Case Study: Max Aerostructures reduces CMM inspection time with Hexagon HP-L-10.10

Increasing CMM utilisation and decreasing measurement turn time with the HP-L-10.10

Max Aerostructures, an aerospace parts manufacturer, faced significant bottlenecks in its quality assurance process. The company’s goals were to reduce long inspection run times on large components and to replace tactile measurement with a non-contact method. Their existing CMM inspection using a tactile probe could take an entire day for large parts with thousands of points to measure, making it difficult to achieve their target of a two-hour turnaround. To address this challenge, they turned to vendor Hexagon for a new inspection technology solution.

Hexagon implemented its HP-L-10.10 laser scanning sensor with SHINE technology. This solution provided an extremely fast, non-contact method for capturing high-density data, dramatically reducing measurement times. As a result, Max Aerostructures recorded a reduction in inspection time from 45 minutes with a previous scanner to just 7 minutes with the HP-L-10.10. This 70% overall reduction in inspection time eliminated capacity constraints, allowed for in-process checks, and enabled the quality team to proudly guarantee their two-hour turnaround promise to customers.

Max Aerostructures Quality Assurance Department

Matt Price

Quality Supervisor