Red Cat Holdings Subsidiary Skypersonic Highlights Two-year Facility Inspection Program with General Motors
May 17 2022 - 7:06AM
Skypersonic, a subsidiary of Red Cat Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: RCAT)
("Red Cat'' or the "Company"), a hardware-enabled software provider
to the drone industry, highlights a two-year program whereby
General Motors used the Skycopter™, a drone specifically designed
and equipped to perform inspections safely in challenging
environments, to perform crane rail inspections in all 19 of its
North American stamping (metalworking) facilities.
“Using the Skycopter, we are able to capture
information that is relevant to the maintenance of our facilities
and their internal structures in a relatively short amount of time.
We can capture information in two to three hours versus what would
normally take eight to twelve hours and that would also include
shutting the facility down completely, erecting scaffolds, and
hoisting personnel in the air and onto the rails for manual
inspection. The Skycopter provides an inspection and data
collection service that is faster than traditional methods while
also providing a much safer work environment for our employees,”
commented John Brown, Supervisor of Reality Capture for General
Motors North America.
“In our two years of rigorous use with the
Skycopter, we’ve exploited every potential point of weakness of the
system, and nobody has taxed this technology like we have. We have
learned a tremendous amount about the inspection capabilities of
the Skycopter and found its sweet spot. I can now talk with anybody
at General Motors and show them what we’ve done and ask them why
they would want to go anywhere else and do anything different for
facility inspection services. We are trying to get the Skycopter to
be a standard piece of equipment that we use across all our
plants,” Brown concluded.
The full inspection program took over two years,
including the initial planning and pilot training phases, while the
inspection process across all 19 facilities required 14 months. The
program consisted of video recording of 50,000 cumulative feet of
crane rails captured from 200+ flight hours by the Skycopter across
all 19 facilities for subsequent analysis by structural engineers.
The Skycopter was piloted by General Motors personnel at all times
following the completion of an initial pilot training program with
Skypersonic. Based on learnings from this initial inspection
program, General Motors believes it can materially reduce the next
round of crane rail inspections from 14 months for all 19 North
American stamping facilities to six months. Moreover, General
Motors is evaluating the use of the Skycopter in other inspection
applications across additional plants and facilities.
“I am proud that Skypersonic is able to
contribute to the advancement of industrial inspections by
providing advanced drone technology that reduces cost and increases
workplace safety. This General Motors case study is an excellent
case study in how drone technology and proper training can be used
to modernize legacy inspection processes,” said Skypersonic founder
Giuseppe Santangelo.
To see a video of General Motors representative
John Brown describing the use of the Skycopter for inspection
applications at the General Motors facilities, please click
here.
About Red Cat Holdings, Inc.Red Cat provides
drone-based products, services, and solutions through its five
subsidiaries, and services the enterprise, military, and consumer
markets. Teal Drones is a leader in unmanned aircraft systems
(UAS), and its Golden Eagle is one of only five drones approved by
the Department of Defense for reconnaissance, public safety, and
inspection applications. Skypersonic’s technology enables drones to
complete inspection services in locations where GPS is not
available, yet still record and transmit data even while being
operated from thousands of miles away. Fat Shark is a leading
provider of First Person View (FPV) video goggles. Rotor Riot, LLC
is a reseller of FPV drones and equipment, primarily to the
consumer marketplace. Learn more
at https://www.redcatholdings.com/.
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