UPGRADING BLADIS

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=100 BGCOLOR="#444444" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B><IMG SRC="b7c643a0.png" border=0 width="100" height="314" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B><IMG SRC="c6c77320.png" border=0 width="631" height="50" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="bfd141e0.png" border=0 width="20" height="30" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="T u r b i n e M e t r o l"><U><B><IMG SRC="bfe321e0.png" border=0 width="50" height="30" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B><IMG SRC="bfd141e0.png" border=0 width="20" height="30" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B><A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="PRODUCTS"><U><B><IMG SRC="b48511e0.png" border=0 width="81" height="30" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B><IMG SRC="bfd141e0.png" border=0 width="20" height="30" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B><A HREF="id55.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="SERVICES"><U><B><IMG SRC="b4a4c1e0.png" border=0 width="76" height="30" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B><IMG SRC="bfd141e0.png" border=0 width="20" height="30" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B><A HREF="id66.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="PUBLICATIONS"><U><B><IMG SRC="b4c681e0.png" border=0 width="104" height="30" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B><IMG SRC="bfd141e0.png" border=0 width="20" height="30" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B><A HREF="id68.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="NEWS"><U><B><IMG SRC="cb13c1e0.png" border=0 width="60" height="30" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><A HREF="id2.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="COMPANY"><U><B><IMG SRC="b20441e0.png" border=0 width="68" height="30" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="b2b4f1e0.png" border=0 width="79" height="30" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B><IMG SRC="bfd141e0.png" border=0 width="20" height="30" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B><A HREF="id14.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="CONTACT US"><U><B><IMG SRC="b2d461e0.png" border=0 width="70" height="30" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B><IMG SRC="bfd141e0.png" border=0 width="20" height="30" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B><A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ASSOCIATES"><U><B><IMG SRC="b30601e0.png" border=0 width="96" height="30" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B><IMG SRC="bfd141e0.png" border=0 width="20" height="30" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div>  <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#CC6600" FACE="Arial Black" ><IMG SRC="ba312c80.jpg" border=0 width="274" height="200" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></FONT> <IMG SRC="ba912c80.jpg" border=0 width="274" height="200" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="ba713c80.jpg" border=0 width="275" height="200" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>                                                                                                  </B></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Replacing DOS Bladis?</div> <div> <I><B>Increasingly  turbine engine builders are finding themselves in the very nervous position of operating earlier versions of this process-critical, DOS-driven software on outmoded 15 year-old 386 computers. Since this software cannot be migrated to newer platforms, these Users are only one computer failure away from shutting down their blade assembly processes. On the other hand, they find the cost of the newer Bladis software prohibitive.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Verdana" ><B>This was the situation in which General Electric's Greenville Gas Turbine operation found themselves in late 2001. GE approached TM with a design brief for a User-friendly, Windows-driven, reasonably priced piece of software to interface to existing pan and moment-weight scales. BalancePoint 1.0 went operational in early 2002 and immediately scored a hit with managers and assemblers, solving all the problems of the older software and offering better balancing in the bargain. </B></FONT><B>"We have seen a 90% decrease in out-of-balance rejections" since the introduction of </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#CC6600" FACE="Verdana" ><B>BalancePoin</B><B>t</B><B> </B></FONT><B>reported their engineer, adding that</B><B> </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#CC6600" FACE="Verdana" ><B>BalancePoint</B></FONT><B> </B><B>required 70% fewer steps in the weighing/balancing operation than their former software.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Now in release 6.0,  </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#CC6600" FACE="Verdana" ><B>BalancePoin</B><B>t</B></FONT><B> has been adopted by a number of other former Bladis operators for building both power generation turbines and jet engines.  Thanks to TM's </B><B>"Dimensional Tunneling Technology"</B><B> </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#CC6600" FACE="Verdana" ><B>BalancePoin</B><B>t</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#009900" FACE="Verdana" ><B> </B></FONT><B>quickly and efficiently </B><B>works through billions upon billions of possible combinations to </B><B>arrive at optimized blade placements for compressors. turbines, and aircraft thrust fans. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>BalancePoin</B><B>t</B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#009900" FACE="Verdana" ><B> </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Verdana" ><B>contains all the familiar features of Turbine Metrology software -- User-definable templates, configuration files, and a flexible interface to RS-232 / USB outputs in pan and moment weight scales -- all for thousands less than updating existing software.</B></FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>DOWNLOAD</B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Verdana" ><B> a PDF of this article in:  </B></FONT><B> </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#CC6600" FACE="Arial" ><B>      </B><A HREF="http://www.turbinemetrology.com/BP-BLADIS.pdf" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.turbinemetrology.com/BP-BLADI"><U><B><IMG SRC="cbe27140.png" border=0 width="39" height="20" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id33.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ROTOR BALANCING"><U><B><IMG SRC="c51621e0.png" border=0 width="98" height="30" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>