Ultrasonic testing uses beams of high-frequency sound waves to detect flaws, measure thickness and evaluate material properties. When used to inspect aerospace structures, ultrasonic testing plays an important role in safety, quality assurance and cost. Its flaw-resolving capabilities can be the difference between life and death.
ROCHESTER, NY-Eastman Kodak Company (Rochester, NY) has named Willick Engineering (Santa Fe Springs, CA) an authorized dealer for Kodak Industrex Digital Systems for industrial radiography in the U.S..
With a fleet of more than 500 aircraft that need to be kept airworthy, Delta Air Lines’ technical operations center is a key part of the airline’s activities, providing a comprehensive maintenance service to Delta, as well as to other airlines. To ensure spare parts are available when needed, it uses ICEM Surf software from ICEM (Southampton, United Kingdom) in the reverse engineering of parts for in-house manufacture.
McBain Instruments, a supplier of research, inspection and laboratory microscopy systems and custom engineered optical instruments, celebrates its 40th anniversary.