Vidisco NDT DR Systems

During the manufacturing and post-manufacturing process, companies in the automotive industry perform many routine full X-ray inspections of individual components, for quality assurance purposes. Using a Vidisco X-ray system makes this process far more simple and cost-effective, allowing you to ensure the highest quality automotive components, with ease.

Vidisco’s DR X-ray systems allow you to inspect external, internal and concealed features of every component. You can also inspect castings and fabrications from any materials, such as alloys, steels, ceramics, composites, plastics, or synthetic rubber. All inspections can be performed on-the-spot, with high resolution results available directly from your laptop. With one of our systems, you can detect welding defects, porosity, missing, cracked, or broken parts, misalignment or orientation issues, presence or absence of specific features, inclusions, foreign objects detection, and non-uniformity.

Aviation inspections often require capturing large numbers of high quality images, to meet constantly evolving detection regulations and standards. With Vidisco’s digital radiography systems, you benefit from superior, high resolution imagery, with significant time and money savings. These systems are a well-known choice for engineering, QC, and maintenance departments, for inspecting blades, composite materials, and more.

With digital storage capabilities, our systems reduce environmental impact and allow you to share or recover images quickly and easily. Thanks to the unmatched sensitivity performance of the DDA, you can detect even the tiniest hairline cracks, while also minimizing the required radiation levels and exposure time, ensuring safety and security from every angle.

In the oil and gas industry, digital radiography allows for the highly efficient, precise inspection of pressure vessels, such as pipes, boilers and valves. When it comes to meeting regulations, such as ASME and API, Vidisco’s cutting-edge portal digital X-ray systems are up for the challenge.

Used widely across both upstream (oil and gas wells) and downstream sectors, our systems can reveal not only corrosion and erosion, but also the exact measurements of pipe wall thickness and weld quality, while dramatically reducing radiation exposure time when compared to other solutions. With a Vidisco system, you benefit from on-site, immediate, and accurate results, ensuring safety and eliminating the need to speculate or repeat tests.

Whatever the industry, manufacturing facilities always require detailed inspection to discover defects under the surface. With a Vidisco portable system, these inspections become quick and easy.

Whether it’s for aluminum castings in the automotive industry, or steel turbine blades for aerospace, or even injection-molded plastic parts, our systems can meet your detection requirements. Throughout the manufacturing process, from engineering through to production and QC, Vidisco’s portable DR systems allow for on-the-spot and cost-effective identification of many defects, including shrinkage cavities, cracks, gas, and inclusions.

Top manufacturers and maintenance facilities choose Vidisco systems for QC on ship hull welds, pipe welds, and installations. These systems can detect typical welding defects, such as porosity, lack of fusion, cracks, lack of penetration, slag lines, and more.

Vidisco systems are fast, easy-to-use, durable, and extremely cost-efficient. Due to their highly portable and durable nature, they are well-suited to the challenges of a shipyard environment. Performing high quality inspections is of utmost important in the shipyard industry, especially when it comes to inspecting welding. The long individual strips of welding on ships are tedious to inspect, requiring a high volume of images. However, the digital radiography provided by our systems cut the process down significantly, for huge time savings. There’s no need to scan or develop images, as all digital images are available immediately on your laptop screen. Vidisco systems provide high accuracy, on-the-spot inspections with minimal post-inspection procedures required, allowing the shipyard to make well-informed ‘go-no-go’ decisions in a short amount of time.

A product failure in the railway industry can be expensive and damaging to the manufacturer’s reputation. For a cost-effective, accurate solution, Vidisco X-ray systems are an invaluable tool that allow manufacturers to engineer higher quality products, with tighter tolerances.

Our systems can be used to inspect your products when production begins, and are especially useful during the qualification process, to ensure all aspects of internal and external features meet the original design specifications. They are also highly valuable for the process development phase, allowing your casting engineers to evaluate the effects of any changes to the casting molds and processes. Vidisco’s DR-X-ray systems are suitable for all of your inspection needs, giving you an accurate analysis of many components, including castings, plastics, cast wheels, engine components, tires, airbags, fuel injectors, and brake components. Maintenance doesn’t have to be difficult. With a Vidisco system, you can quickly and easily maintain a safe, reliable and profitable rail network, with decreased downtime. On-the-spot access to real-time information about your rail assets is a critical part of a predictive maintenance decision support environment.

Highly durable Vidisco X-ray systems are well-suited to the challenging needs of power generation and electricity industries. Whether it’s a nuclear power plant, wind turbines, or any other type of power generation facility, our systems have unique and proven abilities for detecting damages in power lines, QC, installation, and maintenance, for voids, sleeve alignments, clamps, soldering, core cracks, and more.

Vidisco systems are lightweight and fully portable, with wireless capabilities, reaching the necessary heights for any location. High quality, accurate digital radiography allows you to benefit from immediate results, straight from your laptop screen, for on-the-spot verification of component integrity, and detection of crucial defects, such as sleeve conductor failures.

Military applications require the highest quality imaging, with a zero tolerance for failure. Vidisco’s digital X-ray methods meet these needs, allowing you to inspect all types of military equipment, from large rocket motors to handheld firearm ammunition.

Vidisco’s DR X-ray systems are commonly used for inspecting mission-critical components, where lives depend on their integrity. Whether it’s for product development of quality control, when you use our systems, you can be secure in the knowledge that every component you inspect meets the high standards you require. Vidisco systems can be used for a wide variety of different military applications, from product quality assurance, assembly verification, and geometric measurement, through to identifying foreign materials, missing components, and the fill level of explosives. Our systems are also suitable for use with many kinds of ammunition, including small arms, fuses, detonators, bullets, and grenades. There are four main areas that munitions X-ray inspections are used for – quality control during production (QC), maintenance during the product’s lifetime, inspection of unexploded ordinances for dismantling (UXO), and reverse engineering. Imaging quality and accuracy are critical in these areas, with the discovery of defects often being the difference between life and death. With a Vidisco X-ray system, these defects can be accurately and rapidly detected, saving lives.

When you’re embarking on a project such as coring or drilling, you’ll need to carry out accurate infrastructure inspections. Vidisco’s portable X-ray systems allow you to perform detailed concrete inspections, for locating rebars, cables, conduits, and pipes, in even the most hardest-to-reach places. Whether it’s a tall building, a bridge, or anywhere else, the outstanding penetration capabilities of our systems will ensure you get a clear picture, on-site and in real-time.

Deep penetration allows for a dramatic reduction in exposure time, using weaker radiation sources, such as a battery-operated pulsed X-ray. Vidisco systems are also suitable for operation at high energy levels, including industrial X-ray sources and isotopes (IR-192, CO-60), making them a flexible solution for any application. There’s no need to wait for results, as our systems provide high quality images straight to your laptop screen at the time of the inspection, for an on-the-spot analysis with superior accuracy.

In the pharmaceutical industry, quality control is of critical importance. You need to ensure every single pill or capsule produced contains the right quantity of ingredients, with very little tolerance for mismeasurement.

With Vidisco DR systems, you can benefit from on-the-spot, detailed, and accurate X-ray inspections of every item you produce. For example, you can use our systems to measure fill level, identify missing components, or even identify specific partial ingredients in an individual pill, capsule, or medicine bottle. Our systems allows you to determine the distribution of ingredients in individual items, segmenting components by density or size. When it comes to inspecting finished products, our systems can be used to identify any contamination from metal, glass, or other foreign objects. All images are sent straight to your laptop in real-time, so that you can take immediate action when a defective product is identified.