A major inspection challenge facing the boiler industries is to examine welds in tubing and plate during the manufacturing, erection, and start-up stages. In the steam generation business, billions are lost annually due to downtime caused by leaks in a plant’s boiler tubes that is in commercial operation. In addition, the problems that are often incurred by OEM’s during the manufacturing and erection of the boiler often creates delays in the project, cost over-runs, and customer/OEM frustration.

X-ray inspection systems can reduce this problem and assist the OEM in meeting customer goals. VJ Inspection Systems has designed, built and supplied custom inspection systems for a wide variety of boiler system applications.