The Workshop on NDT with Asia Pacific Countries
5-7 November 2007, Tokyo, JapanThe Japanese Society for Non-Destructive Inspection(JSNDI) has been planning contributions to Asiancountries for promoting NDT technologies from thetwenty first century downward.
IAEA had beenpromoting NDT industrial application among the East
Asian countries in last century. The future planningcommittee in JSNDI took up this matter, and planned tohold a workshop as one of its most important subjects
for the purpose.

chairman, Dr. Norikazu Ooka chaired the workshop.
Dr. Yoshikazu Yokono had a presentation on JSNDI
activities (qualification and certification, academic,education and standardization).
After the JSNDI
presentation, each representative had a twenty minutes
presentation to introduce activities of present NDTtechnologies prevalence.
During the presentations, the participants mainly
discussed connection between ISO 9712 andqualification and certification system in each country.

JSNDI held the workshop on NDT for enhancement ofcooperation with Asia Pacific countries for three days at
the JSNDI Office in Tokyo. For the first time trial,
JSNDI invited ten countries in the Asia Pacific region
under the budget of the future planning committee.
JSNDI selected four countries (Bangladesh, China,Korea and Taiwan) which have cooperationagreements with JSNDI, and other six developing
countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar,
Thailand and Vietnam). All countries invited took partin the workshop. The number of participants wasthirteen (two participants from Korea, Malaysia andTaiwan, and one participant from the other countries).
The workshop was held as an aim of creating mutual
understanding with countries in the Asia Pacific regionin order to foster NDT personnel, and to make progresswith NDT technologies.
At the workshop, eachdelegate was requested to introduce activities ofpresent NDT technology prevalence, and future
framework in each country, and it made deepen mutual
understanding among the participating countries.
Furthermore, discussions on NDT strategies in theworkshop made tight cooperation with the participatingcountries.

All participants in front of the exhibition entrance

Day 3
Discussion on the Workshop
The workshop participants visited the “Exhibition for
Non-Destructive Testing, Measuring, Evaluation, andDiagnosing Technology 2007” supported by JSNDI at
Tokyo Big Sight. It is a trade show that is held every
two years in Japan. The total number of visitors wasabout ten thousand for four days.
All participants discussed the future workshop at
JSNDI office after the exhibition. All participants
agreed that it was necessary to build up a structure ofpartnership regarding qualification and certification
system, and to promote its related education systemamong Asia Pacific countries.
At the end of the workshop, it was approved that thisworkshop carried on to the next stage. The workshop
was finished with great mutual understanding among
the participating countries.

Dr. Ogura (Left), Dr. Ooka (Centre), Dr. Yokono (Right)

Day 1 & Day 2
Presentations from Participating Countries
The chairman of the future planning committee, Dr.
Yukio Ogura had an opening greeting, and the host

The Japanese Society for Non-Destructive Inspection(JSNDI)
MBR99 Building, 67, Kanda-sakumagashi, Chiyoda-ku,
Tokyo, 101-0026 Japan
Tel: +81-3-5821-5105 Fax: +81-3-3863-6524
Email: acd@jsndi.or.jp