Project Partners
Italy
AIPnD was founded in 1979. It has approximately 1000 members including companies, institutes, research centres, schools, universities, and the manufacturers and suppliers of NDT equipment. Eighty percent of its corporate members are SMEs. Its aims are: -
- To promote scientific and technical awareness of developments in NDT through information and education.
- To improve the professionalism of those operating in the sector.
- To promote the life and culture of the association by encouraging the exchange of ideas, experience and knowledge among its members.
To survey the LRUT market in Italy, its current and future needs (WP-A), to input into the training and certification needs for technicians (WP-H), to provide and facilitate dissemination and exploitation plans in Italy, organise LRUCM National Conferences & Workshops (WP-I).
LRUCM is a collaboration between the following organisations: TWI Ltd, Deutsche Gesellschatt fur Zerstorungsfreie
Prufung EV, European Federation of Non Destructive Testing, Asociacion Espanola de Ensayos no Destructivos, Associacao
Portuguesa de Manutencao Industrial, Associazone Italiana Prove Non Distruttive Monitoraggio Diagnostica, Balgarski
Saiuz po Zavariavane, Ukrainian Society for Non Destructive Testing and Technical Diagnostics, Coaxial Power Systems
Ltd, I & T Nardoni Institute Srl, Sonatest NDE Plc, Isotest Engineering S.r.l., RARI - Construcoes Metalicas Engenharia
Projectos E Solucoes Industriais, Lda, A Casa Inteligente, Lda., Atlantis NDE Ingenieria de Inspeccion no Destructiva SL,
NDT Consultants Ltd, Advanced Technology Group Sro, Instituto de Soldadura e Qualidade Associacao, Kingston Computer
Consultancy Limited, Zenon Robotics and Informatics SA, Kauno Technologijos Universitetas, Nexus Engineering Ltd. The Project
is co-ordinated and managed by TWI Ltd. and is partly funded by the EC under the Collective SME programme ref:
Number Coll-CT-2005-516405.