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Dan DeVries

Dan DeVries is a senior marketing consultant with Wild Horse Strategies.
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Digital transformation

Digital Transformation and IoT comes to Eddy Current Testing

Managers can now capitalize on the data and be more responsive to production issues as they arise.
Dan DeVries
April 2, 2018
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Digital transformation is a competitive technology and business strategy that leverages data gathering to drive business efficiencies, new revenue growth, and new business models.


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Figure 1. Cutaway view of a piston. Source: Criterion NDT

Perfecting Your Manufacturing Eddy Current Test

How to specify a proper eddy current test and develop a prototype to validate your test assumptions.
Dan DeVries
June 1, 2017
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We test our products to ensure that they ship without defects. This helps reduce our scrap and warranty costs, and above all, create and deliver products that meet our customers’ needs.


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Must Inspect with Eddy Current

A good understanding of eddy current applications, testing scenarios and best practices can go a long way toward a successful eddy current inspection.
Dan DeVries
October 1, 2016
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The words were right there in the footnotes of the engineering drawing: “Must inspect with eddy current.” Yet, there were no indications of what areas of the component were to be inspected, and there were no notes specifying what the eddy current test was supposed to do. Find cracks? Verify heat treat? Check threads?


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Basic Inductive Circuit

Demystifying Eddy Current Heat Treat Verification

It is a fast, repeatable test that integrates well into factory production lines.
Dan DeVries
February 2, 2016
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Voodoo magic, smoke and mirrors: For some, these are words that come to mind when the subject of eddy current testing for heat treat verification is mentioned. 


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Nondestructive Flaw Detection in Metallic Components

A closer look at liquid penetrant and magnetic particle inspection, ultrasonic testing and eddy current testing.
Dan DeVries
August 4, 2015
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As a quality manager, it’s your worst nightmare. One of your best customers comes for a visit and brings a box of cracked parts that came from your plant. He wants to know how it happened, and how you are going to ensure it won’t happen again.


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Software & Analysis: Hold on a Minute, My Quality System is Texting Me!

Chris Muench Dan DeVries
August 7, 2012
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Bring distributed quality intelligence data from the shop floor to your quality management system.
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Automated Eddy Current Testing Supports Growing Trend toward "In-Process" Inspection

Dan DeVries
February 1, 2012
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Compared to magnetic particle and dye penetrant inspection processes, eddy current testing systems are well suited to perform in-process inspections.


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Going Green with Eddy Current Testing

Dan DeVries Joe Jessop
July 28, 2010
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This clean technology can reduce or eliminate the need for traditional testing methodologies.
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