For many industrial inspection tasks, wavelengths outside of visible light are more meaningful than the light spectrum perceivable by humans. For such applications, SVS-Vistek offers new powerful SWIR and UV industrial cameras as well as polarization cameras. The human eye can detect light with wavelengths of about 400 to 750 nanometers. For many years, industrial image [...]
Yokogawa Electric Corporation and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd (MHI) announce that they have been selected by the Nippon Foundation, a private, non-profit grant-making organization, to undertake a project as part of the Nippon Foundation - DeepStar(Note1) Joint Research and Development Program for the promotion of decarbonization in the field of offshore oil and natural gas. The [...]
New Scale Robotics will highlight its Q-Span® Automated Gauging System at the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS 2022) Sept. 12-17 in Chicago. Continuous live demonstrations in the booth will show this flexible robotic workstation measuring parts and collecting the data using three common gauges. A Monday morning conference session will help QC teams explore how to [...]
In this article I share my first experience with the guided wave testing (GWT) instrument, Sonyks™. It must have been around 2008 when I first discovered GWT in the field of non-destructive testing (NDT), and I was quite intimidated by the complexity the subject was showing firsthand. As an experienced ultrasonic testing (UT) operator from the [...]
Back in 1990, at the age of 10, his father volunteered him to create 100 posters with the slogan "Macedonia is Greek" and "Never Forget Cyprus 1974" for the massive rally held in Washington, DC. By the age of 11, he started making replicas of emblems from the Batman movie and sold them to children in [...]
MISTRAS OneSuite™, the first-ever asset protection software ecosystem recently released by MISTRAS Group, Inc. (NYSE: MG) — a leading "one source" multinational provider of integrated technology-enabled asset protection solutions — is continuing to digitally transform asset protection, driven by early gains in customer adoption. OneSuite™ has now been implemented for nearly 40 customers at over 100 [...]
Donecle, the leading company in drone-based automated aircraft inspection, acquired Dronétix Technologie on April 20th to further expand the scope of its robotic inspections for airlines & MROs. Dronétix is a French company that has been developing an autonomous mapping drone for industrial assets since 2018. The technology enables automatic data capture and 3D reconstruction of [...]
Levatas, developers of AI software that enables robots, drones, remote sensors, and fixed cameras to execute operational tasks at industrial sites, announced that it has raised $5.5 million in a seed round led by Castellan Group. Levatas was founded by CEO Chris Nielsen, along with partners Ryan Gay and Daniel Bruce, who serve as Chief Financial [...]
Pine Environmental Equipment Highlight – SARCOS Guardian-S Magnetic Robotic Crawler. Pine is the exclusive Channel Partner for SARCOS products and is available for rental or purchase through Pine. Pine provides short and long-term rentals, rent-to-own, and financing options. This product has many applications, including boiler visual inspection, coal transport systems, coal, and Silo bunkers, tool and [...]
Pine Environmental Equipment Highlight – CUES Pushrod and Well Cameras. Pine is the exclusive Channel Partner for CUES products and is available for rental or purchase through Pine. Pine provides short and long-term rentals, rent-to-own, and financing options. These products have many applications, including pipe inspection and repair, plumbing pipes, drain inspection, tool and debris retrieval, [...]