Application Spotlight

Extruder Barrel Borescope Inspection

A worldwide leading supplier of high-tech polymer materials has added the ViewTech articulating video borescope to their toolbox for a variety of remote visual inspections. They’ve found articulating borescopes to be an essential tool in their manufacturing plant especially for the extruder barrel. A typical single screw extruder has four major components: gearbox, feed throat, barrel and feedscrew.

One of the main factors in achieving optimum efficiency is maintaining the proper alignment of the rotational center of the screw to the rotational center of the gearbox thrust shaft. The extruder barrel plays a huge part in this manufacturing plant. Our articulating video borescope saves time and money by allowing maintenance technicians to prevent downtime and avoid high costs of component replacement.

Learn more and download the ViewTech Video Borescope for Manufacturing Brochure.