Tube Inspection Station

The Tube Inspection Station (TIS) lets you choose the tools you need to inspect everything from hydraulic tubing to exhaust pipe. When used with the optional magnetic base, the system is the only portable tube inspection system on the market that can be taken to the workpiece to measure pipes, lines, hoses and tubes in place, thereby saving time and effort.

Typical equipment needed for accurate, affordable tube inspection includes a ROMER Absolute portable CMM, inspection table, computer, DOCS® software and various accessories. Non-contact infrared tube probes are available for measuring from thin wire to 130mm diameter tubes and above. These intelligent probes are changeable on-the-fly without tools or the need to recalibrate.

This package will determine tube lengths, bend angles, tube spring-back and corrected bend data. The data, including both absolute and incremental length rotation and angle data, can be output in a variety of formats, or even send corrected bend data directly to a tube bending machine using the Tube Shop Manager module of DOCS software.

Reverse engineering tube geometry for replacement parts is fast and straightforward: you can even do it in-place on the assembly without removing the tube.

• Measuring volume: 2500mm and 6000mm
• Reliability and robustness (carbon fiber and aircraft quality aluminum)
• Possibility to measure a diameter from 2mm up to 180mm
• User-friendly software interface
• Bent tubes inspection (wires, pipes...)
• Measurement in XYZ or LRA (bending format)
• Tube reference calculations by best fit, 3-2-1, Plane Line Point or hardpoint methods
• Automatic bending program correction.