NDE and Inspection (Page 3)

Do you want to become a certified welding inspector? This winter, EWI and the CWB Group will launch a Certified Welding Inspector Prep Course for individuals planning to take the AWS CWI/CWE exam.* The first session will be held at EWI’s New York office in Buffalo, NY, February 13-17, 2023. A second class will take...

To date, part fabricators have not adopted vision-based inspection technology – mostly due to the perception that it is 1) expensive, and 2) hard to implement. That perception is becoming outdated. In Integrating a Collaborative Robot and a CMM Arm for Automated 3D Scanning, automation engineer Reed Truax describes an automated, easy-to-use metrology system developed...

The ability to make repairs to ships at sea and easily evaluate the results while in service is a potential game-changer for the U.S. Navy. Recently, EWI tested two new technologies at sea during the NCMS Repair Technology Engagement Exercise (REPTX). The demonstrations aboard the Navy’s Self-Defense Test Ship verified the ease and effectiveness of...