The Challenge

Drive batteries after a crash test. Engine components in lifecycle testing. Museum treasures that must not even be touched. Huge shipping containers that cannot be easily opened. Wherever conventional computed tomography reaches its limits, we have a solution with GiantEye – coming soon!

GiantEye is a high-energy CT system that will be put into operation at the Fraunhofer location in Fürth starting in early 2027. This unique facility worldwide enables complete, three-dimensional capture of objects up to the size of 20-foot freight containers. The capture takes place in their natural "road position."

In doing so, CT technology addresses not only the classical fields of application for non-destructive material testing and metrology, but also enables completely unaltered access to hidden structures and geometries – for example, for creating digital twins of crashed or lifecycle-tested vehicles and large assemblies.

Specifically, this means:

• Larger objects: From complete vehicles to large assemblies such as battery storage systems, to artifacts from museums
• More meaningful results: No distortion through repositioning – liquids remain where they are, components in their real positions
• New fields of application: With electromobility, additive manufacturing technologies, and increasingly complex multi-material assemblies, testing tasks are emerging for which there is currently no conventional testing technology
• Engine for innovation: Through the fast and non-destructive method, condition information of a product can be easily fed back into development processes and thus help keep pace with increasingly shorter innovation cycles