Designed for:

• Round, square, and flat bars
• Carbon steel and stainless steel grades
• Rough surfaces and peeled surfaces
• Round diameter range: 12mm (0.5 in.) to 230 mm (9 in.)
• Square size range: 20 mm (0.75 in.) to 230 mm (9 in.)
• Flat size range: 4 mm x 30 mm to 100 mm x 250 mm (0.25 in. x 1.50 in. to 4 in. x 10 in.)
• References:
  
  • Flat-bottom hole (FBH)
  • Side-drilled hole (SDH)
  • Surface notch

System Key Features

The main characteristics of the Olympus bar inspection system are:

High Productivity

• High-speed inspections (up to 2 m/s depending on diameter size)
• Phased Array ultrasound technique has the highest productivity and reliability of all inspection systems on the market.
• Versatile system quickly reconfigurable to different inspection configurations such as:
  
  • Fully automatic size change
  • Fast mechanical changeover time
  • Quick access to predefined inspection setups
  • Software Wizard tool used to create new inspection setups
• Multiple parallel firing to inspect simultaneously at different positions on the bars

Quality

• Full-body inspections of the bars by combining:
  • Ultrasonic longitudinal wave (LW) and shear wave (SW) for volumetric inspections
  • Eddy current array (ECA) technology for surface inspections
• Use of the unique Olympus mechanic for a constant optimal positioning of probes; independent and not affected adversely by straightness variations of the bars:
  
  • Floating head concept for UT/PA probes
  • Wear shoes concept for ECA probes
• The centering of the UT/PA probes in each cassette is acoustically adjusted to optimize the detection for each probe.
• Automatic calibration per channel providing the highest documented repeatability in the industry with detailed data reporting
  UT/PA probes remain static for a high quality signal.
• Bending can be accepted at the ends of the bars without any damage to the mechanics.
• Mechanical system design allows very short untested bar ends (± 20 mm).
• High sensitivity on small reference defects with SNR greater than 12 dB

User Friendly

• Easy interpretation of the inspection results using real time strip-chart displays
• Easy and fast mechanical reconfiguration between two bar sizes
• Detailed alarms and data reporting
• Supervisor software used to:
  
  • Merge and archive inspection data in one common database
  • Centralize inspection results and real-time displays on a single work station
• DCOM exchange protocol for easy interface with customer level 2 production-line systems
• Easy maintenance
• Multilingual acquisition software