Minutes of the 40th ICNDT Meeting(Agenda Items 12 – 18)
Thursday 14 June 2018 – Gothenburg, SwedenthPresent:

S K Babu
A Bereson
C Belinco
P Wadyalkar
G Aufricht
J ConteM Mihovski
L Obrutsky
G ShenV Krstelj
P MazalJ Toivonen
E Martin
A Erhard
P Trampus
D Joshi
M Ghaemi
E Tuberosa
T Ogata
J P LeeR Sliteris
I Mukriz
J Verkooijen
L DickF Hermansen
T Chady
B Alves
A Stanciu
J GrumH Jansen
F Gomez
P Merck
W SchmidC H Chiang
C H Gϋr
C BullICNDT Chair/Singapore (NDTSS)
America (ASNT)
Argentina (AAENDE)
Australia (AINDT)
Austria (OGfZP)
Brazil (ABENDE)
Bulgaria (BGSNDT)Canada (CINDE)
China (ChSNDT)
Croatia (CrSNDT)Czech Republic (CNDT)
Finland (Finnish NDT Society)
France (COFREND)
Germany (DGZfP)
Hungary (MAROVISZ)
India (ISNT)
Iran (IRNDT)
Italy (AIPnD)
Japan (JSNDI)
Korea (KSNT)
Lithuania (LNBD)
Malaysia (MSNT)Netherlands (KINT)New Zealand (NZNDTA)
Norway (NSNDT)Poland (PTBNIDT/SIMP)
Portugal (FSEND RELACRE)
Romania (ARoEND)
Slovenia (SSNDT)South Africa (SAINT/SAIW)
Spain (AEND)/EFNDT Vice President
Sweden (FOP)
Switzerland (SGZP)
Taiwan (SNTCT)
Turkey (TURK NDT)
United Kingdom (BINDT)

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Participants

D Bajula
J Ansler
N OokaP Grosser
P Milligan
G Idinger
Y Mizahev
M Purschke
P Anandan
M Carboni
K KuboN YagiS OokaY Cho
M Choi
H J Chung
K K KohOhyang Kwon
S Hussein
R Klieber
E Romero
D J Gilbert
R LyonP Brisset
D Corcoran
J Jimenez
A Wooldridge
M Farley

Proxies:

RSA – SAINT (South African Society for NDT) – SAIW

Apologies:

Serbian Society for NDT

12.

America (ASNT)
Argentina (AAENDE)
Asia Pacific (APFNDT)Australia (AINDT)
Australia (AINDT)
Austria (OGfZP)
Bulgaria (BGSNDT)
Germany (DGZfP)ISNT India (ISNT)
Italy (AIPnD)
Japan (JSNDI)
Japan (JSNDI)
Japan (JSNDI)/Chair ICNDT WG4
Korea (KSNT)/WCNDT President
Korea (KSNT)
Korea (KSNT)
Korea (KSNT)
Korea (KSNT)
Malaysia (MSNT)Switzerland (SSNT)
Spain (AEND)
United Kingdom (BINDT) – General Secretary
EFNDTInternational Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
ISO TC135 SC7 Chair
ISO TC135 SC7 ChairICEC Secretary
ICNDT Immediate Past Chairman

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Introduction to New Constitution
The Chair opened the 40th ICNDT meeting and welcomed from Federations, H Jansen, N Ooka,
R Lyon and A Bereson.
D Marshall and W Schmid were confirmed as the auditors. The Chair to send a formal invitation.
Action Ref.
No.
40th ICNDT/201806-14/..
1.

12.1

Desc.

WHO

Formally invite D Marshalland W Schmid as the ICNDTAuditors.

S K Babu

STATUS/COMPLETE BY

Ongoing.

Membership Committee
A copy of the report is attached. J Conte thanked members of the committee.

12.2

Communications/Internet/Journal
A copy of the report is attached.

12.3

WG1 Qualification and Certification
A copy of the report is attached.

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12.4

Certification Executive Committee
A copy of the report is attached.
M Farley thanked AINDT for questions on digital radiography.

12.5

WG3 Research and Education Committee
A copy of the report is attached.

12.6

Confirmation of Committee/Working Group Chairs/membership
There was no change to the WG Chairs other than C Belinco is Co-Chair of WG6.

13.

Progress report from 20th World Conference in Seoul, Korea
WCNDT is being held on 8-12 June 2012 at the COEX, Soul, Korea. Y Cho introduced the support
team.

14.

Regional Group Reports
14.1

Asia Pacific
N Ooka reported that the following events were taking place:

14.2

Malaysia

12-13 November 2018

India

19-21 December

ASNT

28-31 October

JSNDI

15-16 November

Pan-America
J Conte reported on Latin America.
A Bereson reported on the Oil & Gas Advisory Board which deals with performance testing
related to thickness measurement of pipes, TOFD etc.

14.3

EuropeP Trampus reported. The EFNDT website is to be updated with the new OPs and new
President details etc.

14.4

AfricaH Jansen reported (copy attached).

14.5

WG6 – Condition Monitoring
C Belinco reported (copy attached).

15.

Associated Bodies
15.1

IAEA
C Belinco gave a presentation on a regional project consisting of 4-6 collaborating groups. The
report is available to download from the website under Workshops and Presentations.

15.2

ISO TC135
N Ooka and D Corcoran acknowledged the hard work of Sharon Bond and advised that there
would be a systematic review of ISO9712.

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15.2

IIW

S K Babu reported that the MoU was signed in Shanghai and the details of the MoU were outlined at theBali Conference.
A specific plan is being followed and IIW will be invited to participate in WG1.
15.3

ASME

A preliminary meeting has been held regarding setting up a MoU between us.
16.

Forward Plans
16.1

Update of Strategic Plan

M Farley advised that the 1st meeting of IAC would be taking place this afternoon but it would be aclosed meeting. The meeting would be with the IEC and representatives of regions and will discuss
priorities that ICNDT and regions might have and what may be included in Strategic Plan(s).
17.

Opportunity for comments by Members
The following ideas have already been offered:
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New routes to membership for countries that do not yet have a Society.
Mediation disputes – assistance.
Promotion of national delegate/coordinator.
Human factors.
Liaison membership
What do we want from ASME?
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C Bull suggested Diversity & Inclusion and outlined what BINDT is doing in this area.
J Verkooijen suggested that we need to avoid duplication in the MRA.
J Toivonen suggested statistics on numbers of inspectors etc. M Farley advised that work was alreadybeing done with regard to updating the list of certification bodies and market research reports.
R Lyon raised the age profile issue.
18.

Close of 40th ICNDT Meeting
Congratulations were extended to S K Babu and the meeting was closed.

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ICNDT MEMBERSHIP REPORT2018 – May
Chair: J. Conte
Members: Alexander Mullin, David Gilbert, Ferid Herelli, Les Dick, Mike Farley,
Shohei Ooka, Matthias Purschke and Sharon Bond.
1. Review of the ICNDT Strategic Plan
1.1 Action Plan “Support NDT Societies”
2. Contacts with Algerian and Lebanese societies to capture as members of
ICNDT
3. Contacts with institutions in Latin America, which develop NDT activities incountries that do not have national NDT Societies: ESPOL/Ecuador,
CEADEN/Cuba and ITCR/Costa Rica
4. Contact with Caribbean entities to promote ICNDT´s activities.
5. Pending registration form by Sri Lanka Association for Non Destructive
Testing to become a full member of ICNDT.
6. Confédération Marocaine pour les Essais Non Destructifs has joined
ICNDT as a full member
7. Review the proposal of the OP (Operating Procedures) – NDT Societies
Operation

WG1 on NDT Qualification and Certification
Report to ICNDT GA
June 2018
COMMITTEE ADMINISTRATIONWG1 Action plan was updated on 15th of November 2017 in Singapore. Some updates
were prepared to be approved at WG1 meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden (action plan
attached).
Membership. Currently – 22 members representing the following countries: Austria,
Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Germany, France, Japan, India, Iran,
Republic of Korea, Russia, Serbia, Singapore, Spain, South Africa, Turkey, Ukraine,
UK, USA (List of members attached). After Vienna meeting Ms. Helle Hansen
Rasmussen replaced Mr. Bjørn Pedersen according to request of Danish NDT society.
After Singapore meeting new members were approved: Diwakar D. Joshi (IndianSociety for NDT) and Shohei Ooka (JSNDI, replaced Norikazu Ooka). Ji Jingyuan(ChSNDT) was reappointed in February 2018.
Forthcoming physical meeting will be on 13th of June 2017 in Gothenburg (Agenda
attached).
COMMUNICATION AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING
There are four Qualification and Certification groups in ICNDT regions with which WG1
has communication through its members: Asia Pacific – S K Babu, P Milligan, EFNDT –M Purschke, R Rodriguez, Africa – H Jansen, Pan-America - J Rufino Filho, P.K. Yuen.
Regional reports regarding certification activity are available at each WG1 meeting.
WG 1 has liaison and/or Observer status with relevant organizations: ISO TC 135 SC7(Mike Farley, Alexander Mullin, IAEA (G Aufricht, R Holstein), ISO/CASCO WG 30 (SKBabu, Nicole Banks), ASME (ASNT representative), IAF (SK Babu), ICNDT WG6 (Peter
Milligan).
WG1 keeps directory of NDT personnel certification bodies, with scopes of compliance,
numbers of persons certificated and certificates issued, etc. Directory published on
ICNDT web site and in ICNDT Guide to qualification and certification.
Qualification/Certification issues were discussed at the Workshop on NDT Laboratory
Accreditation & Personnel Certification during 15th APCNDT in Singapore on 16th ofNovember 2017. Date and place of next Q&C workshop will be defined at the meeting in
Gothenburg.
GLOBAL HARMONISATION AND RECOGNITION
WG1 has developed recommendations on improvement of ISO 9712:2012.
Recommendations as ICNDT submission according to ISO procedure were forwarded
to ISO TC135 SC7 for Review of ISO9712:2012.
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WG1 has nominated its members to represent ICNDT in ISO TC135 SC7 Task Groups
dealing with revision of ISO 9712:2012: Sajeesh Kumar Babu (TG#1), Dave Bajula(TG#2), PK Yuen (TG#4), Harold Jansen (TG#5), Peter Milligan (TG#6), Alexander
Mullin (TG#7).
Updated list of ISO/EN standards used for NDT of different products is available at each
WG1 meeting.
Discussion about substitution renewal by recertification is continued, on-line survey
among members was done and draft document will be presented in Gothenburg.
Third version of the document Clarification of functions and responsibilities ofCertification body – Authorised Qualification body – Examination center has been
forwarded to ISO TC135 SC7.
Second draft of the document Recommendation for grading of practical examination
was prepared and will be discussed in Gothenburg.
Discussion on Interpretation of ISO 9712:2012 Table D.1 “Guidance on the percentile
weighting for practical examination of Levels 1 and 2” for different NDT methods will be
continued in Gothenburg.
Survey regarding surveillance for ISO 9712 particular case was done and results will be
discussed in Gothenburg.
Actions “Survey of job-specific training and certification being carried out to supplement
ASNT and ISO 9712 certification”, “Discussion on how to deal with “experience
requirements” in ISO 9712 leading to recommendations to ISO TC 135 SC7”,“Harmonisation and recognition - risk and opportunity analysis”, “Discuss if NDTSocieties/PCBs could assess and approve employers‟ certification to ICNDT
requirements”, “Discuss if NDT Societies/PCBs could establish an expert group to
oversee the inspection qualification activities”, “Discuss possibility to set up a register ofapproved independent L3‟s (or CM Category 3s or 4s) with available to control NDT/CM
activities on-site” are ongoing.

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WG1 members (rev. April 2018)
Name

Affiliatione-mailAlexander Mullin (Chair)

Russian Society for NDTmullin@ndt-rus.ru

Gerhard Aufricht (1) or
Gerald Idinger (2)Austrian society for NDT

aufricht@mittli.at org.idinger@oegfzp.at

Harold Jansen

South African IW

jansenh@saiw.co.zaJoão Rufino Teles Filho

Brazilian Society for NDT

rufino@rufinoteles.com.br

P.K. Yuen

Canadian Institute of NDE

puikei.yuen@canada.ca

Matthias Purschke (1) or
Ralf Holstein (2)German Society for NDT

pm@dgzfp.de or
ho@dgzfp.de

Shohei Ooka

Japanese Society for NDI

shohei@jsndi.or.jp

Patrick Fallouey

Honoured member

Patrick.Fallouey@orange.fr

Andre Charbonnie

Cofrenda.charbonnier@isgroupe.com

Rodolfo RodrÍguez

Spanish Society for NDT

r.rodriguez@aend.org

Arny Bereson
andDave Bajula

American Society for NDT

ABereson@asnt.org

Sajeesh Kumar Babu

NDT Society (Singapore)skbabu@ndtss.org.sg

Vitaly Radko

Ukrainian Society for NDTGarwardv@i.ua

Keith Arcus

Australian Institute for NDT

kcarcus1@bigpond.net.au

Nicole Banks

British Institute for NDT

nicole.banks@bindt.org

Kyung-Cho Kim

Korean SNT

robertkc.kim@gmail.com

Jingyuan Ji

Chinese Society for NDT

mib8888@163.com

Cemil Hakan Gur

Turkish NDT Society

chgur@metu.edu.tr

Goran Sofronic

Serbian Society for NDT

gsofronic@gmail.com

Mirmajid Ghaemi

Iranian Society for NDT

mirmajidghaemi@gmail.com

Helle Hansen Rasmussen

Danish NDT Society

hhr@force.dk

Diwakar D. Joshi

Indian Society for NDT

diwakarj@gmail.com

Mike Farley

Past Chairman, ICNDT

mfarleyconsulting@btinternet.com

Tony Wooldridge

ICEC Secretary

tony.wooldridge1@gmail.com

David Gilbert

General Secretary ICNDTDavid.Gilbert@bindt.org

Patrick Brisset

IAEA

p.brisset@iaea.org

Peter Milligan

Australian Institute for NDT

csm@aindt.com.au

Norikazu Ooka

Japanese Society for NDI

nori-ooka@rio.odn.ne.jp

dbajula@acuren.com

Observer status3

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Meeting of 13th of June 2018 (Wednesday)
08:00 – 12:00
Gothenburg, Sweden
The Swedish Exhibition & Congress Centre

AGENDA
1. Welcome and Apologies

WG1 Chairman

2. Adoption of the Agenda

WG1 Chairman

3. Approval of the Minutes of the Meeting held on 15 November 2017
in Singapore

WG1 Chairman

4. WG1 Membership

WG1 Chairman

5. Action plan

WG1 Chairman

6. Representation of WG1 in TC 135 SC7 Task groups

WG1 Chairman

7. Current situation with revision of ISO 9712:2012.

D Corcoran

8. Improvement of OP19 and OP20

T Wooldridge

9. Substitution renewal by recertification.

R Holstein

10. Interpretation of Table D.1 of ISO 9712:2012

N Banks

11. Recommendation for grading of practical examination

WG1 Chairman

12. Task Group for discussion if NDT Societies/PCBs could assess andapprove employers’ certification to ICNDT requirements

V Radko

13. Task Group for discussion if NDT Societies/PCBs could establish
an expert group to oversee the inspection qualification activities

R Rodriguez

14. Harmonisation and recognition - risk and opportunity analysis

PK Yuen

15. Surveillance

WG1 Chairman

16. Significant interruption. Reasons for exceptions.

N Banks

17. ICNDT Examination question bank (EQB)

T Wooldridge

18. Job-specific training and certification being carried out
to supplement ASNT and ISO 9712 certification

H Jansen4

19. Experience requirements in ISO 9712:2012

K Arcus

20. Information regarding ARCAL-IAEA project: "Advancing
Non-Destructive Testing Technologies for the Inspection of Civil
and Industrial Structures "P Brisset

21. Report on the work of the ICEC

T Wooldridge

22. WCNDT 2020. Certification related sessions

Kim Kyung-Cho

23. Any other businessmembers

24. Date and place of next meeting

WG1 Chairman

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on Qualification
and Certification

INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE FORNON DESTRUCTIVE TESTINGICNDT ACTION PLAN 3: QUALIFICATION AND CERTIFICATION

Task Group: WG1

Task Group Leader: Alexander Mullin

Document title

Revision Date

Revised by

Scope of revision

Circulated to WG1

WG1-03_Action Plan

2009-08-17

JR Thompson

Synchronised with ICNDT Strategic Plan (revision 3A). NOTE: theICNDT strategic plan is now at Rev 5

2009-08-24

WG1-03_Action Plan

2010-01-04

JR Thompson

Superficial review following the first WG1 meeting in Yokohama, andprior to an IEC virtual meeting in January 20102010-01-04

WG1-03_Action Plan

2010-01-18

JR Thompson

Reformatted and rationalised following IEC Teleconference

2010-09-12

WG1-03_Action Plan

2010-09-12

WG1

Reviewed and revised at Vienna meeting as required by WG1 ToR

2010-09-28

WG1-03_Action Plan

2011-06-10

WG1

Reviewed and revised at Valencia meeting as required by WG1 ToR an
IEC

2011-07-01

WG1-03_Action Plan

2012-11-19

A Mullin

Reviewed and revised at Luton meeting

2012-11-19

WG1-03_Action Plan

2013-11-20

A Mullin

Reviewed and revised at Mumbai meeting

2013-11-20

WG1-03_Action Plan

2014-10-06

A Mullin

Reviewed and revised at Prague meeting

2014-09-23

WG1-03_Action Plan

2015-10-30

A Mullin

Reviewed and revised at Salt Lake City meeting

2015-10-08

WG1-03_Action Plan

2016-06-16

A Mullin

Reviewed and revised at Munich meeting

2016-06-06

WG1-03_Action Plan

2017-06-05

A Mullin

Reviewed and revised at Vienna meeting

2017-06-05

WG1-03_Action Plan

2017-11-15

A Mullin

Prepared and revised at Singapore meeting

2017-10-19

A Mullin

Prepared for Gothenburg meeting

2018-05-30

WG1-03_Action Plan

Assignments are proposed by the chairman for acceptance by the nominated WG1 member. Where primary and secondary (or backup) responsibilities are stated,
this is to (a) spread the workload, (b) ensure continuity in the event that an individual ceases to be a WG1 member, and (c) improve the likelihood that at least one
member responsible for a particular assignment will be in attendance at a WG1 meeting. It is up to the individuals assigned to a task to divide up the work betweenthem.

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Who?

When?

Progress / remarks

Regularly review and update the Group’s objectives (thisAction Plan).

Nill

A Mullin

at each physicalmeeting

Updated after Singapore meeting in 20172

Regularly review and update (if required) the Terms ofreference

Nill

A Mullin

Ongoing(without
deadline)task

ToR revision 2013-11-20 is valid.

3

Periodically review and refresh membership to ensure global
representation

Nill

A Mullin

Ongoing(without
deadline)task

After Singapore meeting new members
were approved:

Action item / projectX

COMMITTEE ADMINISTRATION1

IEC decision

Diwakar D. Joshi (Indian Society for
NDT) and Shohei Ooka (JSNDI, replaced
Norikazu Ooka)

Ji Jingyuan (ChSNDT) was reappointed

4

Define timetable for actions that should feed into the revisionof ISO 9712

A

COMMUNICATION AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING

A1

Establish lines of communication with Qualification andCertification group(s) in ICNDT regions (Africa, Europe,
America, Asia) with a view to co-ordination of activities.
Responsible WG1 member(s) to provide written report ofregional meetings for circulation to WG1 members.

A2

Seek , maintain or re-establish liaison and/or Observer status
with relevanta). ISO TC135 SC7 and relevant WG

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Nill

A Mullin
D Corcoran

Nill

See remarks
columnOngoing task(without
deadline)

Asia Pacific – S K Babu, P Milligan
EFNDT – M Purschke, R Rodriguez
Africa – H Jansen
Pan-America - João Rufino Teles Filho,
P.K. Yuen

Nill

M Farley
A Mullin

Ongoing task(without
deadline)

ICNDT WG1 has official SC7 liaison
status.
ISO/TC 135/SC 7/WG 9 Revisions of
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b). International Accreditation Forum (IAF).

Nill

SK Babu

Ongoing task(without
deadline)

SK Babu provides the liaison between
ICNDT WG1 and IAF.

c). ISO/CASCO WG30 (revising ISO/IEC 17024)

Nill

SK
Babu,
Nicole Banks
assists.

To be decided

To be discussed in Gothenburgd). ASME and similar bodies on NDT personnel qualification
matters

Nill

ASNT
representative

Ongoing task(without
deadline)

ASNT representative provides liaisonf). International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

Nill

G Aufricht
R Holstein

Ongoing task(without
deadline)

Formal liaison with IAEA re-establishedwith a view to co-operation on several
matters.
See A3 below

A3

IAEA

A3.1

Plan programme of joint workshops

M Farley

Ongoing task

Draft plan programme of joint workshops
in cooperation with P Brisset

A3.2

Identify project ideas for global benefit

M Farley

Ongoing task

Cooperate with P Brisset on this matterA4

To keep up-to date directory of NDT personnel certification
bodies, with scopes of compliance, numbers of persons
certificated and certificates issued, etc.

Nill

A Wooldridge

Ongoing task(without
deadline)

Directory published on the ICNDT website should be kept up-to-date.

A5

Provide assistance for developing countries seeking toestablish national certification schemes.

Nill

P Milligan

Upon request

A6

Plan and organise a regular (annual or biennial) workshop on
qualification and certification topics, inviting guest speakers
with specialist knowledge/experience

Nill

A Mullin

as required

Date and place of Q&C workshop to be
discussed in Gothenburg

A7

Provide new and interesting material on qualification andcertification in order to keep the ICNDT website updated.

Nill

D Gilbert /A Mullin

Ongoing task(without
deadline)

WG1 members are responsible toforwarding matters of interest throughWG1 chairman to D Gilbert

A8

Identify possibility to create unified body of knowledge basedon gap analysis between TR 25107, CP106 and Tec.Doc 628

Nill

R Holstein

Awaiting
developments in
ISO TC 135 SC7

ISO is proceeding with revision of TR
25107, under WG9 of SC7. ICNDT
should participate in particular sub-

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WG9groups.

A9Organise periodical meetings with ASNT to discuss
personnel certification matters

Nill

A Mullin
M Farley

Ongoing task

Next meeting is to be decided

A10

Seek opportunities for engagement in the Middle East,
including organising a WG1 meeting and workshop at aconference there.

Nill

A Mullin
M Farley

Ongoing task

Suspended

A11

Establish liaison with ICNDT WG6 in terms of CM personnel
certification

Nill

P Milligan

Ongoing task

B

GLOBAL HARMONISATION AND RECOGNITION

B1

Review and update the ICNDT Guide and Recommendations
on NDT personnel Qualification and Certification.

Nill

D Gilbert,
WG1
members

Ongoing task

ICNDT Guide to Qualification andCertification has been updated andpublished in June 2016 to WCNDT 2016

B2

Participation in maintaining of ICNDT Examination questionbank (EQB)

Nill

WG1
members

Upon request ofIEC

Functions of WG1 are defined in OP-23.

B3

Develop the table of ISO standards used for NDT of different
products.

Nill

A Mullin
WG1members

Ongoing task

Table should be kept up-to-date.

B4

Consider substitution renewal by recertification

Nill

R Holstein

Ongoing task

ICNDT now inputting to relevant ISO
TC135 SC7 Task Group.
Survey of WG1 to be carried out.

B5

Clarification of functions and responsibilities of Certificationbody – Authorised Qualification body – Examination center

Nill

A Mullin
WG1members

as required

ICNDT now inputting to relevant ISO
TC135 SC7 Task Group

B7

Prepare ICNDT guidelines on the impact of Human Factors
on reliability of NDT executed by certificated personnel.

Nill

TBD

Ongoing task

Action suspended as ICNDT International
Specialist Group on the same matter isgoing to be created
To be considered further in the light of
the ICNDT workshop in Singapore.

B7

Survey of job-specific training and certification being carriedout to supplement ASNT and ISO 9712 certification

Nill

H Jansen

Ongoing task

To be discussed in Gothenburg

B8

Discussion on how to deal with “experience requirements” inISO 9712 leading to recommendations to ISO TC 135 SC7Nill

K Arcus

Ongoing task

To be discussed in Gothenburg

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B9

Develop recommendation for grading of practicalexamination.

Nill

A Mullin
WG1members

Ongoing task

To be discussed in Gothenburg

B10Interpretation of ISO 9712:2012 Table D.1 “Guidance on thepercentile weighting for practical examination of Levels 1 and
2” for different NDT methods.

Nill

Nicole Banks

Ongoing task

Discussed in Singapore, November
2017. Continues

B11

Harmonisation and recognition - risk and opportunity analysis

Nill

PK Yuen

Ongoing task

To be discussed in Gothenburg

B12

Review options for training and certification inengineering and opportunities for ICNDT to add value

civil

Nill

A Mullin
WG1members

Ongoing task

Organize review of certification in civilengineering among PCBs

B13

Discuss if NDT Societies/PCBs could assess and approve
employers’ certification to ICNDT requirements

Nill

Vitaly Radko

November 2017

To be discussed in Gothenburg

B14

Discuss if NDT Societies/PCBs could establish an expert
group to oversee the inspection qualification activities

Nill

RodolfoRodriguez

November 2017

Revised questionnaire being issued (May
2018)

B15

Discuss possibility to set up a register of approved
independent L3’s (or CM Category 3s or 4s) with available tocontrol NDT/CM activities on-siteNill

A Mullin

November 2017

Discussed in Singapore, November 2017

B16

Participation in ISO 9712 revision process

Nill

A Mullin
M Farley
WG1
members

2020

ICNDT is represented on each of the
ISO TC135 SC7 Task Groups set up to
consider the comments submitted.
Further actions to be discussed in
Gothenburg

B17

Clarification of surveillance for ISO 9712 particular case

Nill

Vitaly Radko

Ongoing task

To be discussed in Gothenburg

WG1-03_Action Plan.doc

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For further information, contact mullin@ndt-rus.ru

Issued 2018-__-__

Report from the ICNDT Certification
Executive Committee (ICEC) for 2017
Compiled by Tony Woodridge. Secretary ICEC
Presented by Harold Jansen, Chairman ICEC

Contents

 Responsibilities of ICEC Status of ICNDT Multi-lateral Recognition Agreement - OP19
 Current activities for Conformity Assessment - OP20
 ICNDT Examination Question BankICNDT Multilateral Recognition Agreement (MRA) Current Status of Schedule 1
44 National Societies, which are Members of ICNDT havesigned the ICNDT MRA Schedule 1:
Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada,
China, China Taiwan, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic,
Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India,
Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Mexico,
Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia,
Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa (SAINT & SAIW), South Korea,
Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, UK and
Uzbekistan.

They have thereby agreed to recognise the certification
awarded by the Personnel Certification Bodies (PCBs)
which are registered with ICNDT under Schedule 2.

ICNDT Multilateral Recognition Agreement (MRA) Current Status of Schedule 2
14 Personnel Certification
Bodies (PCBs) are registeredwith the ICNDT MRA
Schedule 2:
AINDT Australia,
ABENDI Brazil,
ChSNDT China,
Inspecta Sertifiointi Finland,
SECTOR Cert Germany,
Hobeon SKO Netherlands,
UDT-CERT Poland,

RELACRE Portugal
RTC Russia,
SAIW Certification South
Africa,NDTSS Singapore,
NCNDT Sri Lanka.
PCN UK,
Ukr-SRINDT UkraineICNDT Multilateral Recognition Agreement (MRA)Recent changes to signatories

Recent signatories to MRA Schedule 1 (National Societies)

 Mexico

May 2017

 Uzbekistan

May 2017

 Sri Lanka

June 2017

 Argentina

August 2017

ICNDT Multilateral Recognition Agreement (MRA)Recent Changes to Registrations
Recent new registrations to MRA Schedule 2 (Personnel
Certification Bodies)

 NDTSS – Singapore
 NCNDT - Sri Lanka

July 2017
October 2017

Recent renewals of registration to MRA Schedule 2 (PCBs) UKrSRINDT Ukraine
 RELACRE Portugal
 RTC Russia
 AINDT Australia
 PCN UK
 Inspecta Sertifiointi Finland NCNDT Sri Lanka

January 2017
March 2017
March 2017
July 2017
July 2017
August 2017
October 20172017 was a very busy year for ICEC MRA review teams.
THANK YOU for your hard work and dedication

ICNDT Multilateral Recognition Agreement (MRA)Other activities

Schedule 2 Applications in Progress DSD Malaysia
 ChSNDT China
 China Taiwan
Revision of Operating Procedure OP19
A revision of OP19 has been circulated for comment by ICEC and IEC
and the final version is expected to be approved this week.

ICNDT Conformity Assessment of Personnel
Certification Bodies

 In situations where independent accreditation of PCBs is notavailable or considered sufficient, ICNDT may offer aconformity assessment to support an application forregistration under the MRA Schedule 2.

 There were no conformity assessment audits required during2017. However one audit has been performed during 2018 for
ChSNDT, and following completion of corrective actions,approval by ICEC is awaited.

The ICNDT Examination Question Bank – What
does it offer?

 The EQB comprises:
•
•
•
•
•
•

A stand-alone database application;
Containing over 7,000 multiple-choice questions;
Covering Levels 1, 2 and 3;
General and sectors (aerospace, welds, castings, etc.);
Available currently in English and Spanish;Compliant with the latest issue of ISO 9712.

The ICNDT Examination Question Bank – Scope of
Questions Methods and sectors covered are:
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Radiation safety: General;
Materials Science: Multi-sector;
Time of Flight Diffraction: Welds;
Visual Testing: In-Service Inspection, General;
Magnetic Particle Testing: In-Service Inspection, General;
Penetrant Testing: In-Service Inspection, General;
Eddy Current Testing: Aerospace, General, In-Service Inspection,
Tubes, Welds, Wrought products;
Radiographic Testing: Aerospace, Castings, General, In-Service
Inspection, Welds;
Ultrasonic Testing: Aerospace, Castings, General, In-Service
Inspection, Welds, Wrought products.

The ICNDT Examination Question Bank – Users

 PCBs in six countries have purchased the EQB.
 One country has been provided with a free copy in return fortranslation of questions into Spanish.

The ICNDT Examination Question Bank – Current
activities

 Under a project funded by the IAEA, Argentina is leading thetranslation into Spanish of new questions on phased arrayultrasonic and digital radiography. Once translation andvalidation is complete, these new topics will be added to the
EQB database.

 ICEC is reviewing options for the future development of the
EQB. These options concern both the examination questions
themselves and the method of delivering the examination
papers to users.

WG3 (Education and Research) Reportto the 40th GA, Gothensburg Sweden, June 14th, 2018 at the 12th ECNDT

Review of the previous meeting minutes ( Singapore, Nov 2017, 17th APCNDT)

Dr. Mike FarleyCurrent Status and Meetings

1) Members:
Mr. M. Johannes(former chair, retired, South Africa)

Prof. Younho Cho(Chair, Pusan Natl Univ/ KSNT, Korea) – WCNDT2020 President

Dr. Antonio “Tony” Erhart
Prof. Steve Holland(Vice chair, Germany)(US)- Leonard Bond QNDE

Ms (Dr.) Ekaterina Cheprasova (Russainan NDT society)Prof. Vjera Krstelj(Croatian NDT Society) - NDT Academia

Mr. (Dr.) Harold Jansen (SAIW South Africa)
Prof. Marc Kreutzbruck (U of Stuttgart, Germany)
Mr. Kevin Smith (ASNT US)
Dr. Uwe Ewert (BAM Germany)Mr. (Dr.) Robert Smith/Kevin Newton (BINDT, UK)
Prof. Serge Dos Santos (INSA, Cofrend, France)
Prof. Norbert Meyendorf (Iowa State Univ, WFNDEC, US) – Paul Scchafbuch ?
Prof. Krishnan Balasubramanian (IIT Chennai, ISNT, India)
ANO InidaProf. Chungguang Xu (BIT, ChsNDT, China)??? (to be expanded on the recommendation)
Plus
Dr Mike Farley(Immediate Past Chair of ICNDT)

Dr. Sajeesh K. Babu (Chair of ICNDT), ICNDT IAC
2)Topics for the NDT specialist groups (sub groups)(Leading society)
Full Matrix Capture

BINDT UK (Pual Wilcox)

Terahertz Imaging

BINDT UK

Microwave

ASNT US (K. Smith)Magnetic Memory

Hungarian NDT Society, BINDT (P. Trampus, M. Farley)

NDT of Art

BINDT (M. Farley)

NDT reliability

DGZFP

Nonlinear UTDGZFP (M. Kreutzbruck)

Guided Wave Ultrasound

KSNT ( Y Cho )???
3) Meetings
Munich, Germany June 2016, 19th WCNDTLong Beach, CA US, Oct. 2016, ANST’s 75th Anniversary conference
Singapore, Nov 2017, 17th APCNDT
Gothensburg Sweden, June 2018, 18th ECNDT(to be planned)
Manchester UK July 2018, EWSHM in association with IWSHM community
Notthingham UK, July 2018, Laser Ultrasound Conf
Burlington VT, US, July 2018, QNDE, in association with WFNDEC
Burges Belgium, Sep 2019, ICU in association with ICU community
Mexco City, Mexico, Oct 2019, PANNDT Conf
Seoul South Korea, June 2020, 20th WCNDT
Additional on-line meetings could be arranged if neededStrategic Plan and Action Items

1) Draft of OP for Proceedings (Mr. D. Gilbert at BINDT)
To be reviewed and revised at upcoming meetings2) Update of ICNDT Guideline-

Draw up a list of schools-

Draw up a list of NDT Texts, Handbooks, Magazines and Technical Journals

3) Expansion of WG3 by increasing the number of registered NDT bodies (planned to be madeup to 20 bodies by the end of 2017) such as IIW, ASME PVP, EPRI NDE Center, WFCNDE,
ICU, IWSHM, FENDT etc.

4) Organizing the NDT specialist group Workshops (Sessions) in upcoming ICNDT meetings
including the 20th WCNDT, Seoul South Korea, June 2018

5) Collaboration with WG4 (communication) to update the on-line NDT technical stuffs andinformation on Wikipedia and others etc.
6) Collaboration with ISO TC to come up with new proposals on emerging NDT technologies

7) Setting up a educational program for the youth and developing countries
8) Launching a technical journal via ICNDT to enhance its reputation in NDT academic fields
in terms of technical depth and to help ICNDT budget

MiscellaneousAfrican Federation of NDT – AFNDT2017 / 2018 Report

AFNDT Membership(Signatories to the AFNDT Constitution – Adopted April 2014)

Full Membership:a.

Algeria

Research Center in Industrial Technologies

CRTI

b.

AngolaNational Technological Centre

CTN

c.

Cameroon

Hydrocarbures-Analyses-Controles

Hydracd.

Ghana

Ghana Atomic Energy Commission

GAEC

e.

Kenya

Kenya Bureau of Standards

KEBS

f.

South Africa

South African Institute of Non-Destructive Testing

SAINT

g.

Sudan

Sudanese Society For Nondestructive testing

SSNDT

h.

Tunisia

Mechanical & Electrical Industries Technical Centre(Cetime)i.

Moroccoj.

Libya

ComendWelding Center Tripoli - Advanced Occupational
Centre for Welding Technology

Secretariat & Associate Member:k.

South Africa

Southern African Institute of Welding

SAIW

AFNDT PresidentthDuring the 7 African Conference of Non-Destructive Testing (ACNDT 2016) that was held in Oran, Algeria
Dr SAHAIMI Kamal from Commend in Morocco, was elected as the new AFNDT president replacing Dr
ZERGOUG Mourad from Algeria.

AFNDT Annual General Assembly
Due to challenges relating to communication and personnel availability, no AFNDT AGM was held during
2017.
An AFNDT AGM is scheduled for October 2018 to be held in South Africa.

AFNDT Secretariat: Southern African Institute of Welding (SAIW)AGM - AGENDA ITEMS
1) Establish a Regional AFRA / AFNDT project to promote NDT standardisation and infrastructuredevelopment
2) Establish communication channels and protocols3) Align the AFNDT constitution with that of ICNDT4) Initiate and grow NDT infrastructure in each African country – National society, Standardisation /Industrial / NDT Scheme committees, ATB’s, ExC, PCB’s & AQB’s – initially regional, then sub-regional
then national + have ICNDT MRA 1 signatories (ICNDT Main Members) in each country5) Initiate an African MRA (Mutual recognition agreement) once (4) is established, and link to International
community via ICNDT.
6) AFNDT Conference 2019 / 2020 - Morocco

ACTION LIST / 2018 OBJECTIVES
Objective: The intent of this effort is to represent a fully ‘operational’ African Federation for NDT at the 2020
World Conference in South Korea, and hopefully to have a large contingent from Africa presenting
papers and participating in the event. :Operational refers to the following
1)

Registered commercial entity2)

Website3)

Generating funds – either self generating / sponsorships

4)

Addressing ICNDT fees and ensure payment for all members

5)

All 54 countries represented in AFNDT (currently only 16 countries)

6)

Quarterly meetings – teleconference + 1 annual AGM

7)

Regional action plan & strategy

QUALIFICATION & CERTIFICATION ACTIVITIES
Qualification and Certification of NDT personnel I mainly performed according ISO 9712 and ASNT SNT-TC-1A,
with limited local personnel involved in inspections (except in South Africa)
Main PCB’s / Certification schemes active in Africa:
1)

BINDT

2)

COFREND

3)

SAIW Certification

PCN

SAQCC-NDT

Harold Jansen – AFNDT Executive Secretary
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Regional Report at ICNDTReport of APFNDTAsia Pacific Federation for Non-Destructive Testingwww.apfndt.org

Dr. Norikazu Ooka
President of APFNDT

14th June 2018
SwedenReport of APFNDT 1. Members of APFNDT 2. Advisory Group Meeting In Singapore, 12th Nov., 2017

 3. Executive Committee & Board Meeting In Singapore, 13th November, 2017

 4. General Assembly Ⅰ＆Ⅱ Meeting In Singapore,14th and 15th, Nov., 2017

1. Members of APFNDTFull Members , 15 societies (2017 ‐ 2020)
AINDT - The Australian Institute for Non Destructive Testing
ASNT - The American Society for NDTChSNDT - The Chinese Society for Non Destructive Testing
CINDE - Canadian Institute for NDE
ISNT - The Indian Society for Non-Destructive Testing
JSNDI - The Japanese Society for Non-Destructive Inspection
KSNT - The Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
MSNT - The Malaysian Society of Non Destructive Testing
NDTSS - Non-Destructive Testing Society (Singapore)*Board Members

Members of APFNDTNZNDTA - New Zealand Nondestructive Testing Association Inc.
RSNTTD - The Russian Society for Non Destructive Testing and Technical
Diagnostics
SNTCT - The Society for Nondestructive Testing and Certification of Taiwan(SNTCT)PSNDT - Philippine Society for Nondestructive Testing, Inc.
AZNDT (Azerbaijan NDT Society) 2017~
SNDT - Society for Non Destructive Testing, Sri Lanka*Board Members

Members of APFNDTAssociate Member, 8 societies (2017 – 2020)
BSNDT ‐ The Bangladesh Society for Non Destructive Testing
ISNDT ‐ Indonesian Society for Non Destructive Testing
MSNDT ‐ Mongolian Society for Non Destructive Testing
PASNT ‐ Pakistan Society for NDT
Under formation ‐ Myanmar Society for Non Destructive Testing
TSNT ‐ Thai Society for Non Destructive Testing
VANDT ‐ Vietnam Association for Non Destructive Testing
SNDT – NDT Board, Sri Lanka

Report of APFNDT

2. Advisory Group Meeting Chairman advised that the Inaugural AG
group had met this week for the very firsttime.
 With Members of the AG as requested by the
President being, known active delegates (allbeing prior APCNDT Presidents):
 2003: Prof. Kwon,
2006: Mr. Dick, 2009: Dr. Ooka,
2013: Dr. Venkatraman

Report of APFNDT
2. Advisory Group Meeting Review of last meeting Report of Present Status in APFNDT






・Membership
・Journal and Newsletters
・Communications & Website
・Operating Procedures・Finances APFNDT Awards

 Report of Strategic plan
 Reports of Task Group ICNDT matter






・Structural Change

Conference matters
・Report on 15th APCNDT Preparation
・Update on 16th APCNDT Preparation
・Advice on bids for 2025

 Tasks for next/new Board meetingReport of APFNDT

2. Advisory Group Meeting Chairman outlined the AG proposals in assisting with ongoing activities: Membership Growth: The whole of the AG were tasked with assisting theMembership TG and driving growth Strategic Plan: Mr. Dick (as General Secretary), would continue with thisactivity as an AG role.
 Education and Training: Dr. Venkatraman agreed to lead this role
 Guidelines for Common Practices: “ALL members were tasked with thismatter”Report of APFNDT
3. Executive Committee & Board Meeting General APFNDT matters Review of Strategic plan
 Reports of Task Groups
 Report of Advisory Group ICNDT matters Conference matters
・Membership
・Journal and Newsletters
・Communications & Website
・Operating Procedures・Finances

・Structural Changes
・ICNDT Press Release・Report on 15th APCNDT Preparation
・Update on 16th APCNDT Preparation
・Advice on bids for 2025

Tasks for next/new Board meetingReport of APFNDT
4. General Assembly Ⅰ Meeting Minutes of the Previous (Mid Term) GA Meeting in Malaysia 2015
 Executive and Board Member Nominations/Introductions
 ICNDT Restructure update
 AFNDT Documentation
・ Constitution・ Operating Procedures・ Strategic Plan

 Financial Reports

・ Income/Expenditure・ Budget for coming year

Reports by APFNDT internal committees and task groups
・Advisory Group Report
・Task Group Reports
・ Asia Pacific Conference Reports

17th APCNDT 2025 Presentations

Report of APFNDT
4. General Assembly Ⅱ Meeting New Members:・Sri Lanka (SNDT)・Philippine’s (PSNDT)・Azerbaijan (ANDT) Executive and Board Member Elections


・President and Vice President
・General Secretary and Treasurer
・ Group One and Group Two Board Members
・Group Three Board Members

 Asia Pacific Conferences
・Report on APCNDT 2017 (Singapore)・Report on APCNDT 2021 (Australia)Report of APFNDTMembers of APFNDT 2017,Singapore

3. APFNDT Executive Committee& Board Meeting
1. 2015 GA Minutes for approval
2. Budget/Finance
Secretariat has included “ALL” expenses being incurred, against financial inputs by JSNDI &membership fees. This would give a more accurate view of the costs of running the Federation.
3. 2017 Election Process
・Executive
・BoardGeneral Secretary and Secretariat to work on a process and voting forms
4. Constitution & OP’s
Secretary general had started the process of comparing these documents for distribution to the
AEC well before the GA for comment & review. With the ICNDT OP’s & new Constitution still tobe ratified in 2018.

3. APFNDT Executive Committee& Board Meeting
5. Strategic Plan
The Strategic Plan Which was completed by general secretary be approved for release as part of
the upcoming GA documentation.
6. APCNDT 2017 progress update
Currently 80 booths have been sold, so they are almost at capacity and reported that there
were 270 Abstracts, with 244 of these unique. Paying Registrations at this time were at 151 asof Aug 18th, however this was growing every day, with in‐excess of 500 hundred participants
expected.
7. Honorary Members/Awards
General Secretary to formally seek nominees for the awards process from Full Member
Societies.
8. Nomination of a new Auditor
General Secretary had received one formal nomination and an email saying new auditor.

3. APFNDT Executive Committee& Board Meeting
9. 2025 APCNDT Bids
Secretariat stated that at as of closing date there were actually four (4) bids received:
ASNT, MSNT, KSNT and ChSNDT
10. Other Business
・APFNDT president requested an Advisory Group Meeting on 12th Nov (1 hour) prior to
the AEC meeting in Singapore.
・The possibility for an APFNDT BOD dinner during APCNDT as was usual was requested.
・ Website Updates: Noted is the need to update the information on the website:
Executive Information
OP’s need to be added
Society information up to date as possible (full member esp)
The bidders for 2025

Report of APFNDTTG1 Membership With no formal report being available, the new Chair gave a brief verbal report advisingof the THREE (3) new members and that their Certificates would be handed out in
SingaporeTG2 APFNDT Journal With the TG meeting planned for the next day, there was nothing to report. However
noted is that there has been no activity thus far.
TG3 Communications and website
 The website had been updated, however with little or no information being passed on,
newsletters were still not getting traction.
TG4 Education and Training The ISNT’s work on display materials and posters was presented . Appearing to be some
impressive work, now available for APFNDT use.
TG5 Certification
 No report, but there would be a meeting in Singapore.
TG6 Standards
 Chairman of TG6 is still recruiting members , therefore the TG was inactive at this point.
But there would be a meeting in Singapore.
Report of APFNDT Board Positions (2017 Election results) : Group One (2 positions) ⇐ two nominees
 Mr. A Mullin (RSNDTT) and Mr. DJ Varde (ISNT) Group Two (Four positions) ⇐ five nominees
 Prof. CH Chiang (SNTCT), Dr. GT Shen (ChSNDT), Dr. MY
Choi (KSNT),Dr. T Ogata (JSNDI)
 Group Three (Two positions) ⇐ three nominees
 Mr. P Wadyalkar (AINDT) and Mr. G Tubrett (CINDE)Report of APFNDTPresident: Dr. N Ooka (JSNDI)
 Vice President: Prof JP Lee (KSNT)

two nominees

 General Secretary: Mr. L Dick (NZNDTA)
 Treasurer: Mr. K Smith (ASNT)

three nominees

 Past President: Dr. B Venkatraman (ISNT)
 16th APCNDT President: Mr. P Grosser (AINDT) Auditor: Mr. SK Babu (NDTSS)

Report of APFNDTReport from 15th APCNDT Progress (Singapore 2017) The 15th APCNDT is hosted by the Non‐destructive TestingSociety (Singapore) from the 13th to 17th November 2017
 Participants: 80% Foreign Delegates, from 42 Countries, 80
Exhibition Booths, and as of 11th Nov 654 Registered Delegates(without Day Registrations).



The conference was successfully completed.

Report of APFNDTAwards and Honorary Membership Recognition of Outstanding Voluntary Effort in NDT Award:
Dr. Brian Stephen Wong NDTSS, Dr. David Chu (SNTCT) APFNDT Award: Mr. Thiam Siong Sze (NDTSS),
Dr. Takamasa Ogata (on behalf of JSNDI)APFNDT Distinguished Service Award: Mr. John Maccarone (AINDT) APFNDT Travel Award: Mr. Aswin Haridas (Singapore Student) Honorary Membership: Mr. Sajeesh K Babu (NDTSS)

Report of APFND
AG members

Honorary Member(Mr. Babu)Report of APFNDT2025 APCNDT Bids
At as of closing date there were actually four (4) bids received:
ASNT, MSNT, KSNT and ChSNDT⇩ The winning bid was to be the ASNT, would host the 2025
event in Hawaii
 APCNDT 2021 , Melbourne Australlia
 WCNDT 2020, Soul Korea
 MINDTCE(Malaysian International NDT Conference andExhibition) 2018 in conjunction with APFNST, 12‐13Nov.,Subang
Jaya, Malaysia

Report of APFNDTfrom NDTSS 2017 to AINDT 2020
Schedule on APFNDT Meetings

Year
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021

Event

Place

AEC

Board Meeting General Assembly

WCNDT 2016

Munich

Yes

Yes

No

15th APCNDTSingapore

Yes

Yes

Yes

ECNDT

Gothenburg, Sweden

yes

yes

Regional Event

TBA

Yes

Yes

Yes

WCNDT

Seoul

Yes

Yes

No

16th APCNDTMelbourne

Yes

Yes

Yes

Report of APFNDTThank you for your attention!

Brief report to the ICNDT from the ICNDT’s Working Group 6

Condition Monitoring Conferences
WCNDT 2020
WG6 in collaboration with the ISCM is doing an intensive preparation for
WCNDT 2020; this was discussed several times with the ICNDT Chair via
email.
The agreed plan is to organize:multiple CM structured sessions
invited overview presentations related to hot topics for CM
workshops and seminars
publication of the best CM papers from the WCNDT in theInternational Journal of CM and the best case studies in theInternational Newsletter Condition Monitor

The Second World Congress on CM, 2021
WG 6 is doing an intensive preparation for WCCM 2021; this was discussed
several times with the ICNDT Chair via emails.

 CM/NDT publications
WG6 agreed about preparation of a special issue of the International Journalof CM to cover CM/NDT topic, an issue will appear in 2019
WG 6 was involved in publication of the best CM papers from the WCNDT2016 and WCCM 2017 in the International Journal of CM
WG 6 was involved in publication of the best CM case studies from the
WCNDT 2016 in the International Newsletter Condition Monitor
Secretariat: The British Institute of NDT, Newton Building, St George’s Avenue, Northampton NN2 6JB UK
Tel: +44 1604 89 3811 Fax: +44 1604 89 3861 Email: icndt@bindt.org
The ICNDT is registered as a legalised Association with its seat in Vienna, Austria.

 CM/NDT Continuing Professional Development
WG6 is organizing CPD related to CM/NDT in Nottingham, at CM/MFPT 2018

 CM/NDT joint grant application with ICNDT/ISCM
involvement as dissemination partners (e.g. Horizon 2020,
etc.)
WG 6 is planning to make H2020 grant application with the ISCM as a Partner;
the deadline is Nov 2018

 Joint CM/NDT cross‐forums
WG6 was involved in planning a plenary keynote lecture in Nottingham at
CM/MFPT 2018 that will combine CM/SHM/NDT topics
WG6 is involved in organizing “invited overview speakers” covering
CM/SHM/NDT at CM/MFPT 2018

 ICNDT award related to CM/NDT cross activity
The Co‐Chairs of the WG6 are planning to prepare a draft of T&C for an award CM/NDT higher education
WG6 made cycle of lectures at Gdansk Polytechnic University, Poland,
related to CM and NDT. The second cycle of lectures related to signal
processing for CM and NDT in the same University is underway.
The next WG 6 meeting in person will be in Nottingham, at CM/MFPT 2018
Co‐Chairs of the WG 6
Len Gelman and Cesar Belinco

SECRETARIAT OF ISO/TC 135/SC 7
NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING - PERSONNEL QUALIFICATIONCANADA (SCC)

Ms. Jennifer Jimenez
International Secretary
Canadian General Standards Board
Tel: (873) 469-3225
Fax: (819) 956-5740
Gatineau, Canada
K1A 1G6
Email: jennifer.jimenez@tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca

May 28, 2018

ISO/TC 135/SC 7
REPORT OF THE SECRETARIAT
ISO/TC 135/SC 7
PERSONNEL QUALIFICATION
1.

Membership

1.1"P" Members (34): Argentina (IRAM), Australia (SA), Austria (ASI), Belgium(NBN), Brazil (ABNT), Canada (SCC), China (SAC), Czech Republic (UNMZ),
Finland (SFS), France (AFNOR), Germany (DIN), Hungary (MSZT), India (BIS),
Indonesia (BSN), Iran, Islamic Republic of (ISIRI), Italy (UNI), Japan (JISC),
Kazakhstan (KAZMEMST), Korea, Republic of (KATS), Malaysia (DSM),
Netherlands (NEN), Norway (SN), Philippines (BPS), Poland (PKN), Romania(ASRO), Russian Federation (GOST R), South Africa (SABS), Spain (UNE),
Sweden (SIS), Switzerland (SNV), Ukraine (DSTU), United Kingdom (BSI),
United States (ANSI), Zimbabwe (SAZ).

1.2“O” Members (10): Bulgaria (BDS), Colombia (ICONTEC), Croatia (HZN),
Denmark (DS), Kenya (KEBS), New Zealand (NZSO), Portugal (IPQ), Slovakia(SOSMT), Sri Lanka (SLSI), Thailand (TISI).

1.3

Leadership:
CanadaMr. Darcy Corcoran – International Chair pending outcome of TC 135 CIB ballot
Ms. Jennifer Jimenez – International Secretary
Ms. Sharon Bond – International Chair now retired

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Liaisons

2.1

Internal:
ISO/TC 17/SC 19 – Steel -Technical delivery conditions for steel tubes forpressure purposes
ISO/TC 108/SC 5 - Condition monitoring and diagnostics of machines
ISO/CASCO – Committee on conformity assessment

2.2

External:
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
International Committee for Non-Destructive Testing (ICNDT)

3.

ISO International Standards published
ISO 9712:2012 Non-destructive testing -- Qualification and certification of NDT
personnel **new edition work currently underway as a result of the lastsystematic review
ISO/TS 11774:2011 Non-destructive testing -- Performance-based qualification**confirmed in 2016
ISO 18490:2015 Non-destructive testing -- Evaluation of vision acuity of NDT
personnel
ISO 20807:2004 Non-destructive testing -- Qualification of personnel for limited
application of non-destructive testing **confirmed in 2014
ISO/TS 22809:2007 Non-destructive testing -- Discontinuities in specimens foruse in qualification examinations **confirmed in 2014

4.

Work items

4.1

ISO/TS 25107 Non-destructive testing -- Guidelines for NDT training syllabuses**approved for publication by SC7, at ISO for editing
ISO/TS 25108 Non-destructive testing -- Guidelines for NDT personnel training
organizations **approved for publication by SC7, at ISO for editing
ISO/NP TS 21759 Non-Destructive testing -- Guidelines for training, qualificationand certification of non-destructive testing engineers (coordinator) **moved to TC
135 for further development work

4.2

Working groups:
Working Group 9 – Revision of training guidelines

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