The OmniScan™ X4 is Evident’s newest ultrasonic flaw detector, a rugged all-in-one NDT inspection tool that allows operators of all skill levels to quickly and accurately detect even the most challenging flaws. The OmniScan X4 is lightweight, engineered for fast and easy use, and equipped with a full range of phased array ultrasonic testing (PAUT) capabilities. All models include total focusing method (TFM), phase coherence imaging (PCI), and plane wave imaging (PWI) technologies.
As portable and versatile as it is powerful, the new OmniScan X4 is designed to help boost your productivity, increase your confidence in assessments, and help you identify damage to welds and components earlier than ever before.
Let’s take a closer look at its features, capabilities, and benefits—here are five great ways the OmniScan X4 can make an immediate impact on your efficiency and workflow, your ability to make confident decisions, and your capacity to continually expand your capabilities.
Here we see in high clarity the data acquired during a multigroup phased array inspection of a weld.
1. Assess with certainty, supported by every ultrasonic technique Evident has to offer.
The OmniScan X4 is a comprehensive multitechnology toolbox that gives you access to today’s most advanced PAUT techniques as well as powerful focusing capabilities. This enables to harness multiple NDT tools—and gather as much data as possible to support your assessments.
Corrosion mapping setup combining Evident’s SteerROVER™ scanner, HydroFORM™ scanner, and the OmniScan X4 flaw detector.
The OmniScan X4 software’s easy-to-navigate setup workflow and parameter menus make advanced phased array, TFM, PCI, and PWI straightforward to use, even for new users. Leveraging these techniques in addition to PAUT helps you achieve consistently reliable results and make definitive decisions about the extent of cracking or corrosion. Having multiple imaging and measuring tools at the ready increases your ability to confidently identify and evaluate the severity of damage before it becomes critical, protecting asset and infrastructure integrity.
2. It’s the fastest and most powerful OmniScan ever.
With a faster processor, expanded RAM, and advanced imaging tools, the OmniScan X4 is quicker, more powerful, and more responsive than any previous models. This means you can rapidly process large data sets and experience near-instantaneous software reactivity.
- Twin TFM/PCI delivers clear imaging of difficult-to-detect flaws from both sides of a weld at the same time, helping improve the efficiency of your data acquisition.
View TFM and PCI data from both sides of a weld using two probes mounted on a scanner.
- Improved processing power can compute TFM in real time and up to 3x faster than predecessor models (depending on the configuration and use of sparse firing).
- A 1 TB solid state drive enables extended data acquisition without interruption, allowing technicians to inspect larger parts without pausing to transfer files.
- High-quality PA, TFM, and PCI images minimize false echoes, require fewer manipulations, and significantly reduce the time and effort needed to clean up scans.
3. It’s based on software you already know and use.
With the OmniScan X4, you can skip the training—the onboard MXU software 6.0 reuses all the features you’re already familiar with from the OmniScan X3 series. In addition, all OmniScan files are compatible, meaning you don’t have to redo setups (some restrictions on legacy OmniScan MX2 and OmniScan SX files).
Our complimentary OmniPC™ data analysis software is designed to meet most PAUT, TOFD, and TFM analysis needs. Its familiar OmniScan user interface eases the learning curve, and convenient shortcuts speed up navigation and data analysis. Data can be adjusted using multiple tools to correct for mistakes at acquisition or to improve reporting quality.
4. It’s designed to evolve without having to reinvest.
With free software updates and expanded possibilities for new application design, the OmniScan X4 empowers you to continuously evolve and grow.
The OmniScan X4 includes free quarterly MXU software updates on all models—delivering new customer-focused features that expand capabilities, adapt to future inspection needs, and keep you ahead of industry standards. With every MXU software update, your OmniScan X4 unit increases in value.
With the OmniScan Black Box app installed on the OmniScan X4 unit, WeldSight ™ Inspection software can control the data acquisition, and the data is routed directly to the laptop
You can also access future technological advances without having to reinvest. Raw elementary A-scans from FMC data can be used to reconstruct TFM imaging or other image reconstruction patterns, enabling the development of new applications (64:128PR model with the OmniScan Black Box app and the NDT Device API). With the OmniScan X4, you can continually expand and develop your inspection capabilities to achieve better results in an increasingly demanding NDT market.
5. It’s easily connected to collaborators anywhere on Earth.
The OmniScan X4 RCS offers remote collaboration tools, such as sharing live data acquisition images and enabling remote control of the instrument
Our X4 Remote Collaboration Service (X4 RCS) allows a remote collaborator to control the unit and host a video conference with participants almost anywhere on earth. This enhances field inspections and training by letting you share your inspection conditions and your display, enabling immediate collaboration. Use X4 RCS to solve roadblocks and harness the expertise of offsite colleagues as needed.
The OmniScan X4 offers a multitude of convenient ways to stay connected, quickly share critical files, and keep your device updated with today’s newest software.
Onboard Wi-Fi® 6E enables faster transfer rates and makes wireless data transfer more convenient (restrictions in some countries).
All of our latest software releases can be obtained wirelessly as soon as they are available. If you own a Microsoft OneDrive account, you can share your OmniScan X4 acquisitions and screenshots as soon as you have produced them (wireless connection needed at inspection site).
You can connect your mouse or keyboard via Bluetooth® 5.3 and enjoy the convenience of wireless remote control—perfect for training or writing instructions.
Be Ready for What’s Next
Evolve well into the future with the new OmniScan X4, a phased array flaw detector that’s expanding the possibilities of inspection by combining fast, accurate flaw detection, advanced imaging technology, and reliable performance with the ability to continually grow and diversify. Engineered for speed and simplicity, the OmniScan X4 is an agile, lightweight inspection solution that empowers you to confidently detect and analyze damage and defects, streamline your processes and workflows, and always be ready for what’s next.
If you would like more information, a demo, or a quote, reach out to your local Evident representative or contact us here.
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