About Volume Graphics

Enabling Better Products

We develop leading software for the analysis and visualization of industrial 3D computed tomography data. As of 2016, more than 70% of the “Fortune Global 500” companies worldwide in the automotive and electronics industries were using Volume Graphics solutions for quality control, metrology, damage analysis, and product development.

Volume Graphics enables companies to make better products. Why? Because our software helps them to find out as much about their products as possible – and non-destructively at that. Industrial CT provides the basis for this, as CT scans reveal every aspect of a component.

Since 1997, Volume Graphics has been developing software for industrial CT at our company headquarters in Heidelberg, Germany. The headquarters in Heidelberg are the largest of Volume Graphics’ five locations. Employees in offices in the USA (Charlotte, NC), Japan (Nagoya), China (Beijing), and Singapore offer sales and support to customers and partners in their respective regions.

The old Volume Graphics headquarters

The old Volume Graphics headquarters

Our History

While the company was founded in 1997, the history of Volume Graphics actually dates back a few years earlier:

  • In the early 1990s, physicists Christof Reinhart, Thomas Günther, and Christoph Poliwoda developed a hardware system for the visualization of three-dimensional volume data sets based on images taken by CT scanners. It was the world's first computer capable of processing CT slice-image data sets in real-time and in 3D.
  • In 1997, Reinhart, Günther, and Poliwoda founded Volume Graphics GmbH. They shifted their focus from hardware to software and developed the first software application able to process CT slice-image stacks in 3D on standard PC hardware.
  • In 1998, Volume Graphics introduced its first software product: VGSTUDIO 1.0. From this point on, users no longer had to analyze volume data slice by slice. Instead, analyses of industrial CT scans covered the volume in all three dimensions.

OUR PRODUCTS

Analyzing, Testing, Measuring. With the Volume Graphics product family, all kinds of analyses and visualizations can be directly carried out on data from industrial computed tomography (CT).
VGSTUDIO MAX
The high-end software for the analysis and visualization of industrial computed tomography (CT) data
VGSTUDIO
The simple solution for the visualization of CT data
VGinLINE
The software for automated CT inspection
VGMETROLOGY
The universal metrology solution
myVGL
The free viewer app for your 3D data

Since 1997, Our Product Range Has Grown Significantly.

Volume Graphics software is successfully used in research, manufacturing, and quality assurance. No wonder, since Volume Graphics’ range of products supports all types of analyses and visualizations using industrial CT data.

<h2>Since 1997, Our Product Range Has Grown Significantly.</h2>

Solutions for Your Specific Needs

Discover what Volume Graphics software can do for you, regardless of whether you work in an industrial or scientific environment.

Volume Graphics Software in Industrial Use
Volume Graphics Software in Scientific Use

Our Services

Our customers get more than just software:

  • VG Academy offers training courses for VGSTUDIO MAX, VGMETROLOGY, and VGMETROLOGY VIEWER, as well as partner certification for VGSTUDIO MAX.
  • Our consulting services offer valuable advice regarding all aspects of industrial computed tomography and the analysis of 3D data. 
  • Custom development projects cover requirements that are beyond the scope of our standard software features.
  • Our interface VGPROJECT SDK provides producers of CT systems with a tool that connects their computed tomography scanners directly to VGSTUDIO MAX.
  • VGRECO makes it possible to integrate CT reconstruction capabilities right into your CT system by combining the flexible VGPROJECT SDK with the modular Volume Graphics CT reconstruction options.
  • Our animation experts create animated film sequences using CT data to provide unparalleled insight into CT analysis results.

Our Network

To serve our customers around the globe, we rely on a worldwide network of distributors. In addition to that, most major CT system providers sell Volume Graphics software together with their hardware.

Our company and/or our employees have memberships to the American Society for Nondestructive Testing, Inc. (ASNT), the International Association for the Engineering Modelling, Analysis and Simulation Community (NAFEMS), Deutschen Gesellschaft für Zerstörungsfreie Prüfung e.V. (DGZfP e.V.), French society COFREND, Japan Inspection Instruments Manufacturers’ Association (JIMA), and Japan Precision Measuring Instrument Manufacturers' Association (JPMIA).