Spanish marine repair firm eliminates handling bottlenecks and improves inspection coverage using portable metrology-grade 3D scanning.
When spiffy, high-tech, high-performance propellers go into the prop shop, they’re carefully restored to their original shape with sophisticated, computerized propeller repair tools, right? Well, no.
Years after the space race, propeller design remained a sea-trial-and-error endeavor: haul, tweak the props, relaunch, sea-trial, repeat. Finally, the U.S. Navy paid ...