Welcome to this first nondestructive test (NDT) supplement to Quality magazine. It has been a long time in the planning. During my first tenure at Quality magazine, I attended numerous trade shows and conferences where NDT was the focus. It seemed at that time the technology, at least from the perspective of who would be the target user, was in transition. There was talk that many NDT equipment suppliers needed to shift attention toward mainstream industrial applications, away from high-cost, custom and one-of-a-kind systems. Of course, many NDT suppliers had already long been focused on volume industries such as automotive, medical, metalworking, plastics and similar applications.