NDT Solutions Ltd - UK (SME Partner)

www.ndtsolutions.com

NDT Solutions was established over 10 years ago, and is now viewed by industry as world leaders in the supply of ultrasonic phased array inspection systems. Its core business includes a proactive view of product and knowledge development. NDT Solutions employ cutting edge research, innovative system design and novel Digital Signal Processing techniques to deliver high quality automated inspection solutions that represents the current state of the art UT phased array technology as well as leading and powerful research instrumentation. The unique programmable ultrasonic platform developed by NDT Solutions provides a robust base for their formidable product range. The company also tailors phased array system solutions for specific client driven applications.

NDT Solutions acts as consultants for a number of collaborative projects supporting the development of new inspection systems for non-destructive testing. In BONDSHIP, a €4.6 M project funded by the European Commission, NDT Solutions are investigating novel inspection methods for testing marine structures. The research engineers at NDT Solutions have published many papers and recently presented with the Technical Achievement Award, industrial accolade, for the Development and Deployment of an Ultrasonic Non-destructive Quality Inspection System for Adhesively Bonded Metal Joints.

Reasons for participating
This project will further strengthen NDT Solution's position in the NDE inspection market. In particular, NDT Solutions is looking to increase its market share by offering the ReNEWiT developed phased array system to areas such as the USA, SE Asia and the burgeoning markets in Northern Europe that have significant wind turbine interests.

Role in the project
WP-E Manager: PSC: The company will develop and manufacture the NDE phased array prototype system and Dr Neil Hankinson will be part of the exploitation team.

 PARTNERS
ReNEWIT is a collaboration between the following organisations: TWI Ltd, NDT Solutions Ltd, LOT Oriel GmbH, Laser Optical Engineering (LOE) Ltd, InnospeXion ApS, Fairwind, Hexcel, Vestas, Miltech, Technical University Sofia (TUS), Zenon. The project is co-ordinated and managed by TWI Ltd and is partly funded by the EC under the CRAFT programme ref: COOP-CT-2003-508600.