Quality Assurance For Non-Destructive Testing
Quality Assurance For Non-Destructive Testing
Abstract
1.0 General
The quality system is maintained so that all the customer demands and
regulatory requirements are satisfied during all our site applications of
non-destructive testing activities.
All aspects required by ISO 9001 standard are controlled by the quality
system, which includes the organizational structure, procedures, processes
and resources for implementing quality management. The main idea of
setting up ISO 9001 quality system is to prevent occurrence of any non-
conformance through various of preventive measures. Despite of different
kinds of such systematic measures, the main QA measures for controlling
site NDT activities are: controlling NDT inspector qualifications,
validness of test equipment and test material, effectiveness of test
procedures, impact of environmental conditions to test results, and
monitoring actual NDT performance by quality surveillance inspectors.
Test materials are controlled so that they are valid for the tests, and have
no harmful to the component tested, which is extremely important to
stainless steel component testing. For example, when stainless steel
components for nuclear power plants are tested by ultrasonic testing
method, the coupling material should contain very little amount of
chlorinate, sulphate, phosphate materials, and should be qualified.
5.0 Conclusion
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