DÜRR NDT looks back in 2021 on 15 years of innovations and milestones in industrial digital radiography. Founded in 2006 as a subsidiary of Dürr Dental SE, DÜRR NDT developed within a very short time to become one of the market-leading manufacturers of imaging plate scanners for non-destructive testing (NDT) with the product launch of its [...]
Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly 75% of the world’s aviation fleet was grounded at the peak meaning that fewer than 7,500 aircraft remained airborne. Some estimates state are that it will take a minimum of two-and-a-half years post the peak of the Coronavirus pandemic for the grounded 75% to take to the skies once more. As [...]
Edmund Optics®, leading global manufacturer and supplier of optical components, has partnered with Jenoptik to enhance global access to their F-theta lenses, which focus lasers in high-precision materials processing and laser scanning applications. Stefaan Vandendriessche, Director of Laser Optics Product Development at EO, stated, "EO is excited to offer state-of-the-art, F-theta lenses for the most advanced [...]
Surface Corrosion Consultants Ltd., Europe’s largest coating inspection company, has announced they launched a new UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) service to monitor and inspect corrosion for our clients across the UK and Europe. The new service will offer long-term solutions such as reduced overheads and operations costs, as well as a host of health and safety [...]
Velodyne Lidar, Inc. (Nasdaq: VLDR, VLDRW) today announced ANYbotics is equipping its autonomous mobile robots with Velodyne’s Puck™ lidar sensors. ANYbotics robots provide industrial operators with an automated robotic inspection solution to support efforts in monitoring and maintaining plants. ANYbotics’ four-legged robot ANYmal performs inspection and monitoring tasks in challenging industrial terrains such as mining and [...]
Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) actually reduces the cost and time of sub-surface characterisation when carried out along with appropriate validation with invasive techniques. The best tools in the NDT category for the hills will be Seismic, Electrical Resistivity and Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) which is very useful in subsoil investigations and offers concrete characterisation of different layers. [...]
Within the last 12 months, a series of significant steps have been made in the world of offshore robotics; a number of legged and tracked robots made their first steps onto and around offshore facilities in Malaysia, the Netherlands, Norway and the US. For operators, it’s a big leap to have these things on facilities. For [...]
Auterion has announced a partnership with thermal imaging leader Workswell to provide state-of-the-art bispectral cameras on drones across industries. By offering an open standards software integration, Auterion makes it easy for any drone and parts manufacturer using its open platform to choose Workswell’s renowned WIRIS Pro and WIRIS Security thermal imaging cameras. The software integration will [...]
Radioactive material headed to Michigan from an Ohio company never made it to its destination, according to a filing by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, prompting one expert to call the mishap "inevitable" considerinof the millions of shipments of the material each year. Read the full article at Detroit News. Source: NDT
Computer-aided design (CAD) and engineering firm CAD / CAM Services announced its exclusive partnership with Taiwan-based Microtek to release the NDT-2000 in North America. The NDT-2000 is a next-gen industrial film digitizer capable of offering high resolution images, while being specifically engineered for the non-destructive testing (NDT) radiography testing (RT) industry. Until now, NDT professionals were [...]