Today’s industrial field robotic inspection systems at sites such as energy facilities, maritime facilities and ports, and infrastructure asset locations save lives by moving workers from harm’s way and preventing catastrophic accidents.
Utilizing data from robotic inspection systems, NDE 4.0 increases the lifesaving capability of these inspections by moving human workers from harm’s way
and by enabling more accurate insights into the structures (aka assets) at these facilities and locations.
NDE 4.0 enables the extrapolation of knowledge concerning the asset’s operational and functional viability, future operational requirements and needs, as well as estimated future performance and efficacy. From underwater remote inspections of structures used for offshore oil exploration and drilling to ground-based robots crawling up the walls of above-ground storage tanks and boilers, to drones flying around flare stacks, there is no shortage of either different types of assets or modalities of robotic inspection systems in service, all of which can benefit from the knowledge NDE 4.0 helps create.
While industrial inspections are necessary and critical, they can be very dangerous and very expensive. Inspection robotics and automation help organizations improve safety and reduce costs. The value creation NDE 4.0 enables is so compelling, and for it to be as effective as possible requires so much data, that it is a foregone conclusion that the data gathering industrial inspection robotics market will grow exponentially to feed data to NDE 4.0.
Learn more in the chapter “Robotic NDE for Industrial Field Inspections” in the Handbook of Nondestructive Evaluation 4.0 pp 641-661| (Springer, 2022) https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-030-73206-6_17
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