Milieu contraignant, in engineering terms
Many of the welds and assets that matter sit in nuclear islands, energy piping, tanks and cells where time-on-task is limited. Manual NDT there is possible — it is expensive, slow to document, and hard to repeat after an outage.
ROBINSPECT comes from that shop floor (NDT Level 2 UT & ET, nuclear and aerospace). The product is not “a robot in a cage”. It is inspection engineering for constrained sites: access, coupling, trajectory, then a replayable UT / PAUT / TFM scan.
What changes for the site
- Less human time in the constrained volume.
- The same path next outage — traceable, auditable.
- No lock-in to one robot OEM or one ultrasonic brand.
A full cycle on a typical part is on the order of 30 minutes once the cell is taught, without a roboticist standing there. Acquisition itself is short; preparation is the real work, and we design that too.