Abstract
In the Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) industry, the mayor trends are from film and stand alone applications to digital and inline inspection. Furthermore the quality requirements are growing driven by pushing design and material limits. Especially for field applications based on security reasons as well as image quality, replacement of isotopes can be monitored. With the move to digital the need for small focal spots at increased power requirements brought new challenges to the x-ray supplier. With the move to inline inspection systems, requirements for high uptime, fast throughput at the best possible resolution became the key challenges for the x-ray industry. The target to replace isotopes brings high challenges for weight size and energy. The innovation program of COMET delivers solutions for those challenges. Comparison between 600 Kilovolts (kV) and conventional 450kV x-ray sources will show the advantages in penetration and resolution and with this in defect recognition. The resolution gain with adaptive focal spots compared to standard focal spots will be presented and the advantages of maintenance reduced high voltage cables will be shown.
Highlights
As in all industries in Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) the major trends are the business drivers
In the past if the penetration capability of standard x-ray sources was not good enough the customer had do go for linear accelerators starting from 2 Mega electron volts (MeV) or powerful isotopes
Combined with digital detectors e.g. computed radiography (CR), digital radiography (DR), high frequency portable sources are the ideal solution for the future
Summary
As in all industries in NDT the major trends are the business drivers. The biggest challenges for companies are to find them, adapt them to their target markets and set the right targets for their R&D departments [1]. The idea was to look at your market from the different point of views mentioned above and try to look for developments, trends and hints to find mega trends which can be applied on the different NDT markets. They do not really look astonishing; most people will say they are obvious the big question is how can we adopt these megatrends to the industrial x-ray markets? COMMUNICATION: More and more applications are moving from a stand alone testing (after production is finished) to a process integrated or process inline testing With this the requirement for reliability, availability and performance in respect of throughput is increasing. Challenge for x-ray manufacturer: provide x-ray sources with smallest possible focal spot at highest possible power
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