Remote Visual Inspection equipment has existed since an inspector could pair a mirror with a flashlight. As Tom Ward, GE, RVI senior product manager, succinctly puts it, “People are always trying to look at something that they can’t get to, and they want to make a visual assessment of it.”
Luckily for today’s inspectors, modern videoscopes can help quickly view parts and flaws that, in the past, would have required lengthy and costly production halts, power plant shut-downs and grounded airplanes.