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Scan recipes are custom workflows that allow you and your team to achieve consistent, reliable results across repeated scans and inspections. These workflows can navigate a number of common scenarios, and are customizable to your use case and specific needs. Work with your Customer Success Manager or email customersuccess@lumafield.com to explore your application and to get scan recipes on your scanner. 

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How do they work?

Scan Recipes are step by step workflows. They can display custom components including images, animated gifs, explanatory text as well as form inputs like sliders and radio buttons, similar to the rest of your scanner’s software. Arrange this flexible set of components to design each step of your workflow, which is defined entirely by you. The result of a workflow can be radiographs, tags, one CT scan or many.

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Example Scan Recipes

These examples show some of what is possible with Scan Recipes. Contact your Customer Success Manager to get one for yourself!

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Recipe 1: run a preconfigured scan

Instead of repeating a scan from history, promote that scan to a Scan Recipe so that you and your team have easy access to shortcuts of your most common scans. Embed a thumbnail and add a description to make it easy for your whole team to use your scanner. 

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Recipe 2: run a preconfigured scan and tweak some parameters

If your team scans a lot of parts that are similar in composition, but slightly different, this workflow is for you. Define a recipe that establishes a baseline of fixed settings, and then allow key variables to be tweaked by the operator. Guarantee successful scans with a margin of flexibility at the time of scan.

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Recipe 3: multi-scan, multi-project

A single scan recipe can take multiple scans in a row automatically after one setup workflow. An example of this could be a series of parts arranged in a vertical stack or column. Perhaps you want to reduce setup time and let your parts scan each night, but you want each part to have an analysis recipe run and each part to be shown in its own Voyager project. Set up a recipe like this to make your Neptune an automatic serial scanner.

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Recipe 4: multi-scan, single project, stitch scans together

Multiple scans can also be placed within a single Voyager Project. A canonical example of this is a mosaic scan of a pencil. A Scan Recipe can scan the pencil one inch at a time in a series of scans and upload them to Voyager where an analysis recipe can stitch them together. Automated analysis can then be performed on the resulting high resolution single pencil volume. 

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Recipe 5: manual inspection - operator can mark a pass or fail

Manual inspection of radiographs continues to be a core workflow that many teams use to quickly and visually assess their part. In some cases, this is even codified into a rigorous procedure where dozens of angles must be checked and marked as pass or fail. Work with your Customer Success Manager to set up a Scan Recipe that ensures this is a repeatable, reliable process and keep a full record of each angle and decision. 

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Conclusion

Scan Recipes are flexible workflows that can level up your teams ability to take advantage of industrial X-ray CT. If you find yourself repeating a lot of scans or wishing to establish a firm SOP for scanner usage in your facility, contact your Customer Success Manager to get set up with Scan Recipes.