#ndt For years, pipeline companies, utilities and other infrastructure intensive businesses sent workers to personally inspect critical infrastructure to avoid downtime. It was a costly and time-consuming approach. "The ‘Stone Age’ of infrastructure inspections saw workers walking the line, or flying in helicopters to look for problems," says Gytis Barzdukas, GE Digital’s head of product management [...]
#ndt Subsea equipment specialist Ashtead Technology has announced the appointment of Scott Stephen as its new Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) sales manager. Based at the company’s headquarters in Aberdeen, Scott will be responsible for business development and general sales and rental of NDT equipment and accessories, including phased array, ultrasonic flaw detection, corrosion mapping, eddy current flaw [...]
#ndt Sigma Labs, headquartered in Santa Fe, has built an intricate network of partnerships throughout the world—and it just keeps expanding. Most recently we followed as the QA specialist company announced it would be contracting with Honeywell Aerospace, joining with Morf3D, collaborating with Jaguar Precision Machine Corporation, and also receiving a contract from Solar Turbines for [...]
#ndt Cyberhawk, the world’s leading engineering company using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), has been named a finalist in two categories at this year’s Energy Innovation Awards. The company has been shortlisted for ‘Best Offshore Renewables Innovation’ and ‘Best Safety Improvement’, for its use of UAVs across the offshore wind and electricity utilities sectors. The company has [...]
#ndt The National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) at Wichita State University has expanded its capabilities with the addition of several nondestructive inspection (NDI) systems, including an industrial-scale digital X-ray and 3D computed tomography system, or X-ray CT. The X-ray CT is a multi-source (225/450 kV) and multi-detector comprehensive system used to inspect small and large [...]
#ndt Vijay Alreja, president of the New York-based VJ Group, has been awarded the Ray H. Witt Metallurgy Award from the Advanced Casting Research Center (ACRC) at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). The award, presented at the recent ACRC biannual meeting on the WPI campus, recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to the metal casting industry. [...]
#ndt Nowadays drones are widely used in a number of industrial applications. These flying robots provide unmatched advantages and a whole new range of capabilities for commercial clients allowing them to cut down operational costs. By eliminating the need of using expensive equipment or the need to temporarily shut down the infrastructure facilities for the purpose [...]
#ndt The demand for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)—aka drones—is growing rapidly, with strong growth in markets such as surveillance and precision agriculture, among dozens of others. A report by Statistics MRC pegs the global drone market as growing to $22.15 billion by 2022. A report from Goldman Sachs Research forecasts an even larger market opportunity for [...]
#ndt The Clover Park Technical College Board of Trustees capped its July meeting by awarding tenure to CPTC Nondestructive Testing instructor Charles Musson. Musson has worked in nondestructive testing since 1976. He began his time in the aerospace industry with stints at National Airmotive Corporation in Oakland, California, and Lockheed Missiles and Space Company in Sunnyvale, [...]
#ndt Following initial meetings at Subsea Expo 2017 and subsequent discussions TSC Inspections and Goshawk Technologies finally met to put drone technology to the test, with the aim to successfully prove the concept of deploying ACFM inspection technology using specialist UAS for aerial inspection. Using weld inspection plates mounted at the height of 3-4 metres, the [...]