X-ray weld inspection – High-tech meets heavy industry

During the production of safety relevant pipes, tanks or high pressure vessels a comprehensive quality control is mandatory. Especially welding lines have to be inspected complying to highest international quality standards. A failure can lead to severe consequences and liability charges for manufacturers. Modern Digital Radiography helps to achieve the quality control and archiving requirements while providing cost reduction through a high degree of automation. The past approach was a highly manual and time consuming analogue approach using X-ray film. This article explains the basic concept of digital X-ray technology and discusses several integration concepts. To support the justification process, a comprehensive techno-commercial analysis based on inspection quality, throughput and return of invest is provided. To ensure relevance a broad variety of examples, case studies and inspection standards is referenced.

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X-ray inspection ، Digital Radiography ، non-destructive testing ، pipe inspection ، weld inspection ، NDT ، DR ، quality control