What the Coating Line Doesn’t Tell You. Read the article
What the Coating Line Doesn’t Tell You. Read the article
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When new turbines are sold out and fleets run hotter for longer, every coated part counts.
Data centers and electrification have pushed the gas turbine backlog years into the future, and complex turbine blades are among the hardest parts to supply. With new units scarce, operators are running turbines hotter and for longer between services, which puts more weight on coating quality and on confident service decisions.
All of this relies on protective coatings, a major driver of hot-section cost and service life, yet inspection after process validation is limited and sparse.
Complex blade castings are the tightest constraint in production, so manufacturers apply conservative acceptance criteria to the coatings that protect them, and every rejected part is costly.
PlasmaSens™ measures production coatings at customer sites today and is designed to scan coated parts directly, rather than relying on coupons and spot readings. One non-contact scan, with no sample preparation, reports multiple coating properties and defects at the same locations, and the part continues through its process.
PlasmaSens can measure more properties as needed, using models calibrated with your own reference measurements.
Measuring the parts themselves, rather than coupons, is designed to help teams check the spray process before each part, rely less on destructive sampling, and make acceptance and service decisions with more confidence.
In a sold-out market, that is a competitive advantage: fewer good parts lost in production, and confident service decisions that avoid unnecessary refurbishment and shorten outages.
Fewer strip-and-recoat cycles free existing lines for new parts and parts returning from service.
Checking the spray process before each part helps reduce rework.
Helping service teams find debonding and coating variation supports durability and helps avoid costly failures.
Data from the part itself can shorten the learning cycle for new coatings and new lines.
The fastest way to evaluate PlasmaSens™ is with your own material. Book a demo scan, or send us samples and we will return a report.
