The ShotMeter and the Aerospace Industry

Author:  Jim Whalen, Progressive Surface
Source:  The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 29, Issue 2, Spring 2015
Doc ID:  2015015
Year of Publication:  2015
Abstract:  
The Shotmeter is a success story for Progressive Surface, particularly due to its acceptance in the aerospace industry where it improves accuracy while reducing the development time of a shot peening process. For example, a major aircraft engine manufacturer recently benefitted from reduced development time, thanks to the ShotMeter. The manufacturer purchased a Progressive Surface 6-axis robotic shot peening system and required process recipes for five different intensity ranges at three different impingement angles with three different nozzles. Utilizing traditional methods, developing the 45 distinct saturation curves would have taken several weeks to complete. But with the use of previously developed process models and the ShotMeter, preparing a new development methodology consisted of a few simple steps.