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Aerospace Aerospace is a major market for Capacitec’s non-contact displacement, gap and hole mapping sensors and systems. Our customers build/rebuild commercial and military aircraft and engines. For 25+ years we have worked closely with manufacturing and quality engineers as well as R&D to enhance their product designs and production and quality control methods. Often we have replaced mechanical measurement tools such as feeler gauges and go/no gauges with electronic alternatives. For example: ■ The GAPMAN® “electronic feeler gage” provides a high accuracy non-contact equivalent with a...

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LiniGage Aircraft Engine Rotor Eccentricity Realignment The Capacitec LiniGage is an Aircraft Engine Rotor Eccentricity Realignment System that is used to set the concentricity of engine rotor assemblies such as in the HPC and HPT sections. An 8mm non-contact displacement sensor is temporarily attached to the tip of one of the blades with a lead typically exiting the engine enclosure through a borescope hole. The rotor is rotated 360° allowing the sensor to measure the gap between the blade tip and the housing inside circumference. The LiniGage custom software takes displacement values,...

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GAPMAN ® Used in Shimming Operation GAPMAN® is the world’s first high precision, non-contact, portable electronic gap measurement gage. It features a dual capacitive sensor for position-compensated measurement and easy insertion into very narrow gaps down to 0.004” (105 microns) in a wide range of aerospace applications. The most popular aerospace application for the GAPMAN® is the assembly of Commercial and Military aircraft and in particular its use in the shimming process. It has been documented that the use of the GAPMAN® has reduced the time required for shimming by 5X over the...

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CMS™ (Capacitance Measurement System) Hole Diameter Mapping System Airframe and other demanding structures require thousands of fastener hole inspections to ensure compliance to exacting design specifications. The CMS3™ and Capacitive Hole Probe (CHP) combine to form a system that reduces operator influence. The non-contact displacement sensor probe contains 48 sensors that allow the system to inspect 24 inside diameter locations of a fastener hole in one insertion in less than 3 seconds. Additional Features: High-speed, high-precision measurement of straight, tapered, or countersink...

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Engine Fan Blade Length Measurement Non-Contact and Contact Methods FIXED POSITION NON-CONTACT METHOD To enhance efficiency and safety, aircraft manufacturers need to know the fan blade lengths during initial assembly and after engine rebuild. Current mechanical gap measurement methods, such as step gauges and shims, cannot meet the latest quality requirements such as Six Sigma since they fail to pass Gauge R&R. In response, Capacitec has developed a special “electronic blade length gage” that operates as follows: ■ An HPB-150 non-contact displacement sensor is installed in a custom fixture...

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US HEADQUARTERS Capacitec, Inc. 87 Fitchburg Road P.O. Box 819 Ayer, Massachusetts 01432 USA TEL: 978-772-6033 FAX: 978-772-6036 email: sales@capacitec.com www.capacitec.com EUROPEAN HEADQUARTERS Capacitec Europe 16, rue Séjourné 94044 CRETEIL cedex FRANCE TEL: 33 1 43 39 48 68 FAX: 33 1 49 80 07 49 email: eurosales@capacitec.com www.capacitec.com/french

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