What are quality management systems? In order to determine the difference between quality assurance and quality control, it is important to understand two fundamental concepts. For one, many people think that quality assurance and quality control are inherently the same process; in fact, even manufacturers often use quality assurance and quality control interchangeably. However, as this article ...
When it comes to ensuring infrastructure viability, even the tiniest components of the most complex, large-scale systems must be monitored and tested. Routine ultrasonic thickness testing of wall and coating thickness measurements serves as a vital check on the condition of ship hulls, pipelines, and other metallic elements where long-term exposure elements like saltwater or oil can corrode ...
Increasingly, industries are seeking various ways to enhance productivity and remove waste in their process. Flaw detection in the early stages of production can prevent long-term economic and productivity damage. In industries like manufacturing, petroleum, as well as military and defense that deal with metals or steel surfaces, corrosion can be a big issue. During the welding process of such ...
The manufacturing process relies heavily on materials and components that meet their specifications for structure, strength, and quality. Some materials being used in the process may require alteration in their properties to meet these specifications. Metallurgical heat treatment is one of the widely adopted methods to change the properties of these metals to meet the industry specification. ...
Oil and gas are drilled and pumped from the depths of the earth during hydrocarbon exploration. Before these hydrocarbons are transported to various destinations around the world, they are stored above ground in storage tanks. Companies rely on the integrity of storage tanks to keep their assets protected from the elements. Hence, the importance of storage tank inspections. Storage tank ...
Welding can be a highly complex process. When disparate components are welded together, there’s a chance that the connections can come apart—quickly or slowly, due to the presence of tiny fractures or flaws. The possibility of a structural issue being present increases when the length of a weld extends, such as in long, multipass welds. Nondestructive testing (NDT) is vital to the ...
Non-destructive testing (NDT) plays an important role in many industries that impact daily life. Industries including automotive, aviation, construction, railway, manufacturing, and energy utilize various NDT methods to ensure the safety and quality of equipment and infrastructure. NDT involves the use of various testing methods to examine the irregularities in an object. Sometimes the sheer ...
Factory acceptance testing (FAT) is a critical part of completing a new control system. The FAT will have all control system hardware connected, configured and operating as if in the factory before being installed on the site. This testing will allow the integrator to verify a complete system operation prior to the hardware installation to demonstrate to the owner that everything is functioning ...
Restaurants typically have refrigerator and freezer facilities for storing perishables. Larger restaurants and kitchens in hotels for example, have larger commercial type refrigerators. Whatever the size, monitoring restaurant refrigerators and freezers is important. In this article we will examine some of the reasons why remote monitoring of commercial refrigerators in restaurants is ...
When designing a server room monitoring solution there are a number of points to consider in order to ensure the system is cost-effective, reliable and provides the required functionality. The key considerations include: Type of sensors, number of sensors, alerting methods, integration with other hardware/software, future expansion and installation. Type of Sensors What conditions are you ...
Not all environmental technology providers are created equal. How do you ensure you make the smartest choice in such a significant relationship? Start by assessing these four qualities and asking the following questions to any potential environmental technology ...
A pipeline weld inspection is a common nondestructive testing (NDT) application in the oil and gas industry—and also challenging. Joining materials with different metallurgical properties, grain alignments, acoustic characteristics, cylindrical geometries, and other attributes can make flaws hard to ...
Rail durability and service life are affected by many things, from maintenance practices to temperature changes to differences in the composition of the steel across the track network in many ...
Improvements in nondestructive testing technology and especially the software and processing power of off-the-shelf, portable phased array ultrasonic instruments mean that internal pipeline corrosion, while obviously serious, doesn’t have to be the hidden threat that it was even just a few years ...
Advanced focusing techniques are valuable tools in the phased array toolkit. They can improve the resolution of flaw images and increase the coverage of ultrasonic ...
When an adverse event occurs, the immediate priority is to deal with the situation at hand. Move beyond those immediate and reactive issues and the improvement-minded naturally begin to think about causal and contributory factors and their related corrective actions. These typically fall into two key areas: human and system factors. Human Factors Driven by regulatory and accreditation ...
Project Major global sports network broadcasting facility Location Connecticut, USA Requirement Fast and reliable remote fuel leak monitoring system Results PermAlert designed and implemented leak detection system for entire fuel system Completion Date 2017 Overview Customer’s broadcasting facility operates 24/7 to support its programming for global sports fans. Needing to ensure the ...
Composite materials offer a wide range of benefits that make them popular in many industries. They can provide all the strength of other materials, while also being lightweight and fuel-efficient. However, because of their unique design, they often present challenges in composite structure inspection. Manufacturing can introduce flaws in composite materials that limit the efficacy of products. ...
The Challenge: Air Innovations was asked to design a Class I Division I environmental control system (ECU) to cool an electrical cabinet that houses several variable frequency drives for a large centrifuge machine. These drives generate a significant amount of heat that needs to be removed from the cabinet. Centrifuges are typically used to remove slurry during drilling for oil and gas ...
KBR, a leading provider of U.S. government cyber, military, and electronic security solutions, approached Air Innovations for help updating earlier-generation military trucks and utility vehicles into portable air traffic control systems. These humvees needed significant climate control system improvements to protect sensitive equipment and Air National Guard and U.S. Air Force personnel being ...