Smart Vision Lights Expands US Operations With Appointment of Paul Powers

By |2017-06-27T17:55:00+01:00June 27th, 2017|Categories: Blog|Tags: |

#ndt Smart Vision Lights (SmartVisionLights.com), a leading designer and manufacturer of high-brightness LED lights for industrial applications, has expanded its sales and support operations in the Eastern United States with the appointment of Paul Powers. Powers, who will assume the position of Business Development Manager for the Eastern United States, brings more than 18 years of [...]

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Embedded Vision Propels Bead Inspection

By |2017-06-27T17:42:00+01:00June 27th, 2017|Categories: Blog|Tags: |

#ndt Automotive designers are more frequently turning to structural adhesives as a solution for strengthening, structurally optimizing and lightweighting automotive bodies. These adhesives enable mixing material types to achieve lightweight structures while meeting goals for safety, noise, vibration and harshness. Vehicle assemblies may now contain hundreds of adhesive beads. The dramatic increase in dispensed meters of [...]

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Sonaspection Opens NDT Training Center in Charlotte, NC

By |2017-06-27T17:27:00+01:00June 27th, 2017|Categories: Blog|Tags: |

#ndt CONCORD, N.C. — Sonaspection International has opened an NDT training centre at its manufacturing facility just outside of Charlotte, in Concord, N.C. The center will initially offer UT, phased array and TOFD training courses in line with a range of certification schemes, including BS EN ISO 9712 and SNT-TC-1. Further courses will be offered in [...]

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Zetec to Present FMC and TFM Course

By |2017-06-19T23:38:00+01:00June 19th, 2017|Categories: Blog|Tags: |

#ndt Zetec Technology Manager for PAUT, Daniel Richard, will be delivering a training course on Wednesday June 28th at the ASNT "Ultrasonics for Nondestructive Testing" event. The course is open to all attendees and is eligible for a requalification credit. Full Matrix Capture (FMC) is a data-acquisition process where each array element is sequentially used as [...]

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InfraTec Extends Entry Level Camera Offerings

By |2017-06-19T21:24:00+01:00June 19th, 2017|Categories: Blog|Tags: |

#ndt Thermographic cameras for mobile applications have hugely developed technically in recent years. At the same time, the demand for these cameras has risen noticeably. InfraTec, one of the leading suppliers in this sector, now presents with the compactIR 400 an affordable and yet powerful inspection camera that stands out significantly from its competitors. Right from [...]

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Understanding API Tank Requirements

By |2017-06-19T21:20:00+01:00June 19th, 2017|Categories: Blog|Tags: |

#ndt Every 3,000 miles, the car goes into the shop for an oil change and tire rotation. At the biannual teeth cleaning visit with the dentist, X-rays or fillings may be called for. Parental worries that inevitably set in once a newborn goes home from the hospital will be soothed by the confident words of her [...]

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Can Battleship Texas Win its War with Time and Corrosion?

By |2017-06-19T21:15:00+01:00June 19th, 2017|Categories: Blog|Tags: |

#ndt For decades, the USS Texas was one of the most feared battleships in the U.S. Navy. Armed with anti-aircraft guns during World War I, its crew kept German fleets from severing Allies' supply lines. It became the U.S. Atlantic Fleet's flagship before World War II, then fired on Nazi defenses at Normandy before being transferred [...]

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Gerald Posakony, NDT Pioneer, Dies at 92

By |2017-06-19T21:03:00+01:00June 19th, 2017|Categories: Blog|Tags: |

#ndt Gerald "Jerry" Posakony, a longtime researcher for the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, passed away May 27, 2017, at the age of 92. Over the course of a career that included more than 40 years at PNNL, Posakony's work centered on designing, developing and deploying first-of-a-kind nondestructive evaluation inspection and measurement systems, including [...]

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GE Testing Drones and Crawlers for Industrial Inspection

By |2017-06-19T21:00:00+01:00June 19th, 2017|Categories: Blog|Tags: |

#ndt General Electric Co has begun testing autonomous drones and robotic "crawlers" to inspect refineries, factories, railroads and other industrial equipment with an eye on capturing a bigger slice of the $40 billion companies around the globe spend annually on inspections. In trials with customers, aerial drones and robots are able to move around and inside [...]

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GE Launches Data-Driven Industrial Inspection Services

By |2017-06-19T20:55:00+01:00June 19th, 2017|Categories: Blog|Tags: |

#ndt Today at GE’s Minds + Machines Europe event, GE Ventures announced the launch of Avitas Systems, a new company that will use predictive data analytics, robotics, and artificial intelligence to deliver advanced inspection services to the oil and gas, transportation, and energy industries. Routine inspections can be slow and costly, and often include humans performing [...]

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