Eight platforms, two industries

The blade chain runs from the moulding station to the fleet report. A MIS-100 gantry cell scans shear webs, spar caps and bond lines at 500 mm/s inside the production line, so an 80 m blade is checked against IEC 61400-5 before it leaves the station. An ISS-200 crawler carries the same ultrasonic methods to in-service blades at 300 mm/s across curved surfaces, sealed to IP67 and NEMA 4X for offshore campaigns.

Two scanner families cover what a gantry cannot reach. The RAS-10 and RAS-30 hold a 25–40 probe phased array against a standing or inclined blade and sweep the main and auxiliary beams in one pass, from 0.5 m to 6.0 m above floor level. The RAS-50 gantry and RAS-70 portable unit take the pultruded carbon cap and the leading and trailing edge bond lines, which sit outside the beam scan.

Upstream of all of them, the RAS-90 inspects the pultruded plank while it is still in the line: a 128-element array across 40–200 mm of width, at up to 15 m/min, grading defects from about Ø2 mm before the plank is coiled.

The SAS-300 suite ingests raw A-scan data from any of these platforms, classifies indications at 99.2 % agreement with ASNT Level III review and issues a C-scan report in under 5 minutes. The PIP-400 platform keeps the probe set vendor-neutral, hosting Eddyfi, Zetec, Olympus/Evident and Dolphitech probes on one interface with tool-free swaps under 30 seconds. Every platform writes to the same blade-serial-keyed record, so a scan taken in the factory and a scan taken on the tower land in one comparable dataset.

The SAM-500 leaves composites for silicon. It images internal interfaces at 10–300 MHz, so delamination, die-attach voids and solder-layer gaps in MLCCs, IGBT/SiC modules and advanced packages are measured against MIL-STD-883 Method 2030 and automotive void limits, then written to MES against the part serial. It shares the reporting model with the blade platforms, not the hardware.