Ship propellers are an absolutely critical maintenance item for ship operators, shipyards, and repair facilities. Damage occurs from many different sources, including groundings, strikes, ingestion of debris, cavitation erosion from high thrust conditions, galvanic corrosion from failed protection systems, and other unpleasant phenomena. TrueProp is here to revolutionize the way shipyards inspect propellers. ​
​Propellers can be inspected at the yard or in the dry dock. 3D scanning allows propeller inspection without removal. The Virtual Plug-in for TrueProp enables users to process 3D scans files from commercial laser scanning equipment, allowing you to inspect propellers almost anywhere!
​This then enables the yard to perform the initial inspection, resulting in reduced dry dock time and costs. The Virtual Plugin extracts all the required data for an ISO-484 Class Quality analysis quickly and efficiently. In mere minutes, the surface data is extracted from the desired radial positions and saved to a point cloud file.
Plus, non-contact methods are helpful with overlapping blades. The Virtual Plugin extracts all the required data for an ISO-484 Class Quality analysis quickly and efficiently. In mere minutes, the surface data is extracted from the desired radial positions and saved to a point cloud file.
