Knowing your engineered formats and output options is an important first step in understanding our scanning process. We’ll help you determine the best delivery method by discussing your intended use for the dataset. From scan to model, there are four key methods to consider for a successful project. 1. Raw...
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Correcting Warpage in Molded Parts
A tooling manager who creates molds, a CT scan, and a little art are the ingredients for our modus operandi today. This is the story of a high-level, problem-solving case of correcting warpage in molded parts to bring them into tolerance. The tooling manager brought us a small plastic gear....
New Standards for Medical Device Connector to Prevent Catastrophe
The luer is a small-bore connector or fitting for leak-free connections used in intravascular applications or hypodermic applications of medical devices. For example, syringes, IV lines, and feeding tubes. The luer was invented by Karl Schneider and gets its name from a 19th-century German medical instrument maker Hermann Wülfing Luer....
Calibrating Borosilicate Glass Tubes: A New Method
Our customer called twenty different labs and executed an extensive search. They had a 36″ glass tube from a piece of equipment that is no longer manufactured, no longer calibrated, and no longer supported. It is a piece of a precision measuring instrument. They needed this borosilicate glass tube flowmeter...
Plastics Manufacturer & NPC: Doing Our ‘Part’ to Ease Covid Patients.
A lot of our stories start like this… We had a customer with a problem. This time, we had a plastics manufacturer with a broken tool. The manufacturer wanted to make a new tool to expand their capacity to manufacture parts for a cpap machine, or continuous positive airway pressure...
Digital 3D X-ray Images Save Glow Plugs
Are you a grill master or a weekend warrior? Do you know about the advantages of pellet grilling? What in the world does this have to do with anything we do at Nel Pretech you ask. Ok, we’re getting to that. You see, there is a glow plug which provides...
NDT and the Industrial Radiography Revolution
In this month’s edition of Quality Magazine, follow along with Nel Pretech Corporation’s President David Nelson as he outlines why and how NDT (non-destructive testing), and industrial radiography are moving to the forefront of modern metrology. David’s article can be found on pages 18 and 19 of the special NDT...
Dimensional Analysis – A CT Scanning Application
What is Dimensional Analysis? At Nel Pretech, we are flipping the value proposition for CT Scanning on its head utilizing Dimensional Analysis. When you think of CT Scanning, what is the first thing that comes to mind? Our best guess is that you have heard of CT Scanning in the...
How CT Scanning Uncovers Part Flaws
CT Scanning – A Manufacturer’s Best Friend Computed Tomography, or CT Scanning for short, allows Engineering Services & Metrology firms like Nel Pretech to be able to access the inner details of products or parts without the need to disassemble or destroy said part. So, manufacturers, why is this important...
