracy up to three decimal places without any errors. In addition, the Control-X software is used for several applications, however, inspection features such as reverse engineering and quality control features are found possible using the integration of these two technologies. As comparing between the conventional methods and the latest photogrammetry technology is used to develop this research. The results of this research project show that measurements are accurate and within the acceptable range of error in terms of linear geometric features. On the other hand, Photogrammetry is found superior compared to manual methods in terms of inspection of form and shape geometrical features dimensions such as, length, thickness, and various other feature of interest.