#ndt Registered Marine Surveyor, Nick Vass MIIMS, conducted a recent survey of a 62′ steel Dutch-style narrowboat "Jan van der HrrM" which was constructed in 2005. The survey took place in drydock, earlier this year, using a Cygnus 4 General Purpose ultrasonic thickness gauge to measure the thickness of the hull’s steel plating, rudder blade and [...]
#ndt BACKGROUND Flooded Member Detection is an inspection regime designed to screen subsea platform structural members for defects. A cracked weld, for example, can allow the ingress of sea water into the member which may create a point of failure for the structure. Operators therefore inspect these members on a regular basis to gain confidence that [...]
#ndt It was our great pleasure to welcome Mr Salman Mohamed Almalek of Vibrant Machines for Technical Services from Bahrain for service training. Vibrant Machines for Technical Services have been an exclusive distributor of Cygnus Instruments since 2012 and are now committed to offer full aftersales support, since receiving service training at our UK Head Office. [...]
#ndt How to deploy 3D imaging technology into your inspection application Date: June 15, 2018 11:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time 10:00 AM Central Daylight Time 08:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time 15:00 Greenwich Mean Time Cost: Free to attend. Duration: One hour. Presented by: Craig Borsack, President, G2 Technologies For certain machine vision inspection applications, 2D cameras [...]
#ndt Hexagon AB, a leading global provider of information technology solutions, announced today the acquisition of NEXTSENSE, a leading innovator in non-contact profile measurement and surface inspection. NEXTSENSE specialises in solutions that enhance product quality with speed and efficiency at micrometre accuracy in the automotive, railway, steel and aerospace industries. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in [...]
#ndt The fact is that regulations and standards are now requesting that inspection data is to be recorded and traceable. This means that inspectors of nuclear plants, airplanes, refineries, and aerospace equipment need a strategic plan to store the data. Many factors should be considered to choose the right solution. At Amotus we were interested to [...]
#ndt Metal Fatigue Solutions (MFS), producer of the next generation of advanced Nondestructive Testing (NDT) and Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) technology systems for major civil and industrial infrastructure, today announced that its Electrochemical Fatigue Sensor (EFSTM) technologies have been independently evaluated in a 36-page report by the highly regarded Iowa State University's (ISU) Bridge Engineering Center [...]
#ndt On the heels of its groundbreaking success with BNSF Railway in the achievement of truly automated long-range UAS supplemental track inspections, Bihrle Applied Research (Bihrle) announced today that it is spinning-off its computer vision and machine learning capabilities in a new venture called Ardenna (www.ardenna.com), which will offer solutions for the automated detection, classification and [...]
#ndt The concrete Pantheon in Rome is in excellent condition after 2 000 years. Steel reinforcement can dramatically reduce lifespan of concrete structures however and deterioration can begin after only 10 years. Infrastructures such as bridges and roads are usually reinforced concrete, which need continuous monitoring for regular operation and safety. Large concrete structures pose various [...]
#ndt Vision Systems recently had a Q&A with Marc Landman, Vice President, CCS America in which computational imaging technologies, benefits, products, and applications within machine vision are discussed. Click the link above for the full article. You recently released the LSS-2404 lighting controller for computational imaging. What led to this product being developed, and why? Precision [...]