Range of Services for Quality Assurance
You are engaged in the manufacturing of parts and components, in joints, in the use of new materials or in the quality of manufacturing processes? Then you know the difficulties with supplier products and materials or problems concerning the adjustment of production processes and the quality assessment in current productions. You have to investigate process malfunctions, ensure their avoidance or find rapid solutions to complaints? Also, the development of service and maintenance concepts for your products is one of your duties?
To meet these challenges Fraunhofer Institute for Nondestructive Testing IZFP may support you with its services! Basing on over forty years of industrial experience in the development and application of nondestructive testing (NDT) methods, we offer our expertise in materials characterization, component and assembly testing and damage analysis
While the institute‘s classical inspection services comprise all NDT procedures and methods, we support you in the selection of inspection methods, integrate them in your production processes and train your employees in new activities. Due to our flexible accreditation we are able to transfer our newly developed methods without delay into the customer‘s production.
Potential for application
For all industries (automotive, aerospace, railway, metal production and processing, energy, etc.)
- Application of nondestructive testing methods along the valueadded chain
- Materials characterization
- Production-integrated testing
- Component and assembly inspection
- NDT for life-time monitoring
Methods
- Classical nondestructive testing methods (ultrasound, magnetic particle, penetrant testing, eddy current, X-ray)
- Novel methods (inductively induced thermography, X-ray CT, micro CT, computed laminography)
- NDT reference methods (materialography, Vickers)
Benefits
- Process integration, optimization, and control
- Condition statements concerning material properties, integrity of joint connections, ageing and wear of components and assemblies
- Determination of quality characteristics for life-time assessments
Procedural services
- Verification of inspection procedures and methods
- Qualification of device systems for customer-specific inspection tasks
- Development of briefings for procedures and methods
- Qualification of inspection procedures and methods in safety-related industrial applications by external appraisers
- Instructions and advanced training for inspection personnel