YXLON Wheel 6000 - X-ray Wheel Inspection System

Описание: From 2002!

A video I found buried with stuff from my old office. This must have been a demo or sample video provided by the company Yxlon for the Wheel 6000 X-ray wheel inspection system.

Essentially its a big X-ray device that lets you non-destructively test all wheels when they come off the casting line. At our plant, we didn't end up using this exact model, but it functioned basically the same. The idea was that you would inspect every wheel when it left the casting cell (one of many casting machines grouped together) so that you could have a tight feedback-loop on whether or not you had an issue at casting time.

I suspect that the x-ray head is actually off in some of these videos, as those x-ray booths were pretty serious business. The operators were perfectly fine, but you didn't want to be inside when the thing was running.

Later in the video you can see the actual digital X-ray image, pretty neat stuff. This would let you determine if the wheel had a crack, deformity, porosity, etc.

Fun fact, in 2003 this machine cost somewhere in the neighborhood of around $500,000!

Yxlon is still in business, check out their website here:
https://www.yxlon.com/

This video is not mine, I've just uploaded it for nostalgia reasons. All rights reserved by their respective owners.