The Importance of CT in Industry 4.0 by Supplying Quality and GPS Standards for Several Production Methods Such as Additive Manufacturing

摘要

Today Industry 4.0 is spreading from developed countries into other developing economies even to small and medium sized enterprises. With a strong infrastructure and fast connection between components of the whole factory, Industry 4.0 will introduce innovations and a more robust, reliable and sustainable production. While Industry 4.0 is having several fundamental technology additive manufacturing has been playing an important role and takes part in today's Industry 4.0 technology, prominently for automotive vehicle producers. Additive manufacturing has many advantages and tasks such as in reverse engineering, by defect prediction or producing complex shaped parts. Its vitality becomes more important when its implementation is combined with the most recent measurement technology 'Computer Tomography'. CT can detect complex surfaces or inner structure with X-Ray usage which helps to additive manufacturing parts by inspection which can not be provided by a CMM in similar manner. That study presents a simple sample for the combination of these two technologies. Followingly, voids and GPS analyses after CT measurements of several parts will be introduced. Also, those CT inspections will give an example for a definite stage of Industry 4.0. In conclusion, a brief investigation of those innovative most recent technologies, which are developing in a continuous manner, will be made in the context of Industry 4.0 according to inspection results.