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It is unlikely that anyone in today’s highly evolved
tube and pipe industry has ever confronted
a production run that reaches the stage of
bundling for shipment without having been
inspected, measured, tested, and marked.
Even to imagine such a thing is difficult.
It is much easier to imagine the likeliest buyer
(perhaps the only buyer) of that perfectly
formed material: the scrap dealer, who
would negotiate a rock-bottom price for it,
or even impose a fee for taking it off the
tubemaker’s hands. Products intended for the
high purposes of the aerospace, nautical, oilfield,
and construction industries have a long service life built into them. Uncertified, those same products are
good for nothing but recycling – the quicker, the better.
The output of a modern tubemaking plant has to satisfy its criteria absolutely, and be proved to do so. It
must, like Caesar’s wife, be above suspicion, hence the critical function served by inspection, measuring,
testing, and marking. Without making any changes in the tube or pipe, the specialties under review in
this section of Tube & Pipe Technology even so mean everything to its saleability – and to the producer’s
bottom line.
material bending springback/stretching and
inspect manufactured components against
specified requirements.
By changing the ‘V-probe’ measuring head
for a contact ball probe, the machine can
be converted to a coordinate measuring
machine (CMM) for the accurate
measurement of components incorporating
flanges and brackets. This method can also
be used to measure numerous non-tubular
shapes and fixings.
For those requiring less functionality
from their non-contact tube measuring
equipment, AddisonMckee have also
introduced AddiCheck™. Benefiting
from the development expertise behind
AdData™ ‘G’ Plus, AddiCheck models offer
levels of capability and functionality more
suited to mid-market tube manipulation
organisations.
AddisonMckee – USA
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AddisonMckee Ltd – UK
Fax: +44 1772 323227
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AddisonMckee has further enhanced
its highly proven AdData™-Plus tube
measuring system with innovative software
designed to make inspection even easier.
Branded the AdData™ ‘G’ Plus, this latest
model was created to further simplify
the transition between non-contact and
co-ordinate measuring requirements. It
harnesses the latest ‘G-tube’ measuring
technology, developed in association with
French software specialists, Romar.
The AdData™ ‘G’ Plus system incorporates
a range of powerful features designed to
make the process of component inspection,
measurement and data collection
exceptionally user friendly.
AdData™-Plus technology is
recognised as a ‘total tube data’
solution for virtually every industry
involved in the manufacture of
tubular components.
Designed to interface with all
AddisonMckee CNC Databend
machines, the system is based
around a ‘V-probe’ non-contact
light beam that requires no
clamping devices and provides
distortion-free measuring.
Information generated can be used
to program any number of CNC
bending machines to replicate a
given component, compensate for
Inspection, Measuring, Testing
& M arking
Ultimate tube measuring and inspection machine
fi Tube measuring and inspection with the AdData™ ‘G’ Plus