It was an exciting summer for the Vibrant team as a family of Digital Twin patents were issued. Congratulations to Vibrant inventors Thomas Köhler, Julieanne Heffernan and Leanne Jauriqui. Many [...]
Many Quality and Regulatory Systems such as ISO 9001 or AS13100 include statements like “Supplier shall perform MSA on all measurement systems used to measure ‘Critical’ or [...]
We’ve been using PCRT with a particular customer for more than 10 years. PCRT has helped them to reduce field failures, replace multiple other inspections, and save significant inspection [...]
PCRT has been used by parts-producers to replace Magnetic Particle, FPI, UT, EC and/or Xray inspections. While most folks familiar with Non Destructive Testing (NDT) realize that no 2 methods [...]
ASTM International has published a new Standard Guide for the non-destructive testing (NDT) of metal parts produced by additive manufacturing (AM) methods. The guide numbered ASTM E3166, is the [...]
Automation will play an increasingly important role as aerospace crawls back from the COVID driven down-turn. Over the past decade, automation has been a focus of OEMs in the manufacture of new [...]
Sometimes it takes a crisis to get us to rethink the way we do things. With the parking of thousands of aircraft worldwide, including the grounding 737 Max fleet it’s time to rethink some of our [...]