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Additive Manufacturing Meets Medical Implants
2/25/2022
Additive Manufacturing 
Meets Medical Implants

Conventional, off-the-shelf implants have made it easier for medical professionals to treat the most common patient needs quickly and efficiently. However, modern imaging—combined with additive manufacturing technology—has made it possible to design patient-specific implants to better fit individual needs in more complex cases. Join us as we use VGSTUDIO MAX to examine these customized implants!

Additive Manufacturing
Porosity/Inclusion Analysis
Healthcare
Wall Thickness Analysis
One Rule to Rule Them All: The Power of Annotations
10/14/2021
One Rule to Rule Them All: 
The Power of Annotations

Sometimes, analyses leave you with thousands of results—a dream for the project, but a reader's nightmare! Check out how you can use rule-based annotations on VGSTUDIO MAX to leave your reports looking crisp and clean.

Tips & Tricks
Porosity/Inclusion Analysis
Nominal/Actual Comparison
CT Mysteries: A Case in Cheese
10/1/2021
CT Mysteries: A Case in Cheese

Holes have become an icon of Swiss cheese, but in the past years, their numbers have been mysteriously dwindling. Only one question remains—where have all the holes gone? Join researchers at Agroscope as they combine CT technology and agricultural science to unravel and understand the mystery behind disappearing holes in Swiss cheese.

Porosity/Inclusion Analysis
Foam/Powder Analysis
Food Industry
Battle Against the Void: Combining Voids and Inclusions in One Analysis
9/17/2021
Battle Against the Void: Combining Voids and Inclusions in One Analysis

As you may well know, too much porosity can damage the part, but inclusions can damage the tool. If only there was a way to keep an eye on both types of defects at the same time. Check out this workaround on combining voids and inclusions in one analysis!

Porosity/Inclusion Analysis
Tips & Tricks
The (R)evolution of Hairpin Inspection
7/9/2021
The (R)evolution of Hairpin Inspection

It is difficult to imagine that in 1907, a little over a hundred years ago, cars were just beginning to replace horses as the standard form of transport. Now, car manufacturers all over the world are striving to pave our way to a cleaner, greener future by developing reliable, efficient EV motors. But how can we keep up with such a rapid shift in technology while ensuring that each motor is properly inspected—right down to the very last hairpin? This story looks at the current approaches and provides a few step-by-step actions for hairpin inspection using industrial computed tomography (CT) and VGSTUDIO MAX.

Automation
Automotive
Porosity/Inclusion Analysis
Going with the Flow: Directional Variability
7/5/2021
Going with the Flow: 
Directional Variability

You know what they say—at some point, you gotta just go with the flow. That applies to analyses, too. With directional variability, we can see how analysis values change along a specified direction. Join us as we use VGSTUDIO MAX to explore directional variability in porosity/inclusion, foam/powder, and gray value analyses!

Tips & Tricks
Porosity/Inclusion Analysis
Foam/Powder Analysis
Gray Value Analysis
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