The Tomoscope from Werth Messtechnik is reportedly the world’s first integration of Computer Tomography (CT) with a multisensor coordinate measuring machine. This technology opens up completely new measurement possibilities by allowing quick, complete and nondestructive measurement of many features with CT, combined with the highly exact measurements of functional dimensions with tactile or optical sensors.
Industrial CT involves the capture, processing and reconstruction of a 3D workpiece from multiple views to quickly create an image of internal and external geometry.
CMMs with multisensor systems allow the operator to choose the sensor best suited to a given measuring task. This guarantees economic advantages, flexibility and higher reliability, but requires experience, is time-consuming and can require that the component to be pretreated.
The Tomoscope is unique in that tomography technology is brought together with the accuracy of a CMM. Rather than measure the size of parts, it measures the sizes, angles and diameters of the structures inside of a part — and calibration points are measured with accurate CMM sensors in the same measurement run, ensuring precision and traceability of the results.
