(NVision: Coppell, TX) -- Cameron Compression Systems used NVision HandHeld laser scanners to produce a solid model of an existing large engine in one-tenth of the time that would have been required using conventional methods.

“It would have taken several years to re-engineer the large diesel engine block pan and heads using a coordinate measuring machine (CMM),” says Greg Obets, manager of engineering systems for Cameron. “Instead we scanned these components, converted the resulting point cloud into a solid model, and made the tweaks necessary to prepare them for production in only two months.”

Cameron Compression Systems provides reciprocating and centrifugal compression products, systems, and services to oil, gas, and process industries. The company also previously built a line of 12 to 16 cylinder two-stroke diesel engines to power its compressors. The company discontinued these engines about 10 years ago but customers have been asking Cameron to bring them back and recently the company agreed.

 …