What is AUT? Automated Ultrasonic Testing (AUT) is the automated robotic deployment of conventional or advanced Ultrasonics that produces consistently encoded data. There are many applications for AUT and benefits of using AUT over Manual Ultrasonic Testing.
Benefits:
Advantages of Automated Ultrasonic Testing over Manual UT
Consistent incremented data
Permanently recorded data
Post collection analysis
Capable of calibration verification
AUT can support Fitness for Service
Determine overall condition of equipment to establish required level of assessment
Provide exact data required for engineering calculations
How it works:
Appropriate AUT technique for specific application is selected.
Automated robotic deployment of UT probes and couplant.
Key system components are: scanner robot, scanner motor controller, portable Ultrasonic data acquisition electronics, umbilical cable (up to 250') that connects the scanner to the electronics.
Ultrasonic scan data is systematically electronically stored.
Temperatures up to 750°F.
Capable production coverage per shift 200 to 800 square feet.