Reply to: Woman in manufacturing / Austria

[scooterscot]

If you go to Rolls Royce, Airbus, EADS Astrium, ForgeMasters etc in the UK you will likely see this stuff. Chances are the actual machine was made in the US or Germany though.

Have worked for three of those companies, just P&W missing!

[scooterscot]

This sort of thing...

Exactly this, expect about four time the height, and the transducer arms more like chunky lampposts.

[scooterscot]

Right, so an ultrasound machine then.

The water is there to improve the transmission of sound waves into the material, similarly to the jelly they use on pregnant women or blokes with fatty livers. They use jets because beyond a certain size sticking things in a tank gets complicated. The actual sound is generated and received by special transducers, not the jets per se.

Bang on. Just massive, never seen one on this scale. The movements of the arms for the transducers you would not want to be anywhere near when in operation, with the speed they were moving around at.

[sasguru]

If you go to Rolls Royce, Airbus, EADS Astrium, ForgeMasters etc in the UK you will likely see this stuff. Chances are the actual machine was made in the US or Germany though.

Lord Haw-haw is not good enough to work in cutting edge companies in the UK, so he assumes they must not exist. And yet the plane he entrusted his life to to go abroad probably had a British engine on it.
Those Teutons can't be very smart if they're employing an imbecile like him.

[doodab]

This sort of thing...

[doodab]

There is no fooling you is there ?

I am always interested in promoting human - machine understanding.

[fullyautomatix]

Right, so not testing tensile strength then.

The water is there to improve the transmission of sound waves into the material, similarly to the jelly they use on pregnant women or blokes with fatty livers. They use jets because beyond a certain size sticking things in a tank gets complicated. The actual sound is generated and received by special transducers, not the jets per se.

There is no fooling you is there ?

[doodab]

The cool thing about all this when wondering about the shop floor in a foreign country is you kind of feel like an ambassador. But at the same time part of you feels sad when you see those advances in engineering that you would see back home.

If you go to Rolls Royce, Airbus, EADS Astrium, ForgeMasters etc in the UK you will likely see this stuff. Chances are the actual machine was made in the US or Germany though.

[doodab]

Cracks / weaknesses in a composite. The water jet was set to a sonic frequency hitting the material, another water jet @ 180 degrees receives the vibrations that pass through the material, with the difference in frequency building a picture. Very smart.

Right, so an ultrasound machine then.

The water is there to improve the transmission of sound waves into the material, similarly to the jelly they use on pregnant women or blokes with fatty livers. They use jets because beyond a certain size sticking things in a tank gets complicated. The actual sound is generated and received by special transducers, not the jets per se.

[scooterscot]

The cool thing about all this when wondering about the shop floor in a foreign country is you kind of feel like an ambassador. But at the same time part of you feels sad when you see those advances in engineering that you would see back home.

Enough waffling, back to my Weibulls.

[doodab]

Probably a giant version of the machine used to interocular pressure
Intraocular pressure - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A giant version with some water jets?

[scooterscot]

But tensile strength testing with water jets? How does that work?

Or was it checking for cracks or weld integrity?

Cracks / weaknesses in a composite. The water jet was set to a sonic frequency hitting the material, another water jet @ 180 degrees receives the vibrations that pass through the material, with the difference in frequency building a picture. Very smart.

[Spacecadet]

But tensile strength testing with water jets? How does that work?

Or was it checking for cracks or weld integrity? Or just a common or garden CMM?

Probably a giant version of the machine used to interocular pressure
Intraocular pressure - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[doodab]

Very! This machine was 8m tall at least, used for measuring components of awkward shape.

But tensile strength testing with water jets? How does that work?

Or was it checking for cracks or weld integrity? Or just a common or garden CMM?

[scooterscot]

Is this a romantic relationship or a "Kundenbeziehung"?

I guess you now think in German and translate your thoughts in English.

Their words not mine, NDA signed, PO's in the post, a new relationship.