Non-contact Displacement, Gap and Bore Measurement Markets
Capacitec supplies non-contact capacitive displacement sensors, gap sensors, and hole sensors and systems to the Aerospace, Automotive, Coating/Printing/Photocoping, Extreme Environment, High Temperature/Cryogenic and Power Generation markets worldwide.
Here are just a few examples of recent successful Capacitec customer applications.
- HPC/HPT rebuild eccentricity for CFM56, CF34-10 and others
- Fan blade length and blade tip gap measurement for GE90, CF6, RR Trent and others
- High temperature runout and thermal expansion for P&W 4000 & F135 (JSF) and MTU
- Gap measurement for shim selection for wing tie plates, skin to frame and frame gaps
- Gap measurement between airframe subsections such as wings to fuselage
- Tail section tie plates and horizontal stabilizer gap measurement for Boeing, Airbus, Northrop Grumman, Alenia, BAE, MHI, FHI and KHI
- “Mapping” bore diameter dimensions on wing tie plates for Airbus A318, A319 and A320
- Measuring carbon composite outer skins/frame fastening hole diameters for United Launch Alliance (ULA)
- Disc Brake Wear Analysis
- Rotor run-out (TIR), Thermal expansion
- Rotor coning, Wobble
- Rotor thickness variation (RTV)
- Plate-to-plate orientation (V-ing, barreling)
- Automotive Glass Manufacturing
Slot Die Coating Applications
- Adhesive coatings onto labels
- Chemical coatings onto films and tapes
- Photographic coatings onto films
- Manufacture of plastic tapes
- Electrolytic battery materials
- Production of composite material
Printing/Copying
- Supply of an 85" thin wand gap sensor that travelled through hidden paper paths in R&D to calculate gap tolerances
- Installation of 3 non contact displacement sensors on stiffened shims as a set up tool to measure toner bar to roller gaps prior to production
- Manufacture of automotive glass at 800°C
- Disk brake thickness variation analysis at 400°C mounted on a dynamometer or on-vehicle
- Nuclear fuel rod gap and other high radiation geometric measurements
- Satellite instrument analysis in cryogenic vacuum chambers
- Extremely thin button sensors used in magnetic fields to 5 Tesla for Particle Physics experiments.
- Laboratory testing of a magnetic shape memory alloy at 4 Kelvin and 18 Tesla!
- Disc Brake thickness variation analysis (DTV) at 750°F (400°C)
- CVD Coater head to metal roll in Flexible Solar Panels at 1,100°F (600°C)
- Glass and Metal forming at 1,475°F (800°C)
- Jet Engine dynamic testing including thermal expansion
- Power Turbine runout for R&D
- Material strength testing, COD, J1C Fracture, Tensile Testing
- Satellite systems cryogenic vacuum testing at -456°F (-272°C)
Gap Measurement Systems for Nuclear Fuel Rod Bundle Gaps
- Gap measurement system replacing strain gauge wands in robotic fuel rod assemblies for Pressurized Water Reactors (PWR) and Boiling Water Reactors (BWR)
Gap Measurement in Gas and Steam Turbines
- Turbine blade to outer casing gap measurement
- Rotor to Stator gap measurement
- Metal seal to rotor gap measurement during production
- Simultaneous measurements of 5 points rotor to stator gaps in a steam turbine to confirm the turbine eccentricity after re-build
- Maintaining uniform gaps between heat exchanger tubes on nuclear steam turbine heat exchanger
Gap & Parallelism Measurement in Photovoltaic Applications
- Gap/parallelism of CVD coater head to metal roller
- Control Slot Die Coater Gap for liquid coating
- Gap/parallelism of Slot Die coater head to media
- Gap/parallelism between rollers for lamination and other PV cell and module roller applications
- 800°C proximity sensor for absence/ presence of panels in a vacuum furnace
Gap Measurements in Wind Turbines Applications
- Condition Monitoring System with real time measurement of rotor stator gap during operation to prevent catastrophic failures
- Gap measurement between cogwheel teeth in pitch control and other actuators
- Emergency Disc brake rotor to brake pad gap set up
- Nacelle to tower parallelism
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