This view was expressed in the November 2004 issue of Quality Magazine by Kirk Thams, vice president of operations at XRI Testing, a division of X-Ray Industries Inc., (Troy, MI). "We haven't done a good job of being out there and explaining what the different methods are, and how they can assist the different manufacturing processes," he says.
But with increased manufacturing technologies and the demands for uniform quality exerted by such initiatives as just-in-time, lean manufacturing, and ISO 9000, more and more companies are seeing the need for NDT inspection and quality certification by independent services.