Altair Systems integrates the full range of advanced NDT methods, multi-axis motion platforms, and unified inspection software into automated systems engineered to achieve reliable defect detection across any component geometry, material, or inspection standard.
The NDT methods, motion platforms, and software tools available to an automated inspection system integrator are a means to an end — not an end in themselves. The question that determines every technology selection we make at Altair Systems is: what combination of methods, axes, and software architecture will most reliably detect, characterise, and document the defect population relevant to this component, to this acceptance standard, in this production environment?
This page describes the technology capabilities Altair Systems brings to that question. Every capability listed here is something we have implemented in deployed inspection systems — not a theoretical offering.
Selected and integrated specifically for each inspection application.
What It Is: Phased Array UT uses a multi-element transducer array in which individual elements are excited with controlled time delays — creating electronically steered and focuse...
What It Is: TOFD is a pulse-echo ultrasonic technique that uses the diffraction of ultrasonic energy at defect tips — rather than specular reflection — to detect and size planar d...
What It Is: Full Matrix Capture records the complete set of transmit-receive data from every element combination in a phased array probe. Total Focusing Method then applies a post...
What It Is: Single-element focused or broad-beam transducers operating in pulse-echo mode — the established baseline of immersion and automated contact UT. Conventional UT remains...
What It Is: A dual-transducer technique where separate transmitter and receiver transducers are positioned on opposite sides of the component — the transmitted signal amplitude is...
What It Is: Eddy current testing uses electromagnetic induction to detect surface and near-surface discontinuities in electrically conductive materials — without the need for coup...
What It Is: A liquid penetrant method using fluorescent dye under UV-A illumination to reveal surface breaking discontinuities — cracks, porosity, laps, folds, and cold shuts — in...
What It Is: Digital radiographic testing uses X-ray or gamma-ray sources with digital detector arrays (DDA) or computed radiography (CR) systems to image internal component struct...
Linear Cartesian scanning optimised for flat plates, composite panels and regular geometry component...
Standard configuration for immersion tank systems delivering full volumetric inspection coverage.
Dual rotary axes enabling probe normal incidence on complex curved surfaces.
Articulated robotic arms enabling inspection of complex geometry components.
Altair Systems uses CIVA simulation software — the industry-standard NDT modelling platform — as a core part of the system engineering process. Before a system is built, the inspection performance is modelled and validated in simulation:
This simulation-first approach reduces project risk, compresses commissioning timelines, and provides the documented technical justification for inspection parameters that code-referenced qualification requires.
All Altair Systems automated inspection systems are delivered with a unified inspection software platform that manages the end-to-end inspection workflow — from system calibration and scan plan execution through real time data display, evaluation, and final reporting. The same software architecture is used across all system types, ensuring that operators trained on one Altair Systems platform can work effectively across others.
Every automated inspection system delivered by Altair Systems is designed, built, and commissioned under our ISO 9001:2015 certified quality management system. Our ISO 17025 accreditation — covering NDT inspection services — means that our understanding of measurement uncertainty, calibration traceability, and inspection performance qualification is embedded in the systems we design, not just the services we provide.