YXLON Upgrades Y.Multiplex X-ray System for ASTM E2737-10 Standard

YXLON International is equipping the standard Y.Multiplex X-ray system with
new software to enable a convenient and automatic system test in compliance
with the ASTM E2737-10 standard. This standard is intended to make it easier
for industrial users of radiographic technology applications to test and
document their system's inspection performance, especially in the aviation
sector.

As a result, inspectors working on systems with digital flat-panel detectors
receive enormous support when auditing their inspection system, for instance
for Nadcap accreditation (National Aerospace and Defense Contractors
Accreditation Program), and an unbiased verification that facilitates the
transition from film to digital radiography.

X-ray inspections of parts bearing a relevance to safety are being switched over
more and more to digital flat-panel detectors, particularly in the aviation
industry. The omission of film and chemicals for developing and fixation puts
less of a burden not only on producers’ budgets but on the environment as
well. Simple, automated verification of the X-ray system’s stable quality,
including flat-panel detector and imaging software, can now be effected using
the new YXLON software on the basis of the ASTM E2737-10 standard.
Required system tests can be carried out without a great deal of time, effort and
expenditure. The tests are subsequently summarized in a report which can also
be archived as a PDF file.

Above and beyond this, with its new software YXLON is simultaneously
complying with the ASTM’s evolving DICONDE standard (Digital Imaging and
Communication in Nondestructive Evaluation). DICONDE is based on the DICOM
standard (Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine), which standardizes
data formats in medicine and enables their exchangeability, independent of
different manufacturers’ systems.

As a norm for industrial applications, DICONDE makes it possible to combine all
the relevant information, such as all the inspection parameters and details on
the inspection item, together with the image. All of the data is saved to the
fullest extent together with the image.

By enacting system qualification pursuant to ASTM E2737-10 and DICONDE,
YXLON once again provides customers with state-of-the-art technology and
optimal assurance.