The NDEvR members’ support for co-funding advanced research and doctoral-level training in NDE reflects the recognition by the industrial sectors represented that NDE is an essential enabling technology to help with company and national goals for industrial growth. The required future advances in NDE technologies cannot be assumed to become available to underpin the UK’s industrial and economic goals, and they must be properly planned and funded from the early-stage basic research programmes through to the pre-competitive stages of technology transfer.
The industrial member companies of NDEvR work together to provide shared leadership, vision and steering of RCNDE’s activities in order to create opportunities and value for all. An important task for NDEvR members is to periodically prepare a collective view of their future requirements for NDE in their respective industry sectors, and more specifically at 5, 10 and 20-year horizons. The industrial vision process involves considering the trends, technological possibilities, emerging innovations and future sector and company needs. The reviews are undertaken in the context of a broad range of drivers, including market, regulatory, safety, environmental and economic factors.
RCNDE – an internationally renowned membership-based industrial-academic collaboration that coordinates research into NDE technologies, ensuring research topics are relevant to the medium to longer-term needs of industry.