The NDE 4.0 Handbook
N. Meyendorf1, N. Ida2, R. Singh3, J. Vrana4
1 University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, USA
2 The University of Akron, Akron, USA
3 Plus4Pi LLC, Cromwell, USA
4 Vrana GmbH, Rimsting, Germany
NDE 4.0 will significantly change the way we will operate NDE in the future. Modern manufacturing techniques producing complex individual components tailored to the needs of individual customers will require that aspects of NDE reliability and the effect of the human factor have to be reconsidered. New tools like the internet of things, big data, digital twins, and artificial intelligence for instance will give now opportunities to perform NDE in the lab, in the field and also remotely. This will also raise new question how to integrate and execute NDE in production in a cyber-physical environment and how to process, analyze and protect NDE data. This will challenge the NDE stuff.
The goal of the first “Handbook of NDE 4.0” is to document what is being done to address these issues and to anticipate the needs of the NDE community in this exciting and challenging new frontier. The Handbook will describe the new trends and techniques and will be a guide to application of NDE in modern industrial environments. This will also include NDE techniques and NDE data processing that have high potential for cyber physical controlled production and discuss these applications for different industries. Contributions to this work will be published first online immediately after review, followed by a printed book. First chapters of this book will be available during the conference. When complete by the mid-2021, the handbook will have over 1500+ pages of content, structured under 50+ peer reviewed chapters, from nearly 100 expert contributors from 10 countries. The electronic version will remain live to stay current with times on this rapidly evolving topic. An overview what can be expected in the next future will be given.
