#ndt In August, personnel from WesDyne Sweden AB, along with colleagues from WesDyne International LLC (both fully owned Westinghouse subsidiaries), and Westinghouse Electric Company LLC, used specialized robots to inspect all required boiling water reactor core shroud weld seams at the Kernkraftwerk Mühleberg (KKM) Nuclear Power Plant in Mühleberg, Switzerland. To successfully perform this inspection, the [...]
#ndt Innerspec Technologies in partnership with WHEMCO has developed a new roll inspection system that permits inspection of rolls of any alloy, forged and cast, with unparalleled performance and capabilities. The Rollmate G4 incorporates a patented hybrid technique with 20 ultrasonic and magnetic sensors to detect roll defects as small as 0.1mm in depth, and perform [...]
#ndt YXLON International, a company of the Swiss tech holding, COMET Group, has received a 2017 Global Technology Award in the category of Inspection – X-ray for its YXLON FF35 CT multi-application, high-resolution computed tomography (CT) inspection system for fine parts. The award was presented to the company during a ceremony on Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017 [...]
#ndt Designed for the observation and inspection of metal components, the new Olympus GX53 inverted metallurgical microscope features an LED light source for ultra-long life and low power consumption. The GX53 microscope also incorporates the latest version of OLYMPUS Stream image analysis software (v. 2.3) for improved observation and reporting capabilities. Inverted metallurgical microscopes observe samples [...]
#ndt The China Mobile Global Partner Conference was held in Guangzhou at the Poly World Trade Center Expo in the Pazhou. China Mobile joined industry partners, including Ewatt Aerospace, at home and abroad to explore new modes of industrial cooperation in areas of all-internet connectivity and build new ecosystems of industries. At the expo, artificial intelligence [...]
#ndt Companies are continually looking for ways to speed up assembly and Virtek’s new Iris™ 3D with the Vision Positioning System (VPS) helps its customers achieve this. Debuting to the Americas at CAMX 2017 in Orlando, Virtek will be demonstrating the Vision Positioning System at booth #L51. Through Iris 3D with VPS, Virtek continues to innovate [...]
#ndt The Southern African Institute of Welding (SAIW) has acquired the assets of Cape Town-based NDT Academy of South Africa (NASA) with effect from 1 January 2018. According to SAIW executive director, Sean Blake, the acquisition is in the interests of both parties and the industry as a whole. "SAIW has traditionally not offered Non-Destructive Testing [...]
#ndt Sonomatic, a global market leader in the provision of advanced and conventional NDT inspection and engineering services, recently won the NDT and Rope Access contract for Petroineos Manufacturing Limited. The contract is for two years with the potential for a one-year extension, beginning on December 4th. Sonomatic has been in operation for over 40 years [...]
#ndt LSP Technologies, Inc. (LSPT) has been awarded a U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Technology Transition Program to enhance its Laser Bond Inspection (LBI) system used to evaluate bond strength in adhesively bonded composite structures. The program is aimed at developing a fiber optic delivery system that will increase the flexibility and capability [...]
#ndt People are encouraged to get annual health checks to reinforce building a long, healthy life. For the U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor, those "health checks" are completed each day they fly. The fifth generation fighter jet’s health is kept up to par thanks to the help of the nondestructive inspection team at Joint Base Langley-Eustis. [...]