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News Release from: Shaw Inspection Systems | Subject: Venlo
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Team on 30 July 2002
X-ray imaging on show at Farnborough
X-Tek Industrial showed its new Venlo self-contained cabinet X-ray imaging system for the first time in the UK at the Farnborough Air Show.
X-Tek Industrial showed its new Venlo self-contained cabinet X-ray imaging system for the first time in the UK at the Farnborough Air Show The Venlo uses the latest high-quality real-time digital radiography to provide substantial cost saving benefits over conventional film-based X-ray systems
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 11 Apr 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Offering an attractive combination of high productivity and low cost of ownership, Venlo has been specifically developed to replace film in applications requiring the highest levels of radiographic quality including aerospace engine components, turbine blades safety critical castings, waxes/ceramic cores, ECM drilling and final inspection phases.
It uses a choice of micro and mini-focal X-ray sources and a high resolution, large-area, amorphous silicon X-ray detector.
Available either as a vacuum demountable microfocus system for detection of the finest defects or a constant potential, sealed tube system for maximum productivity, Venlo can be supplied with a choice of three penetration levels as standard: 160, 225 and 320kV.
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The 320kV X-ray gun featured in the top of the range model, is the highest powered system of its type believed to be available anywhere in the world, allowing engineers accurately to view inside denser materials and thicker components than ever before.
Ideal for a wide range of aerospace NDT applications, the Venlo has a large component load tray of 40 x 30 cm.
Its microfocus X-ray sources, are optimised to give high power and long filament/target life with the minimum of maintenance at a focal spot of 25/30 micron.
They also have an x-y motorised component tray enabling the 40 x 30cm area to be covered and computer control at high magnification.
Mini-focus systems can image components filling almost the entire load tray area in a single exposure and produce results in a fraction of the time of film systems.
The Venlo's state-of-the-art large area, amorphous silicon detector features over seven million elements and can achieve a contrast of better than 1% and a dynamic range exceeding 4000:1.
It has an area of 40 x 30cm and even at 50-micron resolution, 5X magnification coverage is 8 x 6cm of the component.
All versions of the Venlo Series are rugged and compact and have been designed for ease of use and high productivity while meeting the most stringent safety standards.
The X-ray source, detector and component load tray are enclosed in a durable cabinet designed for quick installation.
A special version of X-Tek's Imps III image processing software supplied with the Venlo has three levels of security under password control and provides a macro language 'teach/repeat' for the entire inspection cycle.
Images are viewed as a radiograph on a 1600 x 1200pixel screen and archived onto CD-R or DVD-R discs.
A database/reporting system and a second monochrome display with a 2500 x 2000pixel resolution are also available as options.
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