Turbine & Engine Component Inspection
Detect crack initiation, thermal damage, and manufacturing defects on turbine blades, combustion chambers, and engine casings with edge-native AI.
What It Is
Jet engine components operate under the most extreme conditions in manufacturing, temperatures exceeding 1,500°C, rotational forces of 10,000+ RPM, and pressures that would crush most materials. Turbine blades, nozzle guide vanes, combustion liners, and engine casings must be defect-free to prevent catastrophic in-flight failure.
Why It's Hard
- •Complex blade geometries with airfoil curves, cooling holes, and thermal barrier coatings that create inspection shadows
- •Microscopic crack initiation from thermal cycling that begins at the crystal grain level
- •Super-alloy reflectivity: single-crystal nickel superalloys create challenging visual inspection conditions
- •Zero tolerance for escapes, a single undetected crack in a turbine blade can cause an uncontained engine failure
How Overview Solves It
Micro-crack detection: The OV80i's high-resolution imaging resolves surface cracks and coating spallation at the micron scale.
Thermal barrier coating inspection: AI segmentation detects coating delamination, spallation, and thickness variation across blade surfaces.
Cooling hole verification: Confirm correct cooling hole count, position, and blockage status on turbine blades.
100% on-premise: Engine component images, often among the most sensitive IP in aerospace, never leave your facility.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can Overview inspect turbine blades in-situ?
Overview's compact cameras can be positioned for borescope-style inspections of installed blades, though the highest resolution is achieved with bench-top inspection of individual components.
Does it replace FPI (fluorescent penetrant inspection)?
Overview complements FPI by providing rapid visual pre-screening. It catches surface defects at production speed, reducing the volume of parts requiring FPI processing.
Inspect Engine Components
See how Overview detects defects on turbine blades and engine parts
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Products for Aerospace & Defense
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OV80i Vision System
Best for: micro-defect detection on machined parts, composites & weld seams
OV20i Smart Camera
Best for: compact line-side deployment in secure & classified environments
OV10i Smart Camera
Best for: fast classification, presence/absence & first article inspection