When we’re sick we go to the doctor for a diagnosis but where do aircraft go for unseen issues? Aircraft at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia go to the 558th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron non-destructive inspection office with the 402nd Maintenance Group for their diagnosis. "Each aircraft arriving to Robins Air Force Base for depot level maintenance [...]
Test Equipment Distributors LLC, located in Troy, Michigan, has appointed Tony Sansavera as a sales representative for the NDT equipment and services division serving the Michigan, Ohio, western Pennsylvania, western New York, and West Virginia territories. Sansavera has almost 40 years of NDT experience and previously served as a business unit manager at X-R-I Testing, a [...]
Persistent underfunding of critical infrastructure worldwide is hampering economic progress and exposing businesses and communities to significant risks, according to the World Economic Forum. In fact, the forum’s Global Risks 2019 report said, worldwide investment in infrastructure is expected to be $79 billion by 2040, while the actual global investment needs to be closer to $97 [...]
Vieworks, a global leader in machine vision industry, launched its newest 16k hybrid Time Delayed Integration (TDI) line scan camera – VT-16K5X-H300. The latest model in Vieworks' VT Series of TDI cameras achieves a maximum line rate of up to 300 kHz with up to 256 x higher sensitivity. With such improved speed and sensitivity, VT-16K5X-H300 [...]
A multi-institution team has used positron beams to probe the nature of radiation effects, providing new insight into how damage is produced in iron films. This exploration can improve the safety of materials used in nuclear reactors and other radiation environments. "Positrons do not damage the material and they can reveal defects involving single atoms at [...]
DJI, the world’s leader in civilian drones and aerial imaging technology, announced a Solution Development Partnership with Shell Oil Company to create, test and deploy DJI drone technology at its Deer Park Manufacturing Complex to improve efficiency and worker safety during industrial inspections and emergency incident response. "As one of the world’s largest energy companies, Shell [...]
Can be customized for different holder and polymer stand-off lengths Innovation Polymers just released a new line of Zero Degree Phased-Array Delay-line probes and holders using Aqualene™, ACE™, and Aqualink™. Currently, these delay-line units come with a holder designed to mount a standard Olympus A12 or M2M G3 probe. Holders are designed to permit the delay-line [...]
ABB announced today that it has acquired the Spanish start-up company NUB3D, a leading innovator of digital, 3D inspection and quality-control solutions. The acquisition expands the group’s portfolio of ABB Ability™ solutions that connect customers to the industrial Internet of Things. ABB Ability builds on the intelligent cloud, using connected devices to generate actionable digital information [...]
TSP Engineering are delighted to announce that we are part of a consortium that has won a major contract as part of a £40million government initiative to kick start a clean energy economic recovery. The programme funded by the UK Government aims to create thousands of manufacturing and green R&D jobs through developing the next generation [...]
Unispectral's miniature tunable filter turns low cost IR cameras into 700-950nm spectral cameras. It is best suited for facial recognition, consumer portable devices, IOT, robotics and mass market cameras. ColorIR products enable advanced machine vision, material sensing and computational photography. TEL AVIV, Israel, July 20, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Unispectral, developer of the ColorIR™ filter, today announced [...]