EXECUTIVE SUMMARY An inspection services company provided dolphitech with a curved section of a wind turbine blade skin material made from Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymer to test the ability of the dolphicam2 to detect out-of-plane wrinkles. The dolphicam2+ with a TRM-EC-1.5MHz transducer module could successfully detect wrinkles and delaminations in the part. The results are presented [...]
DEKRA participated in the 30th Edition of CHEMTECH World Expo from 8th - 11th June 2022 at JIO World Convention Centre, Mumbai. CHEMTECH World Expo is a platform for global chemical manufacturing companies to collaborate and invite participants from industries like EPC, Specialty Chemicals, Refining & Petrochemicals, Water, Industrial Automation & Control, Pumps Valves & Fittings [...]
British inspection specialist PFE Limited uses FLIR Thermal Studio software to accelerate site inspections and reporting, and to deliver consistent reporting quality to its demanding customer base. Based in Wallasey, North-West England, PFE Limited is a family-owned business, specializing in a wide range of inspection and reliability services for industrial customers. To provide trustworthy and repeatable [...]
Chris Nielsen is the Founder and CEO of Levatas. Levatas builds end-to-end AI solutions, machine learning models, and human-in-the-loop systems that supercharge the way businesses are automating visual inspection. Levatas and its patented machine learning technology, the Cognitive Inspection Platform™, fully automates industrial inspection programs for its global, market-leading customers. The Cognitive Inspection Platform™ integrates with [...]
To optimize biomaterials for reliable, cost-effective paper production, building construction, and biofuel development, researchers often study the structure of plant cells using techniques such as freezing plant samples or placing them in a vacuum. These methods provide valuable data but often cause permanent damage to the samples. A team of physicists including Ali Passian, a research [...]
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 [...]