Monthly Archives: January 2021

Pinnacle, the world’s leading provider of data-driven reliability and integrity programs, today announced it has acquired Houston-based Trinity Bridge, LLC, a consulting company specializing in Risk-Based Inspection programs for the refining and petrochemical industries. This comes on the heels of Pinnacle’s announced rebrand and reinvestment into technology and systems to create next generation reliability solutions for [...]

Tekscan, Inc. today announced that its board of directors has appointed Jeff Ames as President & CEO, effective immediately. Jeff will lead all strategic and operational initiatives to position Tekscan for successful growth and value creation. Tekscan was acquired by Artemis Capital Partners (Artemis) earlier this year. Jeff brings over 25 years of experience in engineered [...]

The British Institute of NDT (BINDT) Advisory Group on Strategic NDT Leadership has appointed Mark Dowell as founding Chair of the NDT Leadership Forum. The objective of the NDT Leadership Forum is to provide an effective, independent and long-term national forum that can: • Brief government and influence other engineering professions about the benefits of non-destructive [...]

Verasonics is committed to delivering premier research ultrasound technology with its leading-edge Vantage™ Ultrasound Research System exclusively designed for academic and commercial investigators. These real-time, software-based, programmable systems accelerate research and development for various ultrasonic and acoustic projects by providing unsurpassed speed and flexibility to simplify data collection and analysis. Vantage Research Ultrasound Systems are now [...]

Instead of having human operators hanging off ropes to inspect huge hyperbolic cooling towers, Sterblue, a software developer for industrial asset inspections and management, developed a fully automated drone solution. Using an off-the-shelf drone connected to Sterblue’s mobile app, the company performed an exterior inspection of a power plant’s hyperbolic cooling tower concrete shell at a [...]

DJI’s new Mavic 2 Enterprise Advanced is the latest addition to DJI’s commercial fleet. The Mavic 2 Enterprise Advanced "adds a plethora of performance upgrades to its predecessor," says a DJI press release. The new release is a recognition that the powerful but small Mavic 2 Enterprise has been used for a wide variety of commercial [...]

NTS, the leader in testing, inspection, and certification solutions in North America, is pleased to announce that its laboratory in Los Angeles, California, has substantially expanded its Thermal Vacuum (TVAC) testing capabilities, further solidifying NTS’s leadership position in space qualification testing. The NTS lab secured two additional TVAC Chambers and completed a series of upgrades to [...]

Reliable and accurate positive material identification (PMI) analyzers that can be taken to remote locations or deep within large industrial plants are today’s essential kit in asset integrity inspection. Optical emission spectroscopy (OES) technology has been relied upon for years to deliver the full chemistry of a sample with excellent precision and accuracy. However, the rise [...]

Waygate Technologies has launched a revised and improved version of its ecosystem for inspection data management, InspectionWorks. The re-launch includes an contemporary user interface and user experience design and new features including fleet management, remote monitoring diagnostics, inspection data storage and advanced analytics. The release is an important milestone for Waygate Technologies in its commitment to [...]

Imec has developed a prototype high-resolution short-wave-infrared (SWIR) image sensor with a record small pixel pitch of 1.82 µm. The sensor is based on a thin-film photodetector that is monolithically integrated on a custom Si-CMOS readout circuit. A fab-compatible process flow paves the way to high-throughput, wafer-level manufacturing. The technology that imec has presented largely exceeds [...]