Trueflaw webinar - Smart NDE

The #AI for #NDE webinar series continues! Join us next week, 2022-09-01 16:00 EEST, to hear Iikka Virkkunen present on smart NDE. Read the intro below and register!

AI has proven a valuable tool to aid in NDE data analysis. In the first instance, the AI models were used to find flaws from the vast data provided by modern NDE techniques. This is still the biggest application, but now we are starting to see a more comprehensive pattern emerge. The solutions no longer use just one model to do one thing. Instead, most of the current systems make use of several specialized AI models that together make sense of the data. One model might detect various areas of interest, and another then focus on some of these areas for specific flaw types. One model might pinpoint the flaw locations and then hand these over to another model that proceeds to run more detailed evaluation on the surrounding data to further characterize and quantify the findings. A model might detect component surfaces to form basis for measurement and another find flaw indications. These combine to provide an informative view for the inspector that provides meaningful quantitative information for evaluated. 

While for now, these are mostly isolated cases, they are starting to connect. As they do, what emerges is a new, smarter NDE, where the data is automatically parsed by range of collaborative models to provide a rich interpretation for the inspector, complete with measurements of interesting features and wealth of additional data to be presented as needed. The NDE gets "smart" in the sense that it can operate on a higher level of abstraction – identify components, surfaces, indications and geometric features instead of amplitudes and a-scans. This then allows things like more meaningful comparison to previous inspection of the same component. 

This webinar looks behind the curtain and talks about the trends we see and where AI for NDE is headed.