Through our expertise in the field of industrial CT services at the Scientific Application Center, we can provide crucial support to help you increase the quality of your products and the efficiency of your processes, minimize risks, check compliance, and bring your products more quickly to market.

At our locations in Fürth, Würzburg and Deggendorf, we offer our customers first-rate CT services in the area of nondestructive testing.

We possess a range of industrial X-ray systems unrivaled worldwide, allowing us to carry out a great variety of testing jobs. Here, we can perform nondestructive testing on everything from objects as fine as a hair to entire vehicles or freight containers. Regardless of the application or material, our scientists offer the right solutions in domains as diverse as automobiles, power generation, foodstuffs, clothing and aerospace.

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Quick response times to customer inquiries and prompt analysis and processing of results, including customer-specific reports.
Locations in Fürth, Würzburg, Deggendorf and Saarbrücken
Advice in the area of nondestructive testing for production environments
Wide range of flexible X-ray systems and inspection methods
Experienced service personnel familiar with industrial production processes
Application of the innovative and continuously enhanced technologies of the Fraunhofer Development Center for X-ray Technology
Development of innovative solutions to address customer-specific issues

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X-ray systems

Turntable with crashed vehicle — With a diameter of 3 meters, the turntable of the XXL-CT system offers enough space for huge objects such as vehicles.

© Fraunhofer IIS/Paul Pulkert
Through the interplay of X-ray hardware and large industrial robots, RoboCT makes it possible to inspect difficult-to-access areas. This includes not just adhesive and welded connections but also corrosion, the proper positioning of seals, and the length of wiring harnesses in the roof liner.

XXL-CT: System with 9 MeV linear accelerator for very large and difficult-to-irradiate objects of up to 3.2 meters in diameter, 6 meters in length and 10 metric tons in weight (resolution from 400 µm upward).
High-energy CT: System with 9 MeV linear accelerator for compact, difficult-to-irradiate objects of up to 1.0 meters in diameter, 4 meters in length and 500 kilograms in weight (resolution approx. 180 µm).
Laminography system: System made of granite with large travel range of up to 3 m. Measurement of sections of large components at high resolution possible (resolution up to approx. 1 µm).
DRAGONFLY system: Fully automated 2D and 3D measurements can be realized using industrial robots when testing large production runs (resolution up to approx. 200 µm).
RoboCT system: System with two cooperating industrial robots for flexible measurements on large objects (resolution up to approx. 50 µm).
X-ray microscope: Converted scanning electron microscope for measurements on small specimens weighing up to 0.5 kg with maximum resolution (up to approx. 55 nm).
Inline CT system: System with 450 kV X-ray detector for serial measurements of large components (including metallic ones). Scanning time < 30 s possible.
MacroCT system: System with 600 kV X-ray source for objects weighing up to 100 kg (resolution up to approx. 150 µm). Rapid measurements can be carried out to demonstrate inline CT processes.
MicroCT system: System with 225 kV micro-focus X-ray source and granite build for objects weighing up to 90 kg (resolution up to approx. 5 µm).
MicroCT system: System with 225 kV X-ray source and a 2k detector for dimensional metrology (MPEE3: (4.5+L/75) μm)
PhenoCT: System for 2D and 3D X-ray plant phenotyping with up to 225 kV. Maximum object volume of 20 cm diameter at height of 1.8 m with a resolution of up to 80 µm.
CTportable160.90: System for the analysis of compact specimens (maximum diameter of 7 cm and height of 20 cm) with up to 90 kV. The resolution is between 3 and 40 µm depending on object diameter.
CTportable25.50: System for the analysis of compact specimens (maximum diameter of 4 cm and height of 5 cm) with up to 50 kV. The resolution is between 18 and 40 µm depending on object diameter.
Tomolibri system: Multi-sensor measuring system for capturing internal and external structures.

MR systems

Anlage der Abteilung MRB in Würzburg — © Fraunhofer IIS
The Magnetic Resonance and X-Ray department in Würzburg has numerous systems and components.

17.6 T Bruker Avance 750 (imaging up to 10 µm resolution, spectroscopy) – vertical cylindrical specimen volume of up to 3.6 cm diameter, max. measuring height 2.0 cm
11.6 T Bruker Avance 500 (imaging up to 10 µm resolution, spectroscopy) – vertical cylindrical specimen volume of up to 2.0 cm, max. measuring height 1.0 cm
7.0 T Bruker Biospec (imaging up to 10 µm resolution, spectroscopy) – horizontal cylindrical specimen volume of up to 7.2 cm and 3.6 cm diameter, max. measuring range 6.0 cm and 3.0 cm
3.0 T Siemens Skyra full-body tomograph (imaging up to 100 µm resolution) – horizontal cylindrical specimen volume of up to 70 cm diameter, max. measuring range 70 cm
0.5 T Pure Devices / Fraunhofer Polymer Profiler (spectroscopy, relaxometry, relaxography, fingerprinting) vertical cylindrical volume of up to 1 cm diameter, max. measuring height 1.0 cm, miniature test tube for specimens)

Other systems

© Fraunhofer IIS
Werth VideoCheck 600 coordinate system with optical and tactile measurement sensors for the precise capturing of component surfaces.

Magnetic particle spectroscopy system: Pure Devices / Fraunhofer MPS (spectroscopy) vertical cylindrical volume of up to 1 cm diameter, max. measuring height 1.0 cm, miniature test tube for specimens)
Coordinate measurement system: System with tactile and optical measurement sensors for inspecting the dimensional accuracy of components (MPE_E3: (2.5+L/300) μm).
Perthometer: System for the tactile measurement of all surface parameters. Enables roughness and waviness analyses as well as the measurement and analysis of 2D contours.

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