#ndt What are your Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) (a.k.a. metrics) for your Fixed Equipment Mechanical Integrity (FEMI) program(1)? Does your KPI list consist primarily of the tired old list of overdue inspections that are successfully tracking zeros month after month, year after year? Perhaps it’s time to freshen it up. You’ve probably heard that old saying [...]
#ndt MISTRAS Group, Inc. (NYSE:MG) continues to build on its decades of leadership in acoustic emission (AE) inspection technology with the debut of the Smart Leak Finder™. The tool is an industrial-grade leak detection device that interfaces directly with Android® mobile devices, delivering an inspection system tailored to the modern-day technician. The Smart Leak Finder™ uses [...]
#ndt Contrôle Mesure Systèmes has developed a special version of its eddy current rotating head, RotoETscan HV, suitable for line drawing inspection for a diameter range of 0,8 to 10 mm. This system, easy to install on the production line, integrates a turntable (cassette) adapted to the product diameter. Eddy current probes (2 or 4) installed [...]
#ndt FORT WORTH, Texas (NNS) -- A contractor-operated robotics inspection team from Burns & McDonnell and A.Hak Industrial Services conducted the first autonomous tank bottom inspection of a Department of Defense (DoD) bulk fuel tank at Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base July 10 - 14. This service is regularly performed in the commercial [...]
#ndt So many things in food production could go wrong: from fruits and vegetables getting moldy to insects and small animals invading bagged salads and packaged pastry. Let’s look how utomated visual inspection helps prevent these faults from coming into customers’ view. Discovering a rotten apple, a moldy cherry or a nasty insect in the produce [...]
#ndt Oct. 3-4 National Center for Aviation Training, 4004 N. Webb Rd. Cost: $755 All students who successfully complete this course will be awarded 0.5 graduate credit hours. A one-time $10 application fee is required if you have not previously enrolled at Wichita State University. Wichita State University is offering a two-day combined lab course twice [...]
#ndt Four collisions involving US Navy ships this year have resulted in the deaths of 17 sailors and the injury of several more, along with millions of dollars in equipment damage. Several senior officers have lost their jobs as a result. The worst of these accidents occurred in high-traffic areas in Asia: the USS Fitzgerald collided [...]
#ndt Chinese aircraft manufacturer Yuneec has taken aim at the industrial and commercial drone markets with a new hexacopter based on its consumer-grade Typhoon H aerial platform. The H520 features new mission planning software and a range of upgraded cameras, including one with a 1-inch Sony Exmor sensor. The H520 airframe itself doesn't appear to differ [...]
#ndt Sky-Futures, a UK provider of drone-based industrial inspection technology has launched a partnership with Mitsui & Co., Ltd. ("Mitsui") of Japan. The partnership will see Mitsui expand the use of drone-based remote sensing, industrial inspection and 3D asset management visualisation to its global network of Mitsui companies and clients initially in the energy, marine and [...]
#ndt Congratulations to Mx Industrial and its entire staff. ISO-17025 is the single most important standard for calibration and testing laboratories around the world. Accredited laboratories who achieve accredidation have demonstrated they are technically competent and able to produce precise and accurate test and calibration data. Mx Industrial is one of the few laboratories whose scope [...]