Non-destructive Testing (NDT)

To ensure quality and compliance to specifications, drawings, and models, each manufactured component is subject to various forms of non-destructive testing, included but not limited to:

• Optical Inspection Techniques
• CMM (co-ordinate measuring machine)
• Airflow data collection
• Water flow testing
• Surface analysis
• Fluorescent Penetrant Inspection (FPI) for surfaces
• X-ray

Hi-Tek maintains two full time Level III FPI inspectors.

Photographs above show machined ring with fluorescent die coating (left) with an FPI indication revealed under black light analysis (photo right).