On October 1-4, 2023 OKOndt GROUP attended Railway Interchange 2023 - the largest North American railway event. This time the exhibition took place in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA (Indiana Convention Center) and brought together over 700 exhibitors and more than 8, 000 visitors who are the major influencers in the industry. Thank you to everyone who was with us at the RI 2023!

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15 to 22 January 2022 the OKOndt GROUP's specialists held the training for the American colleagues from the company NDT Supply.com, Inc (Kansas City, Kansas State) on how to work with the equipment they produce and supply to the USA, Canada and Latin America markets. The mentioned enterprise is the global supplier of technical means for non-destructive testing and has been representing OKOndt GROUP at the USA market for several years, as well as providing follow up technical support, routine repairing and calibration of the equipment.



A special attention during the training was paid to the operational features of SmartScan-FA — the System for eddy current testing of aircraft wheels, along with the issues of maintenance and calibration of the System.



As a result, the colleagues from NDT Supply.com, Inc learnt freely commission the unit which had been bought by one of the American leaders of aircraft building. Our partners could easily launch the System, set it, and provided the training on the System operation for their customer.

The task was successfully completed and, in addition, one more important task was set by the Customer – to assure testing of the aircraft wheels new models. The issue was happily resolved within a 35-day term.

On the top of that, the training and the demo of the features of the manual eddy current flaw detectors Eddycon C and Eddycоn CL have been carried out, as well as the functions of the special-purpose sets have been demonstrated: the aircraft set based on these devices, and the set for the welded joints testing.

The eddy current testing set including ECPs, other parts and the flaw detectors Eddycon C and Eddycоn CL is designed for testing of the aircraft parts and units during production, repairing and technical servicing and allows to provide the eddy current testing of the aircraft in accordance with the major aircraft manufacturers’ requirements and regulatory documents. The set for the welded joints testing is designed to detect surface cracks in the welded joints and heat treated zones, as well as for the paint coating thickness evaluation before testing.

To sum up the meeting of the OKOndt GROUP representatives with the managers of the NDT Supply.com, Inc company the mutual interest in further cooperation and promotion of the OKOndt GROUP’s new products at the USA market was confirmed.