Shop-Floor Industrial CT with 3D Software: CoreX Falcon Replaces the Lab
Lab CT systems have always delivered powerful 3D inspection. The problem was never the technology — it was where it lived and who could use it. CoreX with Falcon 3D software solves both.
The Real Cost of Laboratory CT
For most manufacturers, industrial CT inspection means one of two things: a machine in the metrology lab managed by a specialist, or an external CT scanning service. Both work. Neither works fast enough, frequently enough, or at the right point in the production process.
By the time a porosity problem in an aluminium die casting is detected by the lab, the machine has produced another shift’s worth of parts. By the time the CT scan from the external service comes back, the mold correction conversation is already delayed by days.
The bottleneck is not the technology. The bottleneck is the distance between the CT data and the production decision.
What Changes with CoreX Falcon 3D Software
CoreX is an industrial CT system designed to operate directly on the production floor — no bunker, no dedicated room, no specialist required to run a scan. The Falcon 3D software is the environment that gives quality engineers and programmers access to the full depth of the volumetric data, without leaving the shop floor.
The combination changes what industrial CT inspection means in practice:
The first-article check happens in minutes, not days. Load the part, run the scan, open Falcon. Construct the reference frame on the 3D volume, extract the critical sections, validate against the drawing tolerances. The mold correction decision happens before the trial run ends.
Porosity at production start is detected automatically. Falcon’s automated porosity analysis quantifies void volume, classifies defects by size, and returns a pass/fail verdict — without a specialist interpreting the data. The production team gets the answer, not a report to decode.
Warranty returns are analyzed on the same machine. When a component comes back from the field, the same Falcon environment that validated it at production can be used to investigate the failure — volumetric comparison, crack path analysis, surface deviation mapping.
From 3D Volume to 2D Section: Simple as a Profile Projector
The core insight behind the Falcon interface is that the complexity of 3D metrology does not need to be visible to the operator. Falcon works like a profile projector — it just happens to extract its sections from a volumetric CT model rather than a physical cross-cut.
The programmer builds the measurement program once, directly on the 3D volume: reference planes, section cuts, nominal values, tolerances. After that, the line operator loads the part, presses Start, and sees the same 2D section view, the same pass/fail traffic lights, the same trend chart — exactly as with a profile projector.
What changed is everything underneath: the measurement is non-destructive, the geometry is complete (internal and external simultaneously), and the result is objective and fully documented.
Falcon 3D Software: What It Delivers
Automated 3D Reconstruction — Every scan produces a full volumetric model in under a minute. No manual parameters. No specialist setup. Select the material preset, press Start.
Reference Frame and Sectioning — Geometric references are built directly on the 3D volume. Sections are extracted at any angle and position. Every section measurement is automatic and tied to the part program.
Color Map Comparison — The scanned surface mesh is overlaid against the STL nominal model. Deviations are color-mapped across the entire surface, making first-article validation and mold correction analysis immediate and visual.
Automated Porosity Detection — Internal voids are found, classified, and quantified automatically. Void volume fraction, maximum pore size, spatial distribution — all calculated without human interpretation.
Trend Monitoring — Every measurement is logged. Dimensional drift across a production run is visible in the trend chart before it causes scrap.
STL Export and Integration — 3D models export as STL for use in GOM, PolyWorks, Verisurf, and any other third-party software. Image stacks export for compatibility with existing CT analysis platforms.
Who Uses CoreX Falcon
- Plastic and rubber injection molders who need to validate internal geometry and wall thickness at production start — without cutting samples
- Aluminium die casters running porosity checks at the beginning of each production batch
- Extruded profile manufacturers measuring cross-sections without sample preparation
- Assembly validation teams checking correct component assembly in multi-material assemblies
- Quality engineers performing first-article inspections against CAD/STL files
- Warranty and returns analysts reconstructing failure modes from returned components
The Difference from Lab CT
CoreX with Falcon is not a replacement for high-resolution laboratory CT. It is a different category: purpose-optimized for specific part sizes and materials, designed for high inspection frequency, and operated without specialist training. Each configuration — CoreX ONE, CoreX ONE L, CoreX Micro — is built around the application it serves.
Lab CT answers questions that require maximum resolution or exotic geometries. CoreX Falcon answers the questions that production asks every day: is this part good? Is the process drifting? What is the porosity level in this batch?
Those questions deserve answers in seconds, not days.
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FAQs
Q: What is the CoreX Shopfloor CT?
A: The CoreX is an industrial CT machine by READY Metrology designed for use directly on the production floor, with a low learning curve, fast setup, and software built for operators — not metrology specialists.
Q: How does the CoreX 2D software show measurement results?
A: The new interface uses color-coded indicators next to each measured dimension, making it immediately clear which values are in tolerance and which are not — no expertise required.
Q: Can the CoreX detect production drift?
A: Yes. The integrated trend chart allows operators to monitor how measurements evolve across multiple parts, helping detect gradual process deviations before they result in scrap.