As developments in machine learning and the Internet of Things (IoT) impact how manufacturers run their businesses, automation can support these changes and boost productivity. Automation powers advanced IoT-enabled sensors and improves data collection, which can help manufacturers advance quality and processing speeds. This helps them forecast more accurately and reduce the chance of costly rerouting [...]
Sciphyn offers an extremely effective robotic process to clean & inspect industrial and municipal water vessels (cooling towers, pits, basins, ponds, process water, fire water, potable water, etc.) all while your unit/facility remains in-service, in full operation, with no outages. We provide cleaning, sediment mapping, visual inspections, and UT data collection services. Who is Sciphyn? Our [...]
Screening Eagle Technologies (SET), a cloud-based technology platform connecting sensors, software, and data for intelligent inspection of assets and infrastructure, is pleased to announce it has raised CHF 55 million in its first institutional round of equity funding. Screening Eagle is on a mission to protect the built world. Massive economic value is at risk from [...]
Market-leading inspection technology combines with blade specialists to better meet customers’ inspection and repair needs As wind turbines get larger, older and installed offshore more, drone-based inspection is becoming an integral part of maintaining assets in this growing segment of the renewable energy industry. Clobotics Holdings Ltd. has acquired AtSite to make it a fully owned [...]
The WHY of Industrie 4.0 and the WHY of NDE 4.0. The purpose. For me WHY is always a key question - however I think it is always one of the hardest - and most likely the answer will change over time. This weeks video is my attempt to answer this question and more importantly to [...]
Apellix™ Now Piloting Drone-Based UT Inspections Jacksonville, Florida...April 28, 2020 - Apellix, protecting the world’s built and industrial environments through technology, is proud to announce they are now identifying pilot projects for ultrasonic wall thickness (UT) inspections of above-ground storage and terminal tanks. Using semi-autonomous drones, Apellix performs UT wall thickness measurements on tanks as high [...]
Carestream’s Non-Destructive Testing organization today announced its partnership with California-based Creative Electron Inc. for the NDT product portfolio. Launched in 2008, Creative Electron manufactures and distributes high performance, off-the-shelf and custom X-ray inspection systems, made in the United States. These systems are used for quality assurance, material conformity and counterfeit detection in a wide range of [...]
Tokyo – Leading Classification Society ClassNK has released its "Guidelines for Non-destructive Inspection by Phased Array Ultrasonic Testing". Phased array ultrasonic testing is an advanced non-destructive inspection technology that enables the visualizing of flaw detection results and the digitizing of the record-keeping process. It has higher detection performance for defects in materials and welded joints compared [...]
Prior to 2015 no reliable non-destructive test method existed for measuring the collapse pressure of deepwater pipeline joints, which are typically around 12 m (39.3 ft) long. Historically, the industry has favored testing a few specimen joints to destruction, then combining the results with the best available structural design techniques and a substantial safety factor to [...]
Dye penetrant (DP) testing, often referred to as a fluorescent penetrant inspections (FPI), is an important method of nondestructive testing of materials that occurs when a fluorescent dye is applied to a non-porous material surface to detect micro-fractures, delamination, seams and other defects with an ultraviolet light. ViewTech Borescopes is debuting the VJ-3 Ultraviolet (UV) video [...]