REVERSE ENGINEERING FOR QUALITY CONTROL

To keep pace with customer needs industrial producers have to create parts with complex shapes (Cheung et al., 2005) and with very precise tolerances. To make a profit, the manufacturing process should be shortened, this imposing introduction of new technologies. A sector of the manufacturing process is quality control; it requires the inspection of a wide variety of parts of different shapes and sizes. The paper presents two methods of inspecting the quality for complex shape parts, both belonging to reverse engineering techniques. First, the part will be measured on a CMM with a contact probe and then the virtual model resulted will be compared with the model obtained from the digitization process.