UT Quality/UT Quality USA servicesServices/Film digitization
Legacy radiographic (RT) weld film sits in storage — taking up space, needing climate control, costing time every time a record has to be retrieved, and degrading on the shelf. UT Quality USA converts film archives into searchable digital weld records in DICONDE, the industry-standard format for NDT data.
A radiograph is only useful if you can find it and read it. Boxes of film make both harder every year.
Film archives take up storage that has to be paid for, year after year.
Film has to be kept in controlled conditions to stay readable.
Finding one weld’s film means pulling boxes by hand.
Physical film degrades over time — and a degraded radiograph is a lost record.
Your film is digitized on our equipment, by our people.
Each radiograph is captured as a full-resolution digital image, written to DICONDE and indexed to job, line and weld — found on screen instead of pulled from a box. Custody of the physical film is documented from pickup through to disposition.
Pickup and hauling of the film archive can be arranged. Custody is documented from pickup onward.
Each film is captured as a full-resolution digital image and indexed so it is traceable to job, line and weld — searchable instead of shelved.
You receive the DICONDE files and the index. The physical film is retained or destroyed — your decision, under your own procedure and retention policy — with a certificate of destruction when you choose disposal.
Digital weld records that support your record-keeping and integrity programs — found by search, not pulled from a box.
Full-resolution digital images of the film, in the industry-standard DICONDE format.
Every record indexed and traceable to job, line and weld.
Documented custody of the film from pickup to completion.
Issued for the physical film when you choose disposal.
DICONDE (Digital Imaging and Communication in Nondestructive Evaluation), the industry-standard format for NDT data. Each film is captured as a full-resolution digital image and indexed so it is traceable to job, line and weld.
You decide, under your own procedure and retention policy. The physical film can be retained, or, if you choose disposal, destroyed with a certificate of destruction. Chain of custody is documented from pickup to completion either way.
Pickup and hauling can be arranged. Tell us where the archive is stored when you request a quote.
Use the UT Quality USA request form, call +1 (281) 578-6523 or email info@rae.com. Tell us roughly how much film you have, how it is stored and where, and a UT Quality representative will follow up with a quote.
Tell us what you have and where it is stored — a UT Quality representative will follow up with a quote.
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