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Fiberscope.net is pleased to announce that TROGLOTREK Pipe Crawlers are now being manufactured in North America following the acquisition of Troglotech by Jireh. As the official distributor with over 20 years of experience in the inspection equipment industry, Fiberscope.net continues to offer full support to customers, ensuring they receive the right product configurations and post-purchase assistance. [...]

Unsupervised learning has become an essential building block of artifical intelligence systems. The representations it produces, for example, in foundation models, are critical to a wide variety of downstream applications. It is therefore important to carefully examine unsupervised models to ensure not only that they produce accurate predictions on the available data but also that these [...]

Investment Advances X-ray CT Technology, Driving Growth and Innovation For an Era of Supply Chain Disruption CAMBRIDGE, MA, March 13, 2025 - Lumafield, a pioneering developer of industrial X-ray CT technology, today announced it has closed a $75 million Series C funding round. The funding solidifies the company’s position as a leader in advanced manufacturing as [...]

Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division has launched the 2025 TubeInspect system, a non-contact optical quality inspection solution that delivers reliable measurement results in seconds and helps manufacturers streamline tube and wire workflows. Building on mature metrology device and software heritage, the next-generation solution integrates advanced optical measurement with effortless workflow automation, setting a new benchmark for production [...]

A research team from the University of Klagenfurt is collaborating with industry partner AIR6 SYSTEMS on the FFG-funded DORBINE project to create a novel technology that employs artificial intelligence to manage swarms of drones that monitor wind turbines while in operation. Traditionally, to check wind turbines for damage, they must be turned off. This indicates that [...]

Cygnus Instruments was born in the marine industry, working alongside ship surveyors and commercial divers to this day. Four decades on, this knowledge of the industry and its challenges is second to none. Cygnus is now the world-renowned maker of easy-to-use, highly accurate ultrasonic testing (UT) equipment for corrosion inspection, flooded member detection, and leak detection [...]

SREM TECHNOLOGIES a new supplier for Aerospace Industry with the FLUXO RANGE – AMS 2644 Approved - for PENETRANT TESTING. SREM TECHNOLOGIES has developed a range of BIODEGRADABLE Penetrants to meet the needs of manufacturers; and these 2 new references are also listed in the QPL-AMS-2644: FLUXO B12 - Fluorescent Penetrant - Water Washable - Method [...]

Fiberscope.net has added a motorized reel cable box option to the STRAHL HD Well Camera, making well and borehole inspections easier and more efficient. This upgrade removes the need for manual winching, allowing operators to raise and lower the camera with less effort. The motorized winch and 200-meter reinforced cable give operators better control over camera [...]

X-ray nondestructive testing technology is widely used for inspecting welds and identifying defects, and is crucial in the manufacturing industry. However, the diversity of welding defects and the imbalanced defect samples reduce defect classification model accuracy and can cause classifier overfitting. This paper proposes an improved DCGAN model for generating welding defect samples by integrating deep [...]

SHINING 3D is proud to announce a strategic global partnership with InnovMetric, the creators of the PolyWorks universal 3D metrology software platform. This collaboration marks a significant milestone for both companies, as SHINING 3D becomes a global partner of the PolyWorks Inspector software, further empowering customers with advanced solutions for diverse 3D metrology needs. "The synergies [...]