Only the Dead Know NDT: Exploring the Critical and Little-Known Nondestructive Testing Business

With over a century of combined nondestructive testing (NDT) experience, the authors of this article would like to pass along some legacy knowledge of the NDT business from the perspective of services, equipment, training, and certification. Over their multi-decade careers, they have held numerous roles in field deployments, sales, marketing, management, mergers and acquisitions, accounting, government relations, and product development. In all cases, they learned that the key to success in NDT was about providing solutions to customer problems. The authors have experienced firsthand the incredible technical and commercial development of the NDT marketplace and desire to share their insights with the readers of Materials Evaluation.