Constrained sites, 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 started on this kind of site (NDT Level 2 UT and eddy current, 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 scan (PAUT / TFM in a PoC).
What changes for the site
- Less human time in the constrained volume.
- The same path on the next outage — traceable, auditable.
- No lock-in to one robot OEM or one ultrasonic brand.
Once the cell is taught: about 30 minutes for the full contact-UT cycle, measured on the filmed part only. Not a guaranteed turnaround, and not a figure for PAUT or TFM. A Level 2 inspector still signs off acquisition and interpretation. Acquisition itself is short; preparation is the real work, and we design that too.