The introduction of phase coherence imaging (PCI) in the OmniScan™ X3 64 flaw detector has vastly improved the visualization and characterization capabilities for some of most difficult-to-detect defects using today’s conventional ultrasound techniques. PCI’s imaging enhancements offer improvements not only for these challenging use cases, but also for common use cases such as weld inspections and [...]
Tokyo, August 29, 2022 – Olympus Corporation ("Olympus") and EVIDENT Co., Ltd. ("Evident"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Olympus announced today that Olympus concluded a definitive agreement with Bain Capital Private Equity, LP ("Bain Capital"), regarding the transfer of Evident. Based on this agreement, all shares of Evident will be transferred to Bain Capital on January 4, [...]
Born from the desire to help with inspection climbing, Astria by Pitch Aeronautics is a hybrid-cyclorotor drone optimized for up-close and touch-based robotic tasks. It can put a five to 10lb payload near or in contact with an elevated target as the company states. "The way industrial inspections are done today is largely unchanged from how [...]
Israel-based smart visual inspection company Kitov.ai has significantly simplified the setup of robotic vision inspection systems with CAD2SCAN, a CAD-based automated inspection planning tool. CAD2SCAN is the latest feature of the Kitov Smart Planner. By combining CAD2SCAN with Kitov’s Smart Visual Inspection and Review Station, customers can automate inspection solutions that are too difficult and time-consuming [...]
Trueflaw (Finland) and EPRI (USA) used artificial intelligence (AI) to evaluate inspection data at a U.S. nuclear power plant. As part of the first of its kind field trial, the ultrasonic inspection data from non-destructive evaluation (NDE) of pressure vessel head penetrations was evaluated using AI developed by Trueflaw. Critical components in power plants are inspected [...]
Vietnam’s leading IT firm, FPT Software, has recently entered a strategic partnership with Silicon Valley AI and machine vision leader Landing AI. Both companies will tap into their Artificial Intelligence (AI) expertise, deploy end-to-end visual inspection solutions, and promote the adoption of computer vision across industries. FPT Software will promote Landing AI’s flagship product, LandingLens™, an [...]
For many industrial inspection tasks, wavelengths outside of visible light are more meaningful than the light spectrum perceivable by humans. For such applications, SVS-Vistek offers new powerful SWIR and UV industrial cameras as well as polarization cameras. The human eye can detect light with wavelengths of about 400 to 750 nanometers. For many years, industrial image [...]
Yokogawa Electric Corporation and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd (MHI) announce that they have been selected by the Nippon Foundation, a private, non-profit grant-making organization, to undertake a project as part of the Nippon Foundation - DeepStar(Note1) Joint Research and Development Program for the promotion of decarbonization in the field of offshore oil and natural gas. The [...]
New Scale Robotics will highlight its Q-Span® Automated Gauging System at the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS 2022) Sept. 12-17 in Chicago. Continuous live demonstrations in the booth will show this flexible robotic workstation measuring parts and collecting the data using three common gauges. A Monday morning conference session will help QC teams explore how to [...]
In this article I share my first experience with the guided wave testing (GWT) instrument, Sonyks™. It must have been around 2008 when I first discovered GWT in the field of non-destructive testing (NDT), and I was quite intimidated by the complexity the subject was showing firsthand. As an experienced ultrasonic testing (UT) operator from the [...]