#Industry News
Third Dimension launches pivotal new GapGun solution for fast, accurate and centred countersink measurement
Third Dimension has launched an all new countersink measurement solution for its GapGun range. The first of its kind on the market, it can calculate the dimensions of a countersink hole to accurately predict the flushness of fasteners once fitted.
What’s more, it can operate in real time on the production lines of aircraft, cars and vans, and also in the energy and marine markets.
Last year in the commercial aviation industry alone, 1481 planes were manufactured with a total estimated 296 million countersinks. The average requirement is to measure 5% of each aircraft’s 200,000 countersink holes, meaning 10,000 countersink holes would have to be measured for every commercial aircraft produced. Done manually, these checks rely heavily on the competencies of the operator and are extremely time consuming.
