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Simon Alain

Product Manager, Scanners and Inspection Solutions

Simon has a Bachelor's degree in science and is the product manager for Inspection Solutions at Olympus. For more than 14 years, Simon has overseen the introduction of numerous innovative portable scanning devices and inspection solutions, bringing improved ultrasound data acquisition to the market.

Articles

Circumferential PA and UT scanner being used by an inspector to inspect a weld in a rusty pipe
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First, We Simplified Long Seam Inspection and Now, Circumferential Weld Scanning

By Simon Alain - 12 May, 2022

Crane installing a wind turbine blade
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Give Your Wind Blade Inspection an Extra-Large Efficiency Boost

By Simon Alain - 19 October, 2021

Steel pipe weld inspector using the OmniScan X3 phased array ultrasonic testing instrument and AxSEAM long seam scanner for longitudinal scanning
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Master Pipe Weld Scanning with This Versatile Tool

By Simon Alain - 27 July, 2021

Passive-axis focusing wedge and phased array probe inspecting a half-pipe, compensating for divergence caused by the curvature of the pipe's surface and back wall.
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