A semiconductor manufacturer faced a production shutdown when some of its suppliers could no longer provide replacement parts for its aging production equipment. After reverse engineering the parts with 3D scanning, the manufacturer now regularly reproduces and reinstalls the discontinued parts as they age.

After scanning two key components of a call--the barrel and the insert--NVision (Southlake, Texas) provides RedBone with computer-aided design (CAD) files containing all the dimensional details of the hand-built parts, which are then used for reproduction.