Materials Technology Institute (MTI) is sponsoring a two-day training program on Inspection of In-Service FRP Equipment & Piping. This unique program will provide a comprehensive overview of the areas that are of critical importance for evaluating the quality and conformance of plant FRP equipment and piping, as well as provide some basis around Fitness for Service. [...]
Inspectioneering has recently published a blog post titled "API 510 Pressure Vessel Inspection Code: FFS Evaluation of Widely Scattered Pits." Click the link above to read the full article. Introduction: API 579-1/ASME FFS-1, Part 6 defines pitting as: "localized regions of metal loss that can be characterized by a pit diameter on the order of the [...]
Recently, the UT Phased Array bolt and stud inspections of Control Union have been approved by DNV-GL. Together with our sister company ITS (International Test Solutions) we have been performing in-situ bolt and stud Phased Array inspections for some time now and have achieved great results and cost savings for our clients in offshore, maritime and [...]
2020 Annual Conference Information & Exhibit Space Selection is open for registration. The 2020 Nondestructive Testing Management Association (NDTMA) Annual Conference will be held at the Golden Nugget, Las Vegas USA the week of February 9, 2020. The conference will start on Tuesday evening, February 11 and end on Thursday, February 13; with training seminars on [...]
A gift valued at $1.001 million from Acting President Satish Udpa and his wife, Lalita Udpa, will support the education of Michigan State University College of Engineering students. Both are engineering professors at MSU and experts in the area of nondestructive evaluation. They made their gift before Satish Udpa’s appointment as acting president in January. Their [...]
Updates in 3.3 include multi-material dimensioning, native Q-DAS support, OCR-based automation, and high-quality volume meshing Volume Graphics has announced the latest generation of its software solutions for non-destructive quality assurance with industrial computed tomography (CT): Version 3.3 of VGSTUDIO MAX, VGSTUDIO, VGMETROLOGY, and VGinLINE. The company is the leading provider of industrial CT software, according to [...]
Oceaneering International, Inc. ("Oceaneering") has launched a new digital radiography solution for the oil and gas sector, the Trip Avoidance X-ray Inspection (TAXI™) system, aimed at reducing the number of unplanned shutdowns. Recognized as a finalist at this year’s SPE Offshore Achievement Awards’ "Innovator" category, the TAXI™ solution represents a step-change in industrial radiography operations. Typically, [...]
Tokyo – July 2, 2019 – Terra Drone Corporation, one of largest providers of industrial drone solutions in the world, is announcing the completion of its investment in RoNik Inspectioneering, a leading Dutch company that performs visual and ultrasonic inspections using wireless robotics. With this investment, RoNik Inspectioneering becomes a part of the Terra Drone group [...]
ABB’s free-swimming robot that redefines transformer inspection services received the 2019 ‘Power Product of the Year’ award. On May 30, 2019, ABB was honoured with an Electrical Review Excellence award for its ABB Ability™ inspection for transformers – TXplore™ -- in the ‘Power Product of the Year’ category. Electrical Review is the leading electrical industry publication [...]
Ultrasonic nondestructive testing, also known as ultrasonic NDT or simply UT, is a method of characterizing the thickness or internal structure of a test piece using high-frequency sound waves. The frequencies, or pitch, used for ultrasonic testing typically range from 500 kHz to 20 MHz, many times higher than the limit of human hearing. High-frequency sound [...]