G.E. Chooses CAItech for Software Development

San Jose, CA, July 14, 2001 - General Electric's Aircraft Engine Group (Evendale, OH) has chosen CAItech to develop software for its 3D inspection machine.  The in-house GE machine inspects aircraft engine parts of commercial and military aircraft made by GE.  The machine uses a confocal optics sensor made by Optimet Metrology, Inc. (Danvers, MA) to quickly measure parts in 3D.

CAItech, a Silicon Valley manufacturer of 3D scanning and inspection machines, uses both laser sensors and confocal optics sensors in its equipment.  The Optimet sensor measures 800 range points per second, each point accurate to +/-10 microns.  However, for the highest accuracy, the sensor should be calibrated in place -- on the inspection machine. CAItech will develop calibration software for GE based on the algorithms of its laser-based inspection machines.

Computer Aided Inspection Technologies, Inc. is a privately held California corporation manufacturing next-generation automated inspection equipment. Established in 1997, CAItech is located in San Jose, CA in the heart of California's Silicon Valley electronics industry.
CAItech can be reached at (408) 226-0642, or on the web at www.caitech.com .