Inspection Tech Ltd

Inspection Tech is a leading British manufacturer of NDT equipment for the aerospace, automotive, oil and gas sectors. This range of applications also extends to forensic NDT and the rapid AI-assisted detection, characterisation and visual recording of time-sensitive evidence in-situ. Products are also deployed in the food and pharmaceutical industries for high-volume, high-speed automatic detection of foreign bodies/contaminants.

All of Inspection Tech’s products are designed and built in the UK.

The company's in-house expertise includes electronic design, mechanical design, development of software and firmware, embedded processing, product prototyping and manufacturing. It specialises in turning concepts into products. Inspection Tech also undertakes commissioned research to provide bespoke solutions for customers’ specific NDT needs.

Proprietary AI and machine vision expertise are a significant part of the product portfolio and highlights include:

• The AI-assisted FPI ML-3000™ system: this patented BINDT Nemet award-winning automatic fluorescent particle inspection (FPI) machine vision system is the first of its kind in the world to extract low-level fluorescent signals from strong background light. This requires no darkroom, can inspect parts at speeds up to 100 times more quickly than a human inspector and has recently completed a two-year Gauge R&R trial with a large USA aerospace castings company. Not only does this system extract signals from background light, it accurately sizes indications to tolerances of less than 5 thousandths of an inch (125 microns) and keeps a permanent record of all inspections (pass or fail) for 100 percent QA audit.
• The UVee™ range of hand-held inspection lamps: fully Rolls-Royce, Airbus and ASTM 30202 compliant and microprocessor-controlled to ensure absolute constancy of output over an unrivalled 18 hours of battery life.
• The Lensed Inspection Tech's overhead Strip Light™: with the lowest form-factor, weight and largest, most uniform illumination area compared to other models available on the market, providing unequalled performance and cost-effective illumination solutions for wash stations and other inline inspection applications.  
• ML-Lite™ machine vision incorporated into an overhead stationary light source: a single unit that combines a lightweight, low form-factor stationary overhead UV illumination source with sophisticated machine vison capabilities that automatically detects and sizes fluorescent indications. All inspections (pass or fail) get permanently recorded for 100 per cent QA and compliance purposes in an automatically generated pictorial database report in just seconds.
• TAM-CAM®: fully portable automatic tam panel calibration and degradation indication measurement, imaging and reporting.
• A unique solution for CUI mitigation: the iCON™ Intelligent Condition Monitoring System is a 24/7 CUI detection and monitoring system, based on electrical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), which does not require the removal of insulation and can locate the presence of corrosion and water ingress to an accuracy of centimetres.
• Bespoke intelligent device driving platforms: capable of interfacing with and driving existing third-party devices such as UT, PEC and flow meters etc, with full MODBUS and HART® compatibility. Moreover, Inspection Tech also supplies its own 866 MHz/2.4 GHz wireless mesh networking protocols that do not require expensive WirelessHART® licence fees. The company also offers a secure, instantly accessible cloud-based data repository on the Microsoft Azure platform (as used by banks and blue-chip internationals).