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Laser Digitising System (LDS-300) ….more speed, higher precision, lower cycle times and machine tool independence

TTL announce the latest enhancement to their industry-leading Adaptive Machining systems used commonly in gas turbine component manufacturing and repair applications.

The new product – named the LDS-300 – is a high speed laser-based digitising device combined with specially written software that together, dramatically increase the speed with which data can be captured from the component.

The new package is a further enhancement of TTL’s previous spot beam laser digitiser (the LDS-100) and is based instead on a stripe laser with significantly improved data handling and filtering software. This latest development offers many advantages over other, similar devices. Several lasers can be used in conjunction to either increase the effective stripe width or to capture data from two positions /
orientations simultaneously further reducing digitising
times and significantly increasing flexibility.

The device itself has a high degree of immunity to the surface reflectivity issues normally associated with lasers and when coupled with TTL’s supporting LDS software can recreate complex 3-dimensional surfaces to accuracies of around 0.030mm (0.0012”) at very high speed.

The LDS-300 is available as an option on all new TTL Adaptive Machining installations and also as a retrofit upgrade to existing customer installations.

In applications where productivity is paramount, the LDS-300 brings a host of benefits including significant cycle time reduction, automatic stitching together of input data, filtering and smoothing. TTL have developed the new solution specifically with cycle time reduction in mind for their complex Adaptive Machining applications

The LDS–300 makes available for the first time, all the benefits of laser-based data capture with few of the pitfalls. A further distinct advantage offered by the LDS-100 is complete machine independence. The system has been designed to operate independently of the machine’s CNC control therefore can be retrofitted to virtually any type of machine. This means that customers find it much easier and more cost-effective than ever before, to retrofit adaptive machining technology without having to invest in new plant. The laser head itself is a fully sealed unit making it suitable for use in machine tool applications.

The LDS-300 has been designed as an effective high-speed data acquisition module for TTL’s adaptive machining solutions and initial target applications are centred around elliptical leading edge profiling, blade tip and chord restoration and adaptive machining applications in larger components in the power generation and energy industries

For more information contact us at enquiries@ttl-3d.co.uk