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Grabbing Attention

A portable tool that significantly reduces dent mapping and reporting times is being
increasingly used by airlines and MRO companies
By Arun Sivasankaran

A PortABLe dent-mAPPing tooL tHAt inconsistent and labor intensive. Our design
has been designed to take human error out philosophy was to solve all three. The
of the equation as well as drastically reduce results delivered by dentCHECK are not
mapping and reporting time is causing plenty only consistent, as approved by OEMs and
of excitement within the aviation MRO certified by national labs, but also completely
industry. dentCHECK, a product of Colorado objective and instantaneous.”
(USA) and Konstanz (Germany)-based 8tree, “The design philosophy for each tool in
is completely tether-less with full wireless our portfolio of surface inspection products
capability and can be set up within a minute. is that it should be intuitive and seamlessly
The tool provides Structural Repair Manual drop into existing industry workflows,” says
(SRM)-compliant dent-measurements in Chhabra. “It should give you an answer, not
seconds. With Augmented Reality (AR) built just data. The traditional metrology industry
into the system, the measurements are makes powerful scientific instruments that
projected right-back onto the surface, in dump massive amounts of dimensional data;
real-time, allowing the operator to make an the onus is on the customer to make sense of
instant ‘go/no-go’ decision. it all. With dentCHECK, our goal was to deliver
dentCHECK is a portable dent- “Dent mapping in the industry is prone a complete dent map at the push of a button.
mapping tool, that is completely to a high degree of variability due to human After a technician uses dentCHECK to map a
tether-less with full wireless judgment,” says Arun Chhabra, co-founder dent, the results can be wireless transmitted
capability and can be set up within
a minute and CEO of 8tree. “’It is very subjective, to a structure engineer’s workstation,
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