Inside Non-destructive testing
Non-destructive testing
Plans, runs and signs non-destructive testing (NDT), on site and in the office.
For NDT labs and workshops that test in-house.
What changes
Readings are written on paper and retyped days later.
The inspector fills it in on site and the report is ready to sign.
How it works
- 1
Plan the examination
- 2
Capture it in the field
- 3
Evaluate against the acceptance criteria
- 4
Issue the report
What's included
- Twelve methods
- Offline field capture
- Inspector qualifications
- Instrument validity
- Indications and disposition
- Public verification
Part of Non-destructive testing
Details
The steps, explained
- Plan the examination. What has to be examined, by which method and to what extent, derived from the code and the ITP rather than decided per shift.
- Capture it in the field. A tablet that works offline in a yard with no signal, and syncs when it finds one. The inspector records what they see, where they see it.
- Evaluate against the acceptance criteria. The criteria come from the governing standard and edition, attached to the examination — not chosen afterwards to fit the finding.
- Issue the report. Sealed, verifiable by a third party, and immutable. A correction produces a superseding revision; the original stays readable.
All the features
- Twelve methods. VT, PT, MT, RT, UT, PAUT, TOFD, ET, LT, PMI, hardness and ferrite.
- Offline field capture. Built for a site with no coverage, not for a demo on office wifi.
- Inspector qualifications. Method, level and expiry, checked at the point of signing rather than at the audit.
- Instrument validity. An examination cannot be recorded on an instrument whose calibration has lapsed.
- Indications and disposition. What was found, where, how big, and what was decided about it.
- Public verification. A QR on the report resolves to a page that confirms it is genuine and current.
In depth
The report is a record, not a template
A great deal of NDT reporting is done by opening last job’s file and editing it. It is fast, and it carries last job’s mistakes forward — the wrong procedure revision, the wrong acceptance criteria, occasionally the wrong client.
An examination record built from the plan cannot inherit those, because it never had them. The procedure, its revision, the acceptance criteria, the inspector’s certificate and the instrument’s calibration are all bound to the examination at the moment it is performed.
The report is a rendering of that record, not a document that exists independently of it.
This is also what an ISO 17025 assessment actually looks at. Not the report — how the report came to say what it says.
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