From the hospital, in the car plant – why did a great car builder adopt a medical technology
Computer Tomograph (CT Scan) (PHOTO IMAGESUPPLY, Dreamstime.com)
A great car manufacturer has adopted in recent years technologies that were found especially in hospitals, and known medicine devices have now been used to make the quality control of the cast parts, writes the Ars Technica.
More and more automatic learning technologies are applied in car factories, and General Motors has put computed tomographs in its plants.
GM started using X -rays to carry out qualitative two -dimensional controls of castings, in the development phase. The advantage is that the flaws are found faster and remedied faster. The difference is large, because in the past the “destructive test” applies (the pieces were cut into pieces, to check if they had internal problems).
The use of computer scanners for 3D imaging of parts during development has improved quality and has reduced the development time by one third, say GM.
Computed tomography is a medical imaging technique that uses X -rays and a computer, to create detailed images of the human body (organs, bones, blood vessels).
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