Draft:8tree

8tree is a company based in Konstanz and the Los Angeles area, which develops application-specific structured-light 3D scanners for surface inspection.

8tree was founded in 2012. Its products are used in aerospace manufacturing, aviation maintenance and wind turbine blade manufacturing industries. The company's main product for the aviation maintenance industry, Dentcheck, was first sold in 2015, and was certified in 2016, by Airbus (also recognized by Boeing, Bombardier and Embraer). According to Lufthansa Technik which tested Dentcheck in their Innovation Bay before implementing it in all of their Base Maintenance facilities, the technology saves them about 80% in time and cost. A smaller fuselage inspection tool was introduced in 2023.

Boeing uses the 8tree dentCHECK scanner at their Boeing 787 final assembly line.

The German Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing explains that the underlying 3D scanning technology used in 8tree products, stripe-light scanning is commonly used throughout the industry but has limitations since it can only scan surfaces and cannot look inside materials.

Awards and prizes
8tree was the winner of the SPIE Startup Challenge in 2013.

8tree Dentcheck won Vision Product of the Year Award in 2018 for Best End Product.

In 2020 8tree was granted the VR-Innovationprize.