Non-destructive testing - Current capabilities and future directions

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The oil and gas industry is among the high risks industries. Thus, ensuring safety must be prioritized by business owners. Ensuring pipeline integrity is very crucial. In fact, experts highly emphasized that so as to avoid hampering their operations as well as to guarantee long-term profitability, companies within this industry must ensure the integrity of the pipelines by investing in a wide variety of services. Be very aware that when flaws and other issues related to pipelines are left unchecked and untreated, operations might be stopped. Also, the company may experience different hassles and costly expenses.

Nondestructive testing (NDT) is a wide group of analysis techniques used in science and industry to evaluate the properties of a material, component, or system without causing damage. NDT technologies have a crucial role in various industrial applications in the aerospace, automotive, manufacturing, petrochemical, transportation, civil, marine, and defense industries. There are currently hundreds of NDT methods being investigated or applied in the science and technique fields, which can be categorized as optical, acoustic, electromagnetic, infrared/thermal, or radiography NDT. Transient electromagnetic-thermal NDT techniques with a lot of advantages, such as high speed, great depth, high sensitivity, width spectrum, low cost, and easy quantification, are widely investigated in various industrial fields.

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The increasing automation and complexity of NDT services decline in the supply of skilled professionals, and an increase in the number of stringent government regulations has driven various companies to outsource their NDT operations to different third-party service providers. The operators and owners are increasingly contracting with third-party providers as they have the necessary engineering expertise and technical workforce to cater to the varying necessity of their customers.

The global NDT services market is segmented on the basis of testing technique, type, vertical. On the basis of testing technique, the market is segmented as visual inspection, magnetic particle, liquid penetrant, eddy current, ultrasonic, radiographic, acoustic emission, terahertz imaging. On the basis of type, the market is segmented as inspection services, equipment rental services, training services, calibration services. On the basis of vertical, the market is segmented as manufacturing, oil & gas, aerospace, government infrastructure & public safety, automotive, power generation, others.

Some of The Top Industry Players of NDT Services Market :

· Ashtead Technology

·General Electric

·Intertek

· Mistras Group

·Nikon Metrology

·Olympus

·Team Industrial Services

·TUV Rheinland

·Yxlon international GMBH

·Zetec