PowerPoint presentations as presented at the NDTMA 2005 Annual Conference may be downloaded at the bottom of this page. PLEASE NOTE: SOME FILES ARE LARGE AND MAY TAKE A LONG TIME TO DOWNLOAD. The file sizes are as indicated. This page will be updated as the various presentations become available for download
BUSINESS PLANNING
“Maximize Your Personal Potential”
Amy Schaden
Management Impact, Inc.
In order to maximize your potential, you must continually focus on improving yourself and your own skills and competencies. Personally, you must understand your strengths and weaknesses and continue to use them to your advantage everyday. Just because you have “made it” to a leadership position, doesn’t mean that your learning has peaked or ended. Just the opposite – it’s only just begun.
If you develop a passion for learning, you will never cease to grow. One of the keys to a fulfilling life is having the courage to be a lifelong learner. The more you learn, and the more you pass that learning on to others, the greater your chances for a prosperous and satisfying career.
Maximizing Personal Potential is a customized approach to leadership development. It takes information from your organization’s needs assessment and designs specific training courses to challenge those in need within your organization.
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“Reducing Risk and Limiting Exposure in the Business Computer Environment”
Albert Fadool
X-Ray Industries, Inc.
This talk will discuss the various measures that should be taken to assure your computer system is secure from viruses and outside attack through the internet. Security policies and procedures you can live with, instructions on how to develop a written plan, and the necessary items to cover in the plan to protect your company computer system will be covered. Both desktop and laptop security will be included. Steps to ensure your computers are virus and spyware free, as well as where to go to get free tools to keep them clean will be discussed. The speaker will show how these tools ensure a trouble free environment. An overview will be provided on why everyone in your company with access to the internet should be knowledgeable about the security measures. Finally, you will hear about a day in the life of a firewall.
“Managing NDT Product Development”
George W. Rhodes
Avistar, Inc.
Developing products on budget and schedule, requires discipline, planning and critical resources. The process includes: a requirements definition, more than one technical approach, an intellectual property background search, a preliminary market analysis and proper experimental design with success criteria. Skipping any of these steps will usually lead to a costly failure. The skills needed to develop products are usually not identical with those required to run and expand a traditional NDT business, and the staff temperaments are radically different. The process will be discussed including examples of success and failure.
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“Leasing – A Cost Effective Tool for Increased Sales and An Improved Bottom Line”
J. Len Sperl
Vision Financial Group
Many vendors as well as end-users fail to realize the benefits of leasing and how it can improve the bottom line of their respective organizations. The ability of vendors to offer quick, convenient, efficient and competitive financing for their products provides a total solution for their customers. The end-user will see how leasing can provide an alternative that may enable them to acquire much needed equipment, preserve lines of credit, better match cash flows and improve their bottom line. In today’s world, CASH IS KING. This presentation will provide vendors a look at the benefits of using leasing as a tool and how easy it is to embed a program within their sales presentation. For the end-user, we will discuss the benefits of using the alternative of leasing to make the correct decision for their particular situation. In both cases, vendor and end-user, the benefits will be clearly identified and through the proper use of leasing, each should see an improved bottom line.
NDT MANAGEMENT SESSION I
“Introduction to the NDTMA Management Training Program”
Jim Treat
Chuck Hellier
The session is intended as an introduction to a three module, three-year management training program developed by Chuck Hellier and Jim Treat under the auspices of NDTMA.
The management training program is designed to present relevant management topics to personnel who are currently in management positions and for those who aspire to become managers and leaders. While it will address effective management approaches for the NDT industry, it applies to other technical disciplines as well.
The program will begin with a half-day introductory session in 2005, followed by three full-day sessions, each in conjunction with an annual NDTMA conference starting in 2006 and concluding in 2008. As currently envisioned, the three-year cycle will be repeated starting in 2009. The introductory seminar in 2005 will be open to all annual conference attendees. Attendance at subsequent modules will be by registration on a fee basis. A certificate of attendance will be presented to individuals who attend each one-day seminar. For those individuals attending the three full-day sessions and successfully completing the assigned program exercises in all three modules, a Certificate of Completion of the NDTMA Management Training Program will be awarded.
NDT MANAGEMENT SESSION II
“The Business Case for Reliability”
John Schultz
Allied Services Group
“It’s OK to get Excited about Maintenance” is the introduction we use for every presentation we give related to maintenance, reliability, and asset management. The reason for this is the overwhelming business case associated with doing maintenance and reliability right. Asset Management initiatives have been documented to have Returns on Investment (ROI) ranging from 4:1 to 50:1. In fact, many organizations have found that a Total Equipment Asset Management (TEAM) initiative has proven to be the best investment that they have ever made in their facility. In this paper, we will discuss and explore the “Business Case for Reliability” from several different angles:
What is ROI?
What are the elements of successful TEAM initiative?
What are the typical costs associated with each element?
Where are these costs offset with savings?
What areas can expect to see the most significant savings?
What types of savings are likely in each area?
What is the “typical” Rate of Return (ROR)?
What elements control ROR?
Where do you start?
Readers will gain a fundamental understanding of why a Reliability initiative makes financial sense for their business, what elements are essential for their success, what they can control, and how to start. If a plant already has a reliability initiative in place, but the results are not meeting expectations, calculating the business case may provide insight into why results are not being achieved.
“Industry Issues with Property and Casualty Insurance”
Mark Tedford
Tedford Insurance
Many industries have problems that are specific to that industry. The Non-Destructive industry is no different. It is an industry that has unique insurance problems. Understanding these issues is key to properly managing the risk your company faces and the costs of insurance premiums. I will identify these problems in Workers’ Compensation, General Liability, and Commercial Auto insurance and discuss other common risk management concepts so that the risk manager will understand what risks his company faces and be able to manage his or her insurance premiums.
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“Managing NDT Opportunities for Inspection of Composite Materials”
John Register
R-Con NDT Consultants
What are advanced composites and what are the market opportunities in the advanced composite area? The talk will answer these questions and look at market trends and opportunities. NDT methods to inspect composites will be discussed, along with equipment and training which is currently available. An estimate of the costs to get involved in the inspection of composites will be provided.
REGULATORY SESSION
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“USNRC Regulatory Update on Radiography and Security Issues”
Charles Cox
USNRC
The presentation will cover the following areas:
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An overview of Title 10 CFR part 34
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The Petition on Associated Equipment
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Significant enforcement Actions
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The NMED Reporting System
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”Military Specifications – How and Why They Have Evolved”
Jim Noonan
General Dynamics - Electric Boat
Between 1899 and 1963, submarine construction was conducted in much the same manner as all other vessels were constructed. Schedules were the driving force, material specifications were deficient and nondestructive testing was inadequate. Documentation of many processes was unavailable. The presentation will cover military shipbuilding specification, and will explain how and why they have evolved.
“NADCAP – What is it Anyway?”
Phillip Keown & Mark Aubele
GE
The Mission of the National Aerospace and Defense Contractors Accreditation Program (NADCAP) is to provide international, unbiased, independent manufacturing process and product assessments and certification services for the purpose of adding value, reducing total cost, and facilitating relationships between primes and suppliers. The presentation will provide a NADCAP overview, explain the organizational structure of NADCAP, and will detail the NADCAP process.
TECHNICAL SESSION
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“Application of Time of Flight Diffraction (TODF) for Weld Inspection”
Michael Moles
R/D Tech
The presentation will briefly cover the history of Time-of-Flight Diffraction (TOFD). The advantages and limitations of TODF will be explored, and typical images shown. A means to determine defect depth will be presented. Codes and standards governing TODF will be covered, and some TODF examples will be presented. There will be ample time for questions and answers.
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“New Infrared System Design and Applications”
Gary Strahan
Texas Infrared
Recent developments in and advances in uncooled infrared technology are broadening the use of infrared systems in all industry. Permanently fixed mounted wireless systems are being used to look at Flare Systems, Critical Vessels, Tank Levels, Furnaces, Boilers, Electrical Substations, Prisons, Military facilities, Harbors, Building, and Rotating Equipment.
Uncooled systems for use in inspection of furnace tubes are only now commercially available. High-resolution sterling cooled infrared cameras are being developed to see SF6gas and hydrocarbon gas leaks. In the near future, these gas-imaging cameras will be able to quantify such leaks.
A new Ultraviolet imaging system has been developed for inspection of high voltage equipment and video footage will be shown at this presentation.
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“Use of Automated Ultrasonic Testing (AUT) on Large Structures”
Hugh Howerton
RTI Energy Systems, Inc.
This presentation will show several uses of automated UT systems on welds in ferritic and on ferritic materials. The types of equipment will vary with the type of weld material, indications to be detected and the size of the part.
The systems that will be presented are Time of Flight Diffraction (TOFD), automated raster scanning on ferritic pipe, phased array line scanning on austenitic welds and automated line scans on austenitic welds. Examples of scans techniques and photographs will be presented detailing the application of the equipment on various structures.
Depending on the use of the equipment, attention to detail, use of experienced personnel and adequate spare parts, the automated UT system can be used to locate and evaluate indications. These systems provide instant results of the quality of the welds and also provide a record that may be viewed at a later date for further evaluation or used to compare pre-service results with periodic inspections during the life of the structure.
