20th International Forgemasters Meeting - IFM 2017

BÖHLER EDELSTAHL is as part of the VOESTALPINE Special Steel Division, next to the production of Tooling Steel, High Speed Steel and Special Steel grades, a qualified and approved supplier for several renowned customers in the worldwide Energy- and Aviation-Industry. To fulfill the high requirements of our customers to the product quality, are, next to several destructive testing methods or non-destructive surface inspection methods, also different ultrasonic testing methods with automatic inspection equipment’s required. These equipment’s and the additional required qualified, certified and authorized inspection personnel guarantee a secured and reproducible inspection of the volume respectively the inner quality of the produced products. In the forging line are followed automatic ultrasonic inspection equipment´s in use. - Two conventional disc inspection equipment´s in Contact Technique method for part diameters up to 2.2 meter - One conventional Immersion Technique equipment with 5 control-axes for parts with simple contours or bars in flat or round shape and up to a length of 6.5 meters. - One Phased Array Technique equipment based on a water chamber system in quasi immersion technique for round bars up to a length of twelve meters. All equipment´s have a numerical control system for the automatic inspection process including a recording program of the detailed position- and inspection data´s to present the A-Scan and C-Scan analysis as minimum. The mentioned inspection equipment´s and there different inspection techniques will be described in this elaboration on the basis of practical inspection tasks of pre-machined open-die parts as well of steel bars including a presentation of the final application of the finish part.