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In 2010, the largest offshore oil spill in marine history occurred along the Gulf of Mexico. The economic and ecological costs were devastating. Before becoming the general manager at SNI, Jeff played a critical role in developing a transducer to scan the cracked pipe that caused the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.

For a second time, the fan blade on a commercial airplane had disconnected because of a failure in the dovetail. Jim Shimp relied on his decades of experience to design and build a transducer to inspect all of the dovetails for these commercial airplanes.

With the high value of certain gemstones, they are prone to be stolen and counterfeited. By being fingerprinted, expensive gems can be identified and distinguished from fakes. Jim Barshinger took a standard transducer and turned it into an ultrasonic gem fingerprinting system.

Here at SNI, our skilled team utilizes the time-of-flight diffraction (TOFD) method to test for inclusions, cracks, or any other imperfections in the metals you need inspected. To get the best possible readings, we emphasize maximizing our transducers’ signal-to-noise ratio by increasing their sensitivity and controlling the shape of the sound waves they create. Please read more to find out the benefits that come with SNI’s controlled approach to crafting our TOFD transducers and how we compare to our competition.

Throughout the years, the world of NDT has become more complicated as the world continues to digitize. One example of this is a high-temp corrosion thickness gauge. An instrument that Bruce sold early on in his career has now evolved into an advanced product he is selling again decades later.