Minutes of a meeting of the
ICNDT General AssemblyInternet Meeting
Monday 19th July 2021
Participants:

S K Babu
B Alves
G Aufricht
M Carboni
T Chady
J ConteT Erhard
S Choksi
L DickP Fisch
A Garcia
D Gilbert
F Gomez
G Idinger
H Jansen
J Jingyuan
Ik Keun Park
A Mullin
B Muthuramlaingam
G Nicolescu
N OokaT Sakagami
V Syasko
P Trampus
G Tubrett
P Wadyalkar
C Wassink

ICNDT Chair
Voting
RELACRE (Portugal)
Voting
ICNDT Treasurer
VotingAIPND (Italy)
VotingPTBNIDT/SIMP (Poland)
VotingABENDI (Brazil)
VotingDGZFP (Germany)
VotingISNT (India)
VotingNZNDT (New Zealand) and APFNDT
Voting
SGZP (Switzerland)
Voting
AAENDE (Argentina)
Voting
BINDT (UK) and ICNDT General Sec
Voting
AEND (Spain) and EFNDT
VotingÖGFZP (Austria)
VotingSAIW (South Africa), ICEC Chair and AFNDT Voting
ChSNDT (China)
Voting
KSNT President (South Korea)
Voting
ICNDT WG1 Chair and EFNDT
Voting
NDTSS (Singapore)
Voting
ARoENd (Romania)
VotingJSNDI (Japan) and APFNDT
VotingJSNDI (Japan)
VotingRSNTTD (Russia)
VotingMAROVISZ (Hungary)
Voting
CNDE (Canada)
VotingAINDT (Australia)
VotingKINT (Netherlands)
VotingC Belinco
C BirdY Cho
J M Farley
O KwonP Milligan
T Ogata
S OokaC Rizzetti
O SohnD I Yoon
C Bailey

AAENDE (Argentina) and PANNDTICNDT ICEC Secretary
KSNT/WCNDT President
ICNDT Past Chair
KSNT (South Korea)
AINDT (Australia)
JSNDI (Japan)
JSNDI (Japan)
AIPND (Italy)
KSNT (South Korea)
KSNT (South Korea)
BINDT (Minute Secretary)

Non-Voting
Non-Voting
Non-Voting
Non-Voting
Non-Voting
Non-Voting
Non-Voting
Non-Voting
Non-Voting
Non-Voting
Non-Voting
Non-Voting

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1.

Welcome and Opening Remarks
S Babu welcomed all to the online General Assembly. This was the second virtual GA and S Babu waspleased to be in the BINDT office in Northampton with D Gilbert. Dr Babu said that hopefully by next year
we will be able to start holding physical meetings again. The agenda for the meeting had been circulatedwith the meeting invitation.
Dr Babu continued: Although we are miles apart we continue to work together on one ICNDT mission tocreate a safer world through wider use of NDT and diagnostic technologies. Throughout the pandemic wehave learnt that nobody is safe until everyone is safe.
ICNDT activities continued throughout the pandemic and we have embraced new technologies to adapt tothis ‘new normal’ way of working.
Our Annual Meeting was held on the 11th February 2021 and the Annual Report was approved. Since
then we have had several ICNDT meetings and ad hoc meetings with KSNT. Unfortunately we expect afurther postponement of the WCNDT (AFTERNOTE: now 30 May – 3 June 2022).
S Babu was pleased to announce that the new ICNDT website will be launched today and will be
introduced to members during this GA. Congratulations were relayed to S Ooka and WG4.
With reference to the resolutions made prior to the last GA in respect of terms of office, it was agreed thatthe current terms of office will continue until the physical GA.
We will be holding a workshop this year to discuss the ICNDT strategy which will be reported on later inthe meeting.
NDT instrument manufacturers have embraced various connectivity technologies and Big Data solutions
are also in place with Cloud based service providers. AI based NDT tools are initiated by academic
research worldwide but there are challenges ahead in the validation and verification of these new tools interms of performance and the need to continue to have the human interface. The new version of ISO
9712 is paving the way to include elements of new technologies associated with NDE 4.0 and we alsoneed to consider a certification model to include NDE 4.0.
We look forward to hearing reports from participants during this GA.
On a proposal by P Wadyalkar, seconded by G Aufricht, the Minutes of the GA held on 31 July 2020 wereapproved.

2.

Memoriam
D Gilbert reported that Prof Mihovski passed away recently. He was prominent in the development of
NDT in Bulgaria, a graduate from LETI and gained a professorship in 1991. Prof Mihovski introduced alaboratory dedicated to the mechanics and diagnostics of NDT. He had a close association with the
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He was a member of Academia NDT and a member of Insight’s
European Advisory Panel. He was said to have been involved in the education and training of more than
2,500 NDT technicians and will be sorely missed.
Eduard Stepanovich Gorkunov passed away last October and his long service to the Russian Society of
NDT and Technical Diagnostics (RSNTTD) was acknowledged. He was also a member of the Editorial
Board of the journal ‘NDT Days’ published by the Bulgarian Society of NDT and the author of many
papers. He was also a member of Academia NDT and the Israeli National Society for NDT and an
Associate Member of the Institute of Mechanics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. His contribution
to the development of cooperation between the Russian Federation and Bulgaria was recognised when he
was awarded Bulgarian citizenship in 2020.
Dr Hae Lee passed away in December 2020. He was a former President of the Korean Institute ofMachinery and Materials and a former President of KSNT. Dr Lee was one of the founding members forthe inauguration of KSNT in 1980. Besides his tenure as President of KSNT for two terms in the early
1990s, he was instrumental in bringing KSNT activities to the international arena. Dr Lee’s contributions
to the nation include his role as Commissioner of the Nuclear Safety and Security Commission and othergovernmental positions, all of which led to him being honoured with the Peony Medal, the second highest
order of civil merit in Korea.

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3.

Roll Call and Brief Introductions
Participants introduced themselves and confirmed if they were a voting or non-voting participant.

4.

Procedures for voting, confirmation of quorum
D Gilbert confirmed that the GA was quorate.

5.

ICNDT business
5.1

Report on Annual Meeting

Finance 2020
G Aufricht reported that the Annual Report was presented and approved at the Annual Meeting earlier thisyear. In 2020 we had an opening balance of €125,503 and a final balance (allocation to reserves) of€133,260. Income from membership fees was €18,552 and we also received some interest from thebank. We had income from the MRA service of €6,600. Total income was €151,167. We had
expenditure associated with the MRA of €8,640 and professional services expenditure of €7,640. Total
expenditure was €17,907.
Draft Budget for 2021
The budget for 2021 was presented showing an opening balance of €133,260.
Following the new membership fee structure, we expect €22,792 income from membership fees,
income for the PCBs service of €6,000 and MRA service fees income of €8,000. Income for EQB
product application and update fees has been budgeted at €8,100.
On the expenditure side, meeting expenses, printing costs, office costs, PCB service costs, MRA/PCB
audit costs, EQB service costs are €2,000 and professional service costs have been budgeted at €8,000.
Supplies (badges, flags etc.) miscellaneous (shipping, conference calls) are budgeted at €2,500 and thecost of the website upgrade is €25,000.
Total projected income is €45,422 and total projected expenditure is €53,250 with an allocation toreserves expected by 31/12/21 would be €125,432.
The draft balance at the end of June 2021 shows total expenditure of €2701 against budgeted expenditureof €53,000. The reason being that we have had a very quiet year so far but this may change in thesecond half of the year. We also had income of €1500 for MRA services which will be added to thebalance. We therefore have a very good budget and we had the money to invest in the new website andfor the excellent service provided by Colin Bird for the ICEC and the MRA.
5.2

Notification of Operating Procedures issued since last GA

M Farley reported that OP11 was approved at the Annual Meeting. OP11 is the Operating Procedure forMembership and it has been modified to make it absolutely clear that if you are a member of ICNDT (Fullor Associate) you will automatically be a member of a Regional Federation at the same status. The
application should come through a Regional Federation. The changes were approved unanimously in
February and the application form has also been amended.
6.

Reports from Regions
6.1

AFNDT

The report presented by H Jansen is attached.
6.2

APFNDTThe report presented by N Ooka is attached.

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6.3

EFNDT

The report presented by F Gomez is attached. F Gomez confirmed that the ECNDT has been postponed
to 3-7 July 2023.
6.4

PANNDTThe report presented by J Conte is attached.
7.

Reports from National Societies
Reports will appear on the website in due course.
7.1

Argentina

The report was presented by A Garcia. S Babu asked about the Arts Conference in November
2021 and whether this will be physical event or whether it will be mixed with limited places inside thevenue and the majority of delegates online. A Garcia replied that it will depend on the Covid situation in
November.
7.2

China

The report was presented by J Jinguan. With regard to the WCNDT, Y Cho thanked the Chinese
Society for their strong support in terms of number of exhibitors and participants; China will have thelargest representation at the event. China has contributed about 25% in terms of booths, abstracts etc.
and we will continue to collaborate closely to make the WCNDT a success. Y Cho is planning to give aplenary presentation at the Opening Ceremony of the Chinese Society’s conference in August.
7.3

Hungary

The report was presented by P Trampus.
The pandemic has severely influenced the activities of the Hungarian Society. Normal routine activities
are ongoing though slower and in limited scope. P Trampus reported that the conference and exhibition
which is normally held every second year was delayed until March this year when it was held very
successfully as a virtual conference and exhibition.
With regard to supporting higher education, an English version of the NDT Integrity Engineer course isbeing discussed and will hopefully be available from February next year.
F Gomez asked about the NDT Integrity Engineer and the NDT Engineer and asked what the difference
was. P Trampus replied that the NDT Integrity Engineer is in addition to the NDT Engineer related issues.
M Farley congratulated P Trampus for creating this course. It would be interesting to have a matrix tocompare the Integrity Engineer against the NDT Engineer qualification that is being prepared by EFNDT.
This would be a good activity for EFNDT and P Trampus will consider this.
7.4

Italy

The report was presented by M Carboni. M Carboni was pleased to report that AIPND moved
to new premises in June 2021.
7.5

India

The report was presented by S Choksi. S Choksi was pleased to report that Dr Babu has beenpresented with an Honorary Fellow award from ISNT.
ISNT would be very happy and privileged to host the 22nd WCNDT in 2028 and the ISNT report included ashort presentation of what ISNT would promise to do for the 22nd WCNDT.
7.6

Japan

The report was presented by T Sakagami. JSNDI will be celebrating its 70th anniversary on 26th
October 2022 and it is hoped that the celebration will take place as part of the JSNDI annual conference.

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7.7

Netherlands

The report was presented by C Wassink. The KSNT conference is scheduled to take place inNovember this year and the intention is to hold this as an in-person event. The language will be Dutch but
contributions in English are welcome.
7.8

RussiaThe report was presented by V Syasko. RSNTTD will also be bidding to host WCNDT 2028 in
St Petersburg.
7.9

Singapore

The report was presented by B Muthuramalingam.
7.10

United Kingdom

The report was presented by D Gilbert.
Having listened to all of the presentations, S Babu summarised that our resilience to move to a new way
of working has been the same all over the world in respect of certification, membership, conferences etc.
We have all had to move to a digital world very quickly. However, we look forward to the middle of next
year when hopefully the boarders will be open and we can look forward to physical meetings again.
P Wadyalkar asked D Gilbert about the PCN electronic certificates instead of the traditional paper version
and asked if BINDT was planning for this process to be completely digital. D Gilbert explained that thesystem we have at the moment is an encrypted, watermarked PDF certificate which is protected using a
Digital Rights Management (DRM) system and we can control the status of this software. We are also
starting to use DRM for electronic publications but this may have different settings. It is a web delivery
system and we can control the number of times that a certificate is printed, as well as the number ofdevices and times that it can be viewed.
P Wadyalkar asked if any other societies were planning to use a system whereby people cannot take ascreen shot or print a certificate off in order to stop any falsifying of certificates. S Babu believe industry
was not yet ready for such a system.
8.

20th World Conference Update by KSNTY Cho thanked C Belinco and the Argentinian Society for their understanding of KSNT’s situation.
Y Cho did not want to be overly optimistic or pessimistic but wanted to be as realistic as possible inreporting the details to the GA.
The WCNDT has already been postponed twice and is currently scheduled be held in the spring of 2022
but at a different venue outside of Seoul. When ECNDT was postponed to July 2023, KSNT started toprepare for another alternative option given that the pandemic is still ongoing. The next couple of months
could be a game changer for KSNT.
The current registration statistics for the WCNDT were presented. Even though we have postponed theevent twice, we have only lost about 10% of bookings and we are still holding 90% of conference sessions
and exhibitors bookings which is very good news. The problem is that it is not guaranteed that all of thesebookings will remain in place. We have a total of 1137 abstracts and 340 exhibitors. We have 25
sponsors, most of which are domestic Korean companies, but Olympus is continuing as the main sponsor.
We are keeping a very close dialogue with the other main sponsors and exhibitors.
After the decision was made to move ECNDT to July 2023, KSNT decided to move the WCNDT by threemonths to early June next year. KSNT will be keeping a close eye on the pandemic situation but will haveto make a final decision by the end of 2021 as to whether the WCNDT will be held in June 2022 or, if not,where and when it will take place.
2023 is already full with three different regional events (APFNDT, PANNDT and ECNDT) and there will
also be the ASNT conference in the autumn. Therefore, if the pandemic is still going on by the end of thisyear, we would need to delay WCNDT for a further two years. We would look to place WCNDT sometime

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in 2024, preferably June, and we would have to reshuffle every contract because the situation may bevery different to the two previous postponements.
This is a very delicate situation but KSNT is still doing its best to try not to disappoint anyone.
V Syasko asked if KSNT will take into account the fact that papers that had been submitted in 2019 may
be out of date. Y Cho confirmed that authors will have the opportunity to update their presentations.
Y Cho reiterated that KSNT want to delay making a final decision as long as possible to take into accountother issues and other societies conferences.
There is a small chance that KSNT could delay the WCNDT for a further three months instead of anothertwo years but the problem is that it is such a big event and it is a massive challenge to find a venue andblock enough hotel rooms for more than 1000 guests. We also have to deal with the main sponsors andexhibitors.
KSNT has found another option for September 2022 in Pusan which has an excellent conference facility
and has a slot available for the last week of September 2022. Unfortunately there is no other availability
for the rest of 2022 at the original venue.
9.

Officers and Secretariat for 2021-2022
S Babu thanked BINDT for the continued support in providing the secretariat and looking after thebusiness of the ICNDT.
S Babu thanked IEC members for their continued support for a further year. We have not received any
official resignations so IEC members will continue to be active until the GA at the World Conference.
Working Group chairs were thanked and it was noted that WG1 is still very active with online meetings.

10.

Membership Update
J Conte thanked all members of the Membership Committee for their continued support. 55% of ICNDT
members are from Europe, 27% from Asia Pacific, 12% from America and 6% from Africa. Challenges
due to the pandemic included collection of individual fees and activities. We have standby plans to
support Nigeria, Bolivia, Venezuela, Chile and Ecuador through the process of being a member of ICNDTand PANNDT. We are also supporting the Dominican Republic in creating a NDT Society.

11.

Report on ICNDT actions on Strategic Plan
11.1 Strategic Plan Workshop by IAC
M Farley (IAC Chair) presented plans for the Strategic Plan Workshop. There have been no meetings ofthe IAC due to the WCNDT not yet being held. We need to rewrite our plan to recognise the impact andopportunities of Covid etc. and we need to introduce new blood onto the ICNDT committees. We areplanning to hold an open workshop to explore ideas that can be incorporated into the next Strategic Plan.
This will be followed with a sub-group meeting of members of the IAC and their nominees to prepare a
new draft plan which then go through the normal review process.
The programme for the workshop will be a two-hour Zoom meeting starting with a reminder of our
objectives. Attendees will be invited to report on innovations that have been necessary. We will then note
which innovations deserve attention by the ICNDT, for example, how the use of virtual meetings can help
to create new societies. We will then discuss other ideas for ICNDT to action and then organise IAC
meetings to update the plan accordingly.
This will be an open workshop held either in the middle of August or the middle of September and thesecretariat will issue invitations to all members. IAC sub-group meetings will then be held in October/
November 2021. The target date for the draft Strategic Plan is 30th November 2021 with approval at theAnnual Meeting at the end of January/February 2022.
11.2 Launch of Website and Communications Update
M Farley was honoured and privileged to launch the new ICNDT website today. He has opened
conferences, exhibitions and buildings but this was the first time he has opened a new website.

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WG1 have updated the website with the objective of creating a much more visually attractive website thatis much easier to use. Thanks were extended to JSNDI who will be hosting the new website. Thanks
were also extended to DGZfP for hosting the website for many years and T Erhard was asked to pass on
our thanks to M Purschke and S Cullmann.
The presentations that we have seen today from the National Societies have shown that we are vigorous
organisations and we have had a tremendous reaction to the pandemic. M Farley requested that thesepresentations are uploaded to the new website.
S Ooka thanked everyone for their contributions, particularly S Babu who started this idea as one of theStrategic Plan objectives. He also thanked M Farley for his assistance and D Gilbert for his support andalso the team at JSNDI who have been putting a lot of effort into the new website. JSNDI will bemaintaining the website and they would welcome any comments from around the world as to how to
improve the website further.
AFTERNOTE: On behalf of ICNDT D Gilbert wishes to record thanks to Zoe White and Cindy Bailey from
BINDT for their work in updating and maintaining the previous version of the website.
The new website will include a membership fee collecting system. APFNDT will start to use this system ina couple of months’ time and then hopefully PANNDT, AFNDT and EFNDT will also pay their fees throughthe website.
S Ooka is planning some YouTube presentations on how to use the new website which will include the feecollecting system and how to register society information etc.
M Farley pointed out that some of the events in the calendar are out of date and will need to be updated.
P Wadyalkar commented that online webinars have been successful in terms of attendance and asked if
there would be a section on the website whereby societies can register their events with a link for people
around the world to register and attend. S Ooka confirmed that this can be done.
Communications
S Ooka presented the report (copy attached) and thanked D Gilbert for his support.
The ICNDT journal has been issued four times a year.
The ICNDT website has been launched with contributions from DGZfP and JSNDI.
Social media activity, Facebook, LinkedIn etc. has been quite slow but once the website has been
completed this will be the next project that S Ooka will be working on.
With regard to the photographic competition, because the WCNDT has been postponed, the updated
competition has been launched entitled ‘NDT Stories in Pictures’. The deadline for entries has been
postponed to 30 November 2021 but this really depends on the WCNDT as the winner will receive freeregistration. We have received about 12 entries so far and S Ooka asked for anyone interested to send intheir photos.
The new website will include
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Real time information on ICNDT activities.
Real time information on events around the world.
‘My Page’ for society members - coming soon.
Society status – coming soon.
ICNDT membership fee collection service – coming soon.
And much more, i.e. reports from all organisations as to what is going on with theirconferences, webinars etc.

S Babu thanked all for their contributions to the working group activities.
D Gilbert mentioned that there will be an email going out shortly for invitations to contribute to the next
ICNDT journal. The deadline will be 16th August 2021.
11.3 WG1 Report (NDT Qualification & Certification
A Mullin reported that WG1 has 23 members representing countries all over the world. Meetings will beheld in conjunction with the European or World Conference and an online meeting was held on 21 April.
The WG1 Action Plan forms part of the main Strategic Plan.

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Current information on the WG1 needs to be uploaded to the new website. D Gilbert also pointed out that
the MRAs do not seem to be on the new website. Any comments for areas to be updated should be sent
to S Ooka. C Bird will also need to load the MRA Schedule 1 and Schedule 2 status to the website.
S Babu asked all WG chairs to look at their objectives on the new website and asked all to send any
comments of anything that is missing to S Ooka.
Action Ref.
No.
GA/2021-07-19/..
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Desc.

WHO

Look at WG objectives on
the new website and send
any comments to S Ooka.

WG Chairs

STATUS/COMPLETE BY
Ongoing.

11.4 Certification Executive Council Report
H Jansen presented the attached report. There are 47 societies under MRA schedule 1 and 20 PCBs
registered under Schedule 2 with 1 further application in progress. A new surveillance system has been
introduced. Recent new registrants include Chinese Taiwan and Korea. China renewed in 2020 andthere is a new application in process from India.
H Jansen gave an update on the EQB and advised that this is currently available as a stand-alone
package. However, during recent meetings of the ICEC, there has been concern that the EQB is not
regularly updated and some of the questions might be out of date. We have also identified problems withthe maintenance of the EQB and the update of questions to reflect the current standards. We are
currently considering an alternative provision option without contravening the non-profit status of the
ICEC.
S Babu reported that IAEA has recently sent a questionnaire to all of the participating RCA/ARCAL
members to get more feedback on ISO 9712 and he has seen a number of questions related to the
ICNDT MRA. We hope that more PCBs will become members of MRA Schedule 2.
11.5 WG3 Report (Research & Education Committee including SIG)
A copy of the report presented by T Erhard is attached.
A virtual NDE 4.0 conference was held on the 14th and 15th April and a further physical event is plannedfor 20th and 21st April 2022. Presentations from the virtual event are available on the website and will be
published in a future issue of the Journal on NDE. This was a worldwide virtual event and most of theparticipants were from Germany and Japan.
The next NDE 4.0 event will be held in Munich on 26th – 28th April 2022 and the abstract deadline is end of
September 2021. The situation in Germany is currently looking encouraging for face to face events.
The next meeting of the SIG NDE 4.0 group will be on the 27th August. The SIG Reliability Group has
updated its action plan.
11.6 WG5 Report (Radiation Protection)
D Gilbert reported that the main subject for this group is the ISEMIR Project which is supported by the
IAEA. The industrial radiation side of the project is a web-based tool for NDT companies who carry out
industrial radiography to use for regular data collection and analysis.
There is an impetus to promote ISEMIR more and WG5 consists of ISEMIR members. We havepreviously invited others to join WG5 and we have had interest from Dr E Malto (Netherlands) and Dr
Tuberoso (Italy). We would like to see more people interested in joining the group. The intention has
always been to have a meeting at the WCNDT. Face to face meetings are easier when we are trying toestablish a group so we will be planning a meeting and possible workshop at WCNDT. Anyone who has
contacts or represents any other societies who would like to join WG4, were asked to please let D Gilbertknow.

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We have developed two questionnaires, one for companies and one for regulatory bodies and over the
past few months we have received 284 responses from 42 countries. Some of the questions asked were
presented. It was noted that accidents and incidents remain low.
A relatively small number of people were aware of the ISEMIR project, which is quite disappointing.
People would be interested in ISEMIR software for dose reporting, analysis and recording.
45 completed questionnaires were received from regulatory bodies, with the majority coming from Europe.
11.7 WG6 Report (Condition Monitoring)
The report presented from C Belinco is attached.
ISO/ TC135
S Ooka reported on the activities over the last year and presented the ISO/TC135A structure. Last year,
membership of TC135 was made up of 40 participating members and 28 observing members. This year
we have 35 participating members and 4 observing members.
Liaison with other organisations was presented and it was noted that ICNDT is a Liaison A member.
The activity report of ISO standards under development or published was presented.
With regard to future plans, the TC135 meeting, planned for the WCNDT in 2020, has been postponed but
will be held in October this year. We are planning this as a virtual meeting although there is a problem
with time differences. Hopefully in 2022 we will have a meeting during the WCNDT and another meeting
during ECNDT in 2023.
With regard to the virtual meeting planned for October this year, Y Cho advised that he has received anemail from the German Society regarding an online meeting on 12th October and suggested that part ofthis meeting could be the TC135 meeting. S Ooka replied that this really depends on the secretariat as towhat time they want to start their meetings but he intends to hold the plenary meeting at around 11pm inorder for everyone to be able to attend. The other TCs can choose where they are in the world as to whattime they want to hold their meetings.
Y Cho will keep S Ooka updated on the plan for any postponement of the WCNDT.
The TC135 business plan has been finished and has been updated on the website.
12.

Regional Conference Update12.1 APCNDT, Melbourne 2023
P Wadyalkar reported that the Asia Pacific conference is still scheduled for 20 February – 3 March 2023 in
Melbourne. Paul Grosser is the Conference President. There is a lot of accommodation in all price ranges
around the conference venue and the temperature in March is around 20oC.
Y Cho wished P Wadyalkar every success with the APNDT event. Nobody can predict when the
pandemic will be over and he asked for P Wadyalker’s personal opinion as to how many more months
they would need to finalise their schedule for spring 2023 (for example to secure hotel bookings andexhibition facilities). Y Cho suggested that they may want to also consider making a final announcementin case we have to think about delaying WCNDT again, in order to avoid any time conflict between
WCNDT and APNDT.
P Wadyalkar said that any changes to WCNDT should be discussed with the AINDT. They intend to go
ahead with their schedule regardless of whether there is any postponement but there are a lot of things
that can be discussed together to make this easer for everyone. It is important that we all talk to eachother so as not to overlap and to have sufficient time between the two events.
12.2 ECNDT, Lisbon 2023
B Alves reported that the Portuguese Society have had several meetings regarding a postponement due
to the pandemic and have opted for the new dates in July 2023, with the same venue, same city etc. Allof the information is on the website.

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S Ooka asked if it would be possible to host a TC135 meeting during the ECNDT. B Alves replied that it
had been anticipated that all of the meetings scheduled for 2022 would be transferred to 2023 and thesehave all been accommodated for.
12.3 PANNDTG Tubrett reported that they are waiting to see when all of the other conferences will move to and will lookat moving their event so as not to conflict with other events in 2023. This will be discussed further when
the other events have been confirmed but will be scheduled so as not to clash with ECNDT or WCNDT.
13.

Constitution & Proposed Amendments (Approval next meeting)
We expect to have a physical GA at the WCNDT next year and S Babu confirmed that the existing officers
will remain in place until then.

14.

AOB/Adjournment
S Babu asked for support and contributions to the Strategic Plan workshop and asked all to contact
M Farley. We have learnt a lot of lessons over the last 18 months which may result in some amendments
to our constitution.
M Farley commented regarding BINDT Branches. We have about 10 Branches in the UK and they eachhave about 4-5 meetings a year with normal attendance of around 10 members. However, since holding
these meetings virtually, attendance has greatly improved and there is real enthusiasm for Branchmeetings on Zoom. This is an example that other societies may want to copy; it is very easy to holdvirtual meetings and it makes it easier to have meetings in countries where people have difficulties withtravel or to have meetings between NDT societies in areas where there are travel difficulties. The
presentations today have given us a lot of enthusiasm; societies are working in different ways because of
the pandemic and these things should be captured.
S Babu closed the meeting and thanked all for their participation.

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Draft Balance 30.06.2021
Income 2021€

133.260,12Opening balance
Donation from Austrian Chamber ofCommerce
00,00
Donation from WCNDT
00,00
Members fee (new fee structure)
6,59Bank account Nr.: 290-317-99501 interest
00,00
PCB CA service: OP 20
1500,00
MRA Service: OP1900,00
EQB Product: Application fees OP23
00.00
EQB update fees OP23
Meeting expenses/Go to meetings
Bank account Nr.: 290-317-99501 cost
Bank expenditure for incoming fees
Printing costs
Office costs
PCB CA service costs: systemadministration, insurance, OP20
MRA/PCB: Auditorpayment OP19
EQB Service costs: Administration and overheads, contingencies. OP23
Professional Service
Preparation of ICNDT Monographs
Supplies (ICNDT badges, flags, a.o.)Miscellaneous (shipping, conference calls)
Proposed website upgrade
Total
134.766,71
Allocation to reserves
132 065,66

Expenditure
2021€

Budget 2021

Income 2021€

Expenditure2021

133.260,12
500,0000,00
101,05
00,00
00,00
00,00
320,0000,00
22.792,00
30,00
6.000,00
8.000,00
7.500,00
600,00€1.500,00
200,0050,00
2.000,00
2.000,00
2.000,00

1600,00
00,00

8.000,00
2.000,00

680,00
0,00
00,00
00,00

8.000,00
0,00
2.000.00
500,0025.000,00
53.250,00

2.701,05

178.682,12
125.432,12

2 Pending fees 1.400.Gerhard Aufricht, treasurer, Vienna,
2021.07.11 Rev.1
Registered office: The Austrian Society of NDT, Jochen Rindt Straße 33, 1230 Wien/Austria
Email: office@oegfzp.at; Email: treasurer@icndt.org
Secretariat: The British Institute of NDT, 1 Spencer Parade, Northampton NN1 5AA, UK
Tel: +44 1604 630124 Fax: +44 1604 231489 Email: icndt@bindt.org

Regional Report from the African
Federation of Non-Destructive TestingCompiled & presented by: Harold Jansen
AFNDT Executive Secretary

Content

 Membership Infrastructure Activities
 Achievements
 Challenges

MembershipPresident :Dr Sahaimi Kamal Morocco
Centre National de l’Energie des Sciences & des Techniques Nucléaires

Secretariat:

Harold Jansen

South Africa

SAIW



Country (Active) Representation:
Algeria; Angola; Cameroon; Egypt; Ethiopia; Ghana; Kenya; Libya; Mauritius;
Morocco; Nigeria; South Africa; Sudan; Tunisia; Uganda; Zambia; ZimbabweSub-regions:– North Africa

Algeria, Libya, (Mauritania), Morocco, Egypt and Tunisia– East Africa

Sudan, Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Eretria, Somalia, South Sudan and
Uganda– Central Africa

Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo,
Equatorial Guinea, Sao Tomi and Gabon– West Africa

Ghana; Benin; Burkina Faso; Cape Verde; Gambia; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau;
Ivory Coast; Liberia; Mali; Niger; Nigeria; Senegal; Sierra Leone and Togo

– Southern Africa South Africa; Angola; Botswana; Lesotho; Madagascar; Malawi; Mauritius;
Mozambique; Namibia; Seychelles; Swaziland; Tanzania; Zambia and Zimbabwe

InfrastructureCertification Schemes
Main Schemes in Africa remains:
1) ASNT SNT-TC-1A Challenges : Written Practice variations inhibit harmonisation
2) ISO 9712
Challenges : Required infrastructure & regulatory environmentResponsible Person
Identify sub regional / national individual or company to initiate NDT interest andcommunication channels

National NDT Societies
Establish National NDT Societies that represent the facilitates industry interaction.
Currently 11 African countries with National NDT societies having various activity levels.



ICNDT Membership
Participation in ICNDT activities a & annual membership fee.
Currently 2 compliant African countries.



ICNDT MRA 1
One MRA Schedule 1 Member per country with additional affiliates if appropriate.
Currently 3 ICNDT MRA Schedule 1 signatories in Africa.

Infrastructure

Approved Training Bodies(ISO TS 25108 & ISO TS 25107 + ANSI/ASNT CP105 & IAEA Tecdoc 628)



Various National Training bodies across Africa, mostly ASNT SNT-TC-1A based.
ISO 9712 options are growing subject to international requirements and thanks to funding
from entities such as IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) with Regional
Development Centres [Francophone : CETIME – Tunisia & Anglophone : SAIW – South
Africa) providing valuable support in this regard.
Most Operational NDT Level 3 / Senior NDT personnel in Africa are thanks to IAEA
initiatives / funding within the region.

Approved Examination Centres (ExC)
ExC’s, required by ISO 9712 & recognised by PCB’s exist in 7 countries but poses thegreatest challenge in establishing National Certification Schemes

Authorised Qualification Bodies / Personnel Certification Bodies(ISO 17024 under scope of ISO 9712)

Only one National PCB registered under ICNDT MRA Schedule 2 in Africa viz. SAIW
Certification. Other international ICNDT MRA Schedule 2 operating PCB’s within the regionis BINDT; TWI & Cofrend.
Strategic approach has been modified from a single regional PCB approach to various
national PCB’s to develop national pride; the challenge remains to be sustainability.

Service Providers (ISO 17020 / ISO 17025)
Major move towards ISO 17020 / ISO 17025 accreditation for service providers performing
inspections on pressurised equipment / steam generators.

Activities


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Communication
A regional communication database has been created based on all individuals involved inregional IAEA-AFRA programmes since inception in 2001.

Organisational
While the intent was to hold an AGM during the first half of 2021, members indicated that
due to regional inactivity, a preliminary to the AGM should be preferable subject toavailability of majority of members, in order to review & discuss proposed constitutionalchanges. Deadline for a formal AGM has been set for end October 2021.

WebsiteA formal AFNDT Website is being developed and shall be linked to the ICNDT website once
completed and approved by the AFNDT Board

Registration – Legal Entity
Following a successful registration of IIW regional entity by the SAIW; a similar approachhas been initiated for a regional AFNDT legal entity situated in South Africa.

Training
COVID 19 pandemic has had a significant impact on training with an up to 60% reduction indemand during the 2020/2021 period. Blended training options have been implemented
with online theoretical examination options available where infrastructure allows.

Qualification / Certification
Personnel qualification and certification activities have not been affected as severely, withup to a 30% reduction in activity reported where ISO 9712 certification are provided.

Achievements

Level 3 Workshop
An NDT Level 3 workshop was held during February & March 2021 at SAIW with 9
participants, including 3 from Cameroon. All individuals successfully achieved their NDTLevel 3 qualification in the relevant methods with the Cameroonian candidates being
successful in FOUR main Methods.
A second workshop is scheduled for August & September 2021 with a total of 12
participants confirmed.
National sponsorships are actively sought with a total of 12 Level 3 sponsorships confirmedfor 2021.

Scientific Visit – KEBS
Kenya Bureau of Standards have scheduled a scientific visit to South Africa to acquireassistance from SAIW Certification to establish a Kenyan Personnel Certification Body.



IAEA – Senior NDT personnel
Both abovementioned activities are made possible through triangular projects facilitated by
the IAEA, emphasising their commitment to infrastructure development within the African
continent and we would like to express our most sincere appreciation towards the IAEA

Challenges / Opportunities








National Qualification Framework
The establishment of a National Qualification Framework in various countries and thealignment of trade and occupational qualifications, such as NDT within this framework isproven to challenging since internationally established good practice and standards require
adjustment to comply with the national statutory educational requirements.

Qualification / Certification
While training and examinations are performed across the African continent, compliancewith ISO 17024 under the scope of ISO 9712 is proven to be challenging resulting in theinternational recognition via the ICNDT MRA schedule 2 registration currently only limited to
one African entity.
Significant effort is being planned to assist African countries to help establish a national
Qualification and Certification infrastructure across the continent and to gain internationalrecognition via ICNDT MRA Schedule 2 emphasising the importance of the ICNDT EQB
within the region.

Localisation
The localisation of NDT competence in light of the preference towards internationallyqualified personnel remains a challenge.

Regional Co-operation vs National Operations
Most African countries have focussed on national NDT interests as opposed to regional
cooperation due to numerous reasons but the shift in strategy to promote sustainable
national certification bodies hopes to improve regional cooperation.

Regional Report at ICNDT GA

APFNDT Report
Asia Pacific Federation for Non-Destructive Testingwww.apfndt.org

Dr. Norikazu Ooka
President of APFNDT

19 July 2021
Web meeting

Members of APFNDT・ Full Members, 17 societies (2019-2021)
・ Secondary Full Members, 3 societies (2019-2021)
・ Associate Member, 3 societies (2019-2021)
・ Regional Representative Group One - Western
Asia,
Central Asia, South Asia- 2 members
・ Regional Representative Group Two - East Asia,
South East Asia- 4 members
・ Regional Representative Group Three - Pacific,
Oceania 2 members

Members of APFNDTFull Members, 20 societies (2019-2021)
Including Secondary Full Members
AINDT - The Australian Institute for Non Destructive Testing
ASNT - The American Society for NDT
AUTRI - Asosiasi Uji Tak Rusak Indonesia
BSNDT - The Bangladesh Society for Non Destructive Testing
ChSNDT - The Chinese Society for Non Destructive Testing
CINDE - The Canadian Institute for Non-Destructive Evaluation
IRNDT - Iranian Society for Nondestructive Testing
ISNT - The Indian Society for Non-Destructive Testing
JSNDI - The Japanese Society for Non-Destructive Inspection
KSNT - The Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing*Full Members*Secondary Full Members

Members of APFNDTMSNDT - Mongolian Society for Non Destructive Testing
MSNT - The Malaysian Society of Non Destructive Testing
NDTSS - Non-Destructive Testing Society (Singapore)NZNDTA - New Zealand Nondestructive Testing Association Inc.
PASNT - Pakistan Society for NDT
PSNDT - Philippine Society for Nondestructive Testing, Inc.
RSNTTD - The Russian Society for Non Destructive Testing andTechnical Diagnostics
SNTCT - The Society for Nondestructive Testing and Certification of
TaiwanSNDT - Society for Non Destructive Testing, Sri Lanka
TSNT - Thai Society for Non-Destructive Testing*Full Members*Secondary Full Members

Members of APFNDTAssociate Member, 3 societies (2019-2021)
VANDT - Vietnam Association for Non Destructive TestingAZNDT - Azerbaijan NDT Society
KAOFD - Kazakhstan Association of Flaw DetectionReport of APFNDTAPFNDT Executive Committee Meeting
24 March, 2021 , Web Meeting
General APFNDT Matters
・ Collection of fees
・ Approved budgetary items that could not be pursued due to COVID-19
・ Proposal for the extension of the current terms of office for the APFNDT Board.
16th Asia Pacific Conference for Non-Destructive Testing (APCNDT 2023)
・ Due to COVID-19 the 15th APCNDT in Melbourne, Australia
was postponed 27th February to 3rd March, 2023 but is on schedule.
APFNDT Newsletter
・ The first issue for this years APFNDT newsletter was released in April with thenext released in July.

Report of APFNDTAPFNDT Executive committee Meeting
2 June, 2021 , Web Meeting
General APFNDT Matters
Extension of current terms of office approved
Dates Decided for next Full Board Meeting and General Assembly
Full Board Meeting on Friday September 10th at 10:00 (JST).
General Assembly on Friday October 1st at 10:00 (JST).

Future Activities
More support for NDT programs with other organizations (ISO, IAEA, and IIW).

Report of APFNDTMain Activities for 2020-2021 in APFNDTTG 1 Membership
TG 2 APFNDT Journal
TG 3 Communications and website
TG 4 Education and Training
TG 5 Certification
TG 6 Standards
TG 7 NDE 4.0 (New TG from 2020)

APFNDT Task Group Status
TG 1 Membership- Kevin Smith
23 total members: 17 Primary Full Members, 3Secondary Full Members, 3 Associate
Members.

TG 2 APFNDT Journal- Prof. Jung-Ryul Lee
Under review and is now working to gather
content for the APFNDT Newsletter
TG3 Communications: Mr. Shohei Ooka
Renewal of the ICNDT website and distributionof the APFNDT Newsletter.

TG 4 Education- Dr. B. Venkatraman
Working to convert the, “Anniversary ofRadiation” into a TG activity.
TG 5 Certification – Paul Grosser
Progress made in the latest edition of ISO
9712:2021
TG 6 Standards: Dr. Takamasa Ogata
Review of existing ISO standards and planned
distribution of ISO 9712 and the related
standards.

TG 7 NDE 4.0- Pranay Wadyalkar
Recruiting members and had their firstmeeting on July 5th, 2021.

Report of APFNDTNDT Events in APFNDT
Year

Event

7th International Symposium on Laser Ultrasonics
2021 and Advanced Sensing
ASNT Annual Conference 2021
The 20th World Conference on Non-Destructive
Testing (WCNDT 2022)
2022

OctoberSociety
ChSNDT

November 15-18 ASNT
Feb 28 - Mar 4

KSNTMalaysia International NDT Conference andExhibition 2022 (MINDTCE’ 22)Aug. 16-17

MSNT

7th US-Japan NDT Symposium

August 23-26

ASNT
JSNDI

Nov. 7-8

NDTSS

Feb 28 - Mar 3

AINDT

***

ASNT

Singapore International Non-Destructive
Conference and Exhibition (SINCE)
The 16th Asia Pacific Conference for Non2023
Destructive Testing (APCNDT 2023)
2025

Date

The 17th Asia Pacific Conference for NonDestructive Testing (APCNDT 2025)

Schedule on APFNDT Meetings(AEC, Board Meeting, General Assembly)
Year

APFNDT
Meetings
WCNDT
2022
2022
16th
2023
APCNDT
17th
2025
APCNDT
2021

AEC

Board
Meeting

Yes

Yes

Korea, Incheon

Yes

Yes

No

Melbourne

Yes

Yes

Yes

Hawaii

Yes

Yes

Yes

Event

Place
Online via the Secretariat

GeneralAssemblyYes

Presentation for ICNDT GA
IN THAT WORKS AND PROMOTES EFNDTSITUATION OF EFNDT MATTERSEFNDT has redeﬁned ten Working Groups and three Forums and these have started their work through virtual
meetings and conferences. These ten groups are as follows:
•●
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WG1 – Education
WG2 – Radiation Protection and ADR
WG3 – Condition Monitoring
WG4 – Laboratory Accreditation
WG5 – ND Tfor Public Safety and Security
WG6 – NDT on Additive Manufacturing
WG7 – Failure Analysis (Risk Analysis)
WG8 – Human Factors
WG9 – Ethics
WG10 – NDT4.0
Forum for European National Aerospace NDT Boards (NANDTBs)
Forum for Railway Industries
Forum for Marine.

Additionally, a Working Group with the European Welding Federation (EWF) has been reactivated to complete The
EWF-EFNDT joint committee has had 6 meetings in the 2020-2021 period

PROJECTS AND ACTIONSEuropean NDE Engineer Project
RIMA• As ICNDT knows, RIMA is a 4-year H2020 project aiming to establish a network of 13 Digital
Innovation Hubs (DIH) on robotics sharing best practices and providing services to facilitate uptakeof I&M technologies. RIMA network encompasses leading research organizations supporting one
DIH per region aligned with regional policies and industry sectors and sectorial associations wich
will make a bridge with end users and industries• EFNDT has sent a letter to our Associations to participate in this project, but the answer has
not been, until now, very important

Other matters• The EFNDT will hold the general assembly this year divided into two parts.
• On 10th June by internet, the first part to approve the financial results and the second part in
October- November this year that we hope will be held semi-face-to-face where the new BoD will beelected• The WG10 has held 2 meetings and the NDE 4.0 has made an International conference called by
the DGZfP and with the support of the ICNDTPROJECTS AND ACTIONSNDE 4.0

Brexit• The EFNDT has had 2 extraordinary meetings to analyze the situation due to Brexit in relation to theEuropean Pressure Equipment Directive 2014/68/EU (PED).

ECNDTThe Organizing Committee of the next ECNDT has had several meetings with the President andSecretary of the EFNDT and has recommended to the BoD that the dates for the 13 th ECNDT should be
re-scheduled to 3-7 July 2023 in Lisbon, due to the postponement of the 20 th WCNDT until 2022 and after
consultation with the Lisbon Exhibition Centre, the professional conference organizers, sponsors and andexhibitors. These dates have been approved by BoD.

PROJECTS AND
ACTIONSOIEA-ARCAL PROJECTOn May 18 has been held a webminar with some Sudamerican countries, Italy and Spain, focusedin the Certification schemes
The EFNDT made a presentation of its activities and projects in order to invite these countries todisseminate them and to invite to participatete in our different working groups.

The EFNDT will make a presentation of its activities
and projects.
This summit will be focussed in NDE 4.0 and IA andsupported by the EFNDTICNDT
42º MEETING – GENERAL ASSEMBLY
2021, July 19th
10 am London UK time
06 am Brazil time

PANAMERICAN FEDERATION OF NDTMEMBERS / MIEMBROS
PAÍS/COUNTRY/PAÍS

SIGLA/ACRONYM/SIGLARAZÃO SOCIAL/BUSINESS NAME/RAZON SOCIAL

Argentina

AAENDE

Asociación Argentina de Ensayos No Destructivos y
Estructurales

Bolívia

ASBOSENDIC

Asociación Boliviana de Soldadura, Ensayos No Destructivos,
Inspección y Corrosión

BrasilCanadaABENDI
CINDE

Associação Brasileira de Ensaios Não Destrutivos e Inspeção
Canadian Institute for Non-destructive Evaluation

Chile

ACHISEND

Asociación Chilena de Soldadura Inspección y Ensayos no
Destructivos

Colombia
Costa Rica
EcuadorEstados Unidos / United States
MéxicoACOSEND*Costa Rica
ESPOL
ASNT
IMENDE A.C.

Asociación Colombiana de Soldadura y Ensayos No
Destructivos
Instituto Tecnologico de Costa Rica
Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral
The American Socity for Nondestructiv Testing Inc
Instituto Mexicano de Ensayos No Destructivos, A.C.

MéxicoPeru
Uruguay

AMEXEND A.C.
APEND
AENDUR

Asociación Mexicana de Ensayos no Destructivos Asociación
Civil
Asociación Peruana de END
Asociación Uruguaya de Ensayos No Destructivos

MANAGEMENT BOARD- President: João Conte (Abendi - Brazil)- Vice President: Dave Bajula (ASNT - USA)- Treasurer: Jorge Amsler (AAENDE - Argentina)- Secretary: Glenn Tubrett (CINDE – Canada)Main activities
 Next PANNDT Conference:
VIII Pan-American Conference for Nondestructive Testing ( VIII PANNDT), tobe held in Canada, 2023 June 19 – 23;
 PANNDT Federation Meeting on May 27th;
 Revision of the Action Plan;

 Estrategic Plan to be reformatted;
 2021 Membership invoices (ICNDT & PANNDT) sent.

StatusAAENDE (Argentina)
Positive issues: Migration into online activities; Agreement with IAEA for training courses;
 Organization of the “Art´21 International Conference of non-destructive investigations
and microanalysis for the diagnostics and conservation of cultural and environmental
heritage”, to be held in Buenos Aires, in November, a hybrid event, with English as theofficial language; Argentina keeps suffering with the restrictions.

Status
CINDE (Canada) test centers have returned to the same volumes previous to the pandemic;
 training courses have been reduced the sizes in order to allow distance between thestudents and so ensuring the security;
 there are a few qualified online training courses are doing well; staff are notattending events;
 national conference is planned to May, 2022 as exhibitors; but sponsors and authorsof papers are not confident for a good result on an online event.

Status
ACOSEND (Colombia)
 national conferences were held as a Metal-Mechanics Congress and another by theInstituto Colombiano de la Construcción con Acero (Colombian Institute ofConstruction with Steel); last year only 40% of the NDT and Welding training courses could be accomplished.
40 inspectors were certified as Level 2.

StatusASNT (USA) pandemic is almost passed through the USA, many of the business are open up,
travels are returning as well as the ASNT staff, although many employees are stillworking from home; conference events continue to be done virtually until June. From July onwards, eventsare planned to be in person, expecting to have smaller audience than usual; the annual conference will be in November, in Phoenix (Arizona), in person and as
close to the normal as it could be; certifications programs are doing well as the exams centers are open in most areas; exams are back as almost normal and in some cases better; new program on oil and gas industry that is performing well, with more than 400
people attending to it; membership volume is almost back to normal .

StatusIMENDE (Mexico)
 collaboration with the Nuclear Mexican Institute to participate of a Conference, towhich they were invited by Patricio Quezada. This Conference reunited 5 Societies(Spain, Ecuador, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico) in order to discuss about the different
Certification Schemes;
 Mexico has started to prepare a national certification scheme, which involves fourmain entities, based on the Mexican Standard B4-82 and in parallel with ISO 9712. The
institute is preparing and updating different courses in five methods to become elearning, which will support the scheme. It will be the first time that exams for Level 3
will be included;
 Level 2 Certifications have been strengthened in Mexico; Renew of Imende as the Accreditation Body in Mexico for the 5th year; Imende is also accredited to certify people for ISO 9712 as well as the Mexican
Standard B4-82;
 Imende kept the recognition by the MRA/ICNDT for Levels 1 and 2;
 around 400 people are attending the training in 5 methods, and 42 people werecertified especially in hydrostatic testing.

StatusAMEXEND (Mexico) Support to develop a national scheme equivalent to the ISO 9712 standard with thefocus of implement a national certification scheme;
 Participation in the evaluation and review of the standard for non-destructive
methods with CANACERO (Cámara Nacional de la Industria de Acero – National
Chamber of Steel Industry), working with the Committee ISO TC 135 in reviewing thestandards;
 Micendalc project has been moving.

StatusAMEXEND (Mexico) Support to develop a national scheme equivalent to the ISO 9712 standard with thefocus of implement a national certification scheme.
 Participation in the evaluation and review of the standard for non-destructive
methods with CANACERO (Cámara Nacional de la Industria de Acero – National
Chamber of Steel Industry), working with the Committee ISO TC 135 in reviewing thestandards
 Micendalc project has been moving.

StatusAENDUR (Uruguay) The Society is providing some changes, trying to modernize, as adopting tools formeetings as the face-to-face meetings were not possible;
 AENDUR was invited to participate of the IAEA webinar session; The size of the country impacts in how they want to certify;
 The pandemic paralyzed the activities.

StatusABENDI (Brazil)
 Online training programs;
 The National NDT Conference (CONAENDI) was postponed from 2020 to 2021, which
was an online event with around 900 attendees; The number of professionals on Abendi´s Qualification and Certification schemes lastyear remained the same as prior to the pandemic.

StatusACHISEND (Chile) Due to the pandemic, the actions to legalize the Society were halted.

StatusASOVEND (Venezuela)
 Difficulties with certification of people considering Venezuela left ISO, in this way nostandards to work on;
 In 2019, it was created a Technical Committee named as "22". Such Committee
discussed and aproved some standards based on the ISO 9712 and 2967. The
Venezuelan Government is the only authorized body to certify people, although thestandards allow Universidad Central Venezolana (Venezuelan Central University) toact as a didactic expert, which means the Universy is allowed to teach and enableprofessionals, to apply exams, and to provide recommendation to the SENCAMER Servicio Nacional Autónomo de Normalización, Calidad, Metrología y Normativa
Técnica (National Autonomous Service of Standardization, Quality, Metrology andTechnical Standards) - which is the Government´s body of accreditation; The Venezuelan standard is almost done, equivalent to the ISO 9712;
 The Universiy will not be a body of acreditation;
 ASOVEND has been abandoned , however there is a will to reactive it legally , but thismovement has been stopped due to the pandemic.

Status
ASENDEC (Ecuador) Participation to the ARCAL/IAEA webinar sessions on Certification Schemes
 There has been no meetings as a Society, due to the pandemic, it is why it was notpossible to move on with the procedures for the legalization of the EcuadorianSociety.

Challenges
 As in other sectors, Covid 19 pandemic impacted the business;
 Collection of the membership fees for ICNDT & PANNDT; Support to the countries to create their national certification schemes.

Opportunities Future new members:
1. Reactivation of ASBOSENDIC, ASOVEND
2. Legalization of ACHISEND, ASENDEC
3. CONENCA

20th WCNDT UpdateReporting of Situation Update
1

Conference Overview

5

Exhibition2

Homepage Renewal

6

Fluctuation in Attendance

3

Registration

7

Sponsorship

4

Abstract

Reporting of Future Plan
Plan to Counter COVID-19

Reporting of Situation Update1. Conference Overview

DateFirst Postponed

Second Postponed

May 31 to June 4, 2021

February 28 to March 4, 2022

In response to the global widespread of COVID-19, 20th WCNDT Organizing Committee has decided the 2nd
postponement of the Conference at the end of last year to the new date for Feb. 28 to Mar. 4, 2022.

Venue
Title

Official Website

Songdo Convensia, Incheon
As it has been postponed to be held in 2022, the Conference name is changed fromWCNDT 2020 to "20th WCNDT" including the official website atwww.20thwcndt.com.

https://www.20thwcndt.com

4

2. Homepage Renewal
Amendment of Conference Logo
Revision of Conference Title and Date

Revision of Important Dates andNews & Notice

Abstract Submission and Registration- Online abstract and registration system isin operation

53. Registration
Registration Status (As of July 14)
Category of Conference Fees

Number of Registrants

Participants (Full)390

Students

117

Retired/Meeting

22

Accompanying Person

24

Exhibitors (Free)

172

NDT Society (Free)

18

Total

743

6

4. Abstract Submission
Abstract Submission Status
Topic 1.
Topic 2.
Topic 3.
Topic 4.
Topic 5.
Topic 6.
Topic 7.
Topic 8.
Topic 9.
Topic 10.
Topic 11.
Topic 12.
Topic 13.
Topic 14.

Division

Abstract Submission Status by Main Topic (As of July 14)

Ultrasonics (UT)Infrared Thermography (IR)
Eddy Current & Electromagnetics (ET)Digital Radiography & Computed Tomography (RT)Power Plants (PP)
Structural Health Monitoring & Prognostics and Health Management (HM)
Optics & Vision Systems (OT)
Civil Infrastructures (Smart NDT for Bridges and Buildings) (HM)Terahertz (TZ)
Transportation (TR)Aerospace & Defense (AD)Acoustic Emission & Acoustic Method (AE)
Additive Manufacturing (AM)NDT Industry 4.0(IoT,Al etc.) (AI)
Biomedical Technology (BT)Material Characterization (MC)Vibration & Condition Monitoring (CM)
Certification & Qualification (CQ)
Etc.
Oil & Gas (OG)NDT Reliability (RE)
Sensor & Materials (SM)
Etc.
Special Sessions
Academia
Total

Oral
186
39
74
79
42
29
15
27
34
23
27
43
19
29
7
21
3
12
25
22
8
8
92
12
876

Poster
37
9
39
35
15
6
4
5
15
20
2
15
2
7
2
12
2
3
5
7
4
10
5
0
261

Total
223
48
113
114
57
35
19
32
49
43
29
58
21
36
9
33
5
15
30
29
12
18
97
12
1137

7

5. Exhibition▶ Total 185 exhibitors completed booth contract and 340 booths (based on 9 sqm2) are sold out.
▶ Additional 3 booths space are available for supplementary sale based on the updated booth layout.
▶ Aiming to completing booth contract by October 31, 2021.

86. Fluctuation in AttendanceOverall Changes in Attendance by 2nd Postponement▶ The notice date of the second postponement : Dec. 31, 2020
▶ The due date of the cancelled registration refund: Mar. 31, 2021

Category
Abstracts

Before Postponed

After Postponed

Changes

1128

1137

9 increase▪ Abstract cancellation after postponed: 44▪ Additional abstract submission after postponed : 53764

Registrants

743

21 decrease▪ Registration cancellation after postponed: 29▪ Additional registration after postponed: 8

Exhibition Booths (Asized Booth)

339

340

1 increase97. Sponsorship▶ As of July 9, total 25 sponsors including exclusive sponsor confirmed their participation.
▶ 20th WCNDT 2020 Organizing Committee is undertaking multi-faceted efforts to attract more sponsors tocontribute overall income

Exclusive Sponsor

Other Sponsors(19)

Supporting
Organizations(5)

10

Reporting of Future Plan

Plan to Counter COVID-19
Rescheduling Dates for 20th WCNDTConsideration: 20th WCNDT Organizing Committee reviewed multi-faceted points for the
successful conference including pace of vaccinations, seasonal factor,
availability of Songdo Convensia , satisfaction from major sponsors andexhibitors.
Decision on Dates: Through intensive internal meetings and close consultation with ICNDT
key stakeholders on Jul. 9, 20th WCNDT Organizing Committee has cometo an agreement to hold the conference on May 30 to June 4, 2022.
※ In case that Jun., 2022 would not be available inevitably, autumn 2022 or 2024 could beconsidered later as alternative options

Official Announcement: Expected to make official announcement on rescheduling dates for20th WCNDT by the end of July.

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ICNDT
42º MEETING – GENERAL ASSEMBLY
2021, July 19th
MEMBERSHIP
10 am London UK time
06 am Brazil timeJoão ConteMembership Committee
Chair: João Conte
Members: Alexander Mullin; David Gilbert; Ferid Herelli; Les Dick; Purschke Matthias;
Shohei Ooka

Challenges:- Covid 19 pandemic;- Collection of annual fees.
Main activities:- Distribution of the annual fees invoices for the region;- Translation of OP 11 and the flier about the Determination and collection ofmembership fees for 2021 to Spanish language in order to facilitate the understanding
and attract new Spanish speaker members.

Standby:- INDT Nigeria- Reactivation of ASBOSENDIC (Bolívia), ASOVEND (Venezuela)- Legalization of ACHISEND (Chile), ASENDEC (Ecuador)- CONENCA (Dominican Republic)ICNDT Working Group 1 on Qualification
and Certification
Report to GA
19th July 2021

Alexander MULLIN
WG 1 Chair

WG 1 Membership
Currently – 23 members
representing thefollowing countries:
Austria, Australia, Brazil,
Bulgaria, Canada, China,
Denmark, Germany,
France, Japan, Iran,India, Republic of Korea,
Russia, Singapore,
Spain, South Africa,
Turkey, Ukraine, UK,USA

WG 1 Meetings

2016 – Munich, Germany - 11 June 20162017 – Vienna, Austria - 5 June 20172017 – Singapore - 15 November 20172018 – Gothenburg, Sweden - 13 June 20182019 – Mexico-city – 22 October 20192020 – Seoul – 07 June 2020 – cancelled
2021 – on-line – 21 April 2021

WG 1 Meeting, 21 April 2021

WG1 Action plan

Action plan.
Part of ICNDT Strategic plan
Last update – 21 April 2021

WG1 Action plan

New items.

Workshops on qualification and certification2014 – Prague

2016 – Munich

2017 – Singapore

2020 – Seoul – cancelled
202? – Incheon - planned

ICNDT Recommendations for the operations of Certification Bodies during the
COVID-19 pandemic in compliance with ISO/IEC 17024:2012 and ISO 9712:2012

ICNDT Recommendations for the operations ofCertification Bodies during the COVID-19 pandemic incompliance with ISO/IEC 17024:2012 and ISO 9712:2012
Editorial Committee

ICNDT Recommendations for the operations of Certification Bodies during the
COVID-19 pandemic in compliance with ISO/IEC 17024:2012 and ISO 9712:2012

Background.
The main challenge for Certification bodies under theconditions of government restrictions is to provide
qualification and certification following three mainprinciplesof
ISO/IEC
17024:2012
which
are
independence, integrity and impartiality.
ICNDT recommends using the best practice to address
both ISO/IEC 17024:2012 and ISO 9712:2012.

ICNDT Recommendations for the operations of Certification Bodies during the
COVID-19 pandemic in compliance with ISO/IEC 17024:2012 and ISO 9712:2012

ICNDT Recommendations deals with:
1. Eligibility: Training
Recognition of a Blended Training option by the
Certification Body
2. Eligibility: Industrial NDT Experience
3. Examination
4. Renewal / Recertification

PED Approval for non-European countries

PD CEN/TR 15589:2014 should be used

Non destructive testing - Code of practice for theapproval of NDT personnel by recognised third party
organisations under the provisions of Directive 97/23/EC

ICNDT Recommendations for Personnel Certification Bodies

ICNDT Recommendations for Personnel Certification Bodies

Background
ICNDT WG1 has developed these recommendations
to prevent unfair delivering ISO 9712 Personnel
Certification and reduce the risk for Certification
bodies.
Members who are part of Schedule 2 of ICNDT MRA
shall extend their best efforts to eliminate any
deviations from both ISO/IEC 17024:2012 andISO 9712:2012 during the operation of Certification
scheme.

ICNDT Recommendations for Personnel Certification Bodies

Recommendations provides the bestpractice in regards to:
1. Structure of Certification Body
2. Outsourcing
3. Application process
4. Using of Examination Question bank
5. Practical Examination
6. Instruction writing / Procedure writing
7. Decision on certification

WG1 participation in ISO 9712 revision process

Representatives of WG1
in TC 135 SC7 Task
Groups were nominated.

ICNDT Working Group 1 on Qualification and Certification

Thank you!

Report from the ICNDT Certification
Executive Committee (ICEC) for July 2021
Compiled by Colin Bird. Secretary ICEC and Harold Jansen Chairman ICEC
Presented by Colin Bird and Harold Jansen, Chairman ICEC

Contents

 ICNDT Certification Executive Committee
OP18
 ICNDT MRA Schedule 1 Members
OP19
 ICNDT MRA Schedule 2 Registrants
OP19
 Certification Bodies which are under renewal process New Certification Body Applications
 PCBA status
 Member challenges
 Current activities for Conformity Assessment
OP20
 ICNDT – EQB
OP23

ICNDT Certification Executive Committee (OP18)
The ICNDT Executive Committee (IEC) delegates specificresponsibilities of the ICNDT Certification Executive Committee(ICEC) for the management of activities relating to NDT
personnel qualification and certification, including but not limitedto: An ICNDT Multilateral Recognition Agreement (MRA) Conformity assessment of PCBs against specific standards/
criteria
 Management & administration of an ICNDT Bank of Examination
Questions (EQB)

THE ICEC is established to implement and manage processes
developed by the ICNDT Working Group 1
WG 1 – Qualification and Certification

ICNDT Multilateral Recognition Agreement (MRA) Current Status of Schedule 1
47 National Societies/Institutes, which are Members/Associate
Members of ICNDT have signed 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, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco
Netherlands, New Zealand, 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 promote the recognition of thecertification 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
20 Personnel Certification Bodies (PCBs) are registered with the
ICNDT MRA Schedule 2, There is a further 1 application inprogress. This represents an increase of two PCB bodies since
July 2020.
IRAM Argentina,
AINDT Australia,
ABENDI Brazil,
ChSNDT China,
Chinese Taiwan
TUV Nord Czech, s.r.o.
Inspecta Sertifiointi Finland,
SECTOR Cert Germany,
South Korea,
Malaysia,

IMENDE Mexico,
UDT-CERT Poland,
RELACRE Portugal
RTC Russia,
SAIW Certification South Africa,
NDTSS Singapore,
NCNDT Sri Lanka.
PCN UK,CSWIP UK,
Ukr-SRINDT UkraineICNDT Multilateral Recognition Agreement (MRA)Recent Changes to Registrations
Recent new registrations to MRA Schedule 2 (Personnel
Certification Bodies)Chinese Taiwan
KSNDT Korea

February 2021
February 2021

Recent renewals of registration to MRA Schedule 2 (PCBs)

 ChNDT China

July 2021

2021 has been a relatively quiet year for ICEC MRA review teams.
However thank you for the effort in the OP20 audit review and re-registration of
ChNDT which is now a large and growing member organisation.

ICNDT Multilateral Recognition Agreement (MRA)Other activities
Schedule 2 Applications in Progress India
Schedule 2 Continuity Check (Form C) During 2020 a ‘surveillance’ process have been implemented toensure maintenance of accreditation and to allow for theidentification of any changes in recognition scope.
In August I will be reminding all MRA Schedule 2 members tocompleted form C to continue their registration except for China
which has renewed their registration in 2021.

ICNDT Conformity Assessment of Personnel
Certification Bodies (OP20)

 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.

 ChNDT (China) was successfully audited via the OP20 route
this year which was lead by Alexander Mullin Russia
supported by Singapore leading to a successful OP19 reregistration.

ICNDT Examination Question Bank (OP23)

 The EQB is a set of more than 6000 method, sector and levelspecific questions covering the 6 basic NDT methods i.e ET,
MT, PT, UT, RT and VT available to MRA Schedule 2
Regstered PCB’s.

 Currently it is available as a standalone package capable ofgenerating randomparameters.

papersrelating toabovementioned

 The ICEC have identified issues relating to continuous

support, maintenance and update of questions to reflect latest
standards and is considering different service provision
options without contravening its ‘non-profit’ status, sincemodification shall inadvertently have commercial implications.

International NDE 4.0 virtual Conference

ICNDT GA
9th July 2021
Prof. Dr. A. Erhard
er@dgzfp.de1

Some brief information
The virtual conference took place at 14th and 15th April 2021 as well as at
20th and 21st April 2021.
Four keynote presentations, 26 invited lectures, twelve commercial lecturesand four panel discussions made up the program for this four days.
The presentations of many contributions can be found on the conference
website https://2021.nde40.com and will appear as a paper in a special
edition of the Journal of NDE.

ParticipantsParticipation - virtual, all days
Free participation virtual
Speaker - virtual, all daysStudents - virtual, all days
Participation - 2 days_20/21 April
Participants in total

2

66
23
8
9
5
111

Participants3

Germany
Japan
USA
Spain
United Kingdom
CanadaSouth Korea
India
FranceArgentina
Australia
Austria
Belgium
China
Czech Republik
Finland
Hungary
Italy
LatviaMexicoNetherlands
NorwaySingapore
SwedenSwitzerland

37
15
10
7
7
6
6
4
3
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1

Next NDE 4.0 Conference

Abstract submission until September 30th 2021
(https://conference.nde40.com).

4

SIG NDE 4.0
SCOPE of SIG on NDE 4.0
Responsibility

Priority

Technical
T-1

Sharing of International R&D & NDE 4.0 Activities (Content)

Janannes, Bernd

1

Including sharing with outside of NDE sector

T-2

Guidelines on Data Formats, Interfaces,exchange, und ontology

Janannes, Pranay

2

Inclusing best practise

Mr. Wait3T-3Standardization, Validation (Inclusive of learning systems)
Process

P-1

Common terminology

P-2

Knowledge exchange Chanel(Publications, Platform and Forum)

P-3

Guideline for roadmap/application on NDE 4.0

P-4

Don Andrews
Ripi

Risk and Resiliency (War, COVID, ...)

1

What is specially NDE 4.0

1

Other professional bodies

2

Recommens ptractice , include critival issues

3

Human Perspectives
H-1

Changing Role (Liaison SIG on reliability)1

H-2

Ethics, Diversity Equity & Inclusion,

2

H-3

Certification (H, M, HMI)

5

Mr. Wait

3

SIG Reliability
Brief Information
ACTION PLAN: SIG NDT Reliability (Updated June 8, 2021)
Task Group Co-Chairs: Daniel Kanzler and Marija Bertovic
Committee: Bernard McGrath, Greg Selby, Robert Smith, Johanna Farnhammer,
Younho Cho, Abdeldjalil Bennecer.

Notes:
1. “Cost” estimate and “IEC Decision” needed when the SIG wants to spend ICNDT
money or
2. ICNDT IEC Decision needed if you wish to publish an ICNDT Guide – fairly easy
process.
3. We suggest someone from the committee be named to take the lead on each ActionArea.
4. The normal reporting route for the SIG is to the Co-Chairs of ICNDT WG3 (Prof Erhard
and Prof Cho). Mike Farley will remain available to provide support.

6extraction of the action plan
Action (What)

Cost (€)

Who?

When?

1

Organisation

1.1

Confirm membership of Committee?Marija
Bertovic

April 2021

1.2

See up email register of all members of group?DanielKanzler

April 2021

1.3

Update website

Ditto/ David
Gilbert1.4

Announce meeting programme in ICNDTJournal and on website

Ditto/ David
Gilbert2

Communication and knowledge sharing

2.1

Quarterly/ Bimonthly meetings. Eachmeeting will have a standard agenda, eg:
Introductions
Speakers (normally 2/meeting, 20 min talks
and 5 min Q+A) – to be arranged six months
at a time
Reports on Action areas
Decisions on new action areas
Update on next International workshop

7

First
tranche by
mid April?

Progress/ Remarks

IEC
Decision

ICNDT WG5:
Radiation Protection &SafetyISEMIR-IRISEMIR is the acronym for the Information System on

Occupational Exposure in Medicine, Industry and Research.

ISEMIR-IR is a web-based tool for non-destructive testing

companies carrying out industrial radiography (IR). ISEMIRIR is developed as a tool for regular data collection andanalysis of occupational doses for individuals in IR, and forthe use of this information to improve occupational radiation
protection.

It assists IR facilities in benchmarking their arrangements inradiation protection and safety, and hence in promoting of,
implementation of optimisation of occupational radiation
protection.

WG5: Radiation Protection & Safety New impetus in promoting ISEMIR-IR and encouraging
completion of the surveys.

 WG5 basically consists of the ISEMIR WG members:
David Gilbert (UK); Charlotte Kaps (Germany); Richard
van Sonsbeek (Netherlands); Francisco Da Silva (Brazil).
Others are invited:
Dr. Erik Malta (Netherlands); Ezio Tuberosa (Italy)More please! Hope to hold meeting at WCNDT.

 In order to increase the number of active users in thesystem, as well as enhance users’ experience, two new
surveys were conducted: one for to regulatory bodies andone for NDT companies.

ISEMIR-IR Global Survey - Analysis of the results

Number of questionnaires received from NDTcompanies
Region

Questionnaires
received

Countries

Africa30

9Asia-Pacific

100

11

Europe130

15

Latin America

15

6North America

9

1

Total

284

42

What sort of data do you record?

Individual dose

Sources details

Accidents/incidents

Number ofradiographers

Training records

Workload (forexample: films/year)

Total

Africa

28

23

20

12

14

10

107

Asia-Pacific

96

63

51

77

73

36

396

Europe

125

90

85

100

91

37

528

Latin America

15

11

9

11

9

5

60

North America

8

6

7

7

7

1

36

SUM

272

193

172

207

194

89

1127

Radiography sources

2017
2018
2019

Number of units of
Number of Ir-192
Number of Se-75
Number of Co-60
radiation
radioactive sources radioactive sources radioactive sources generators (X-ray
units)
589
101
20
505
645
108
20
527
681
108
23
538

Total
1215
1300
1350

16. Accidents and incidents

2017
2018
2019

Number ofaccidents orincidents withdoses ≤
20mSv
20
16
9

Number ofaccidents orincidents withdoses > 20mSv
1
7
1

Are you aware of the IAEA ISEMIR-IR project for NDT companies?
AfricaAsia-Pacific
EuropeLatin America
North America
SUM

Yes
6
13
20
3
0
42

No
23
80
100
10
7
220

Total
29
93
120
13
7
262

5. Would you be interested in IAEA free softwarefor dose recording, analysis and reporting?
AfricaAsia-Pacific
EuropeLatin America
North America
SUM

Yes
25
62
62
14
7
170

No
4
31
64
0
1
100

Total
29
93
126
14
8
270

ISEMIR-IR Global Survey - Analysis of the results
Number of questionnaires received from Regulatory
BodiesWhat data do you currently collect from NDT companies?

Individual dose
AfricaAsia-Pacific
EuropeLatin America
North America
SUM

6
9
20
3
2
40

Sourcesdetails
7
11
21
3
2
44

Accidents/inci
Number ofdents
radiographers
6
6
11
7
22
15
3
3
2
2
44
33

Training
records
6
5
13
2
1
27

Workload

Other

Total

1
0
1
1
1
4

0
4
6
0
0
10

32
47
98
15
10
202

Are you aware of the ISEMIR-IR?

AfricaAsia-Pacific
EuropeLatin America
North America
SUM

Are you aware of the
ISEMIR-IR?
4
5
19
2
1
31

ICNDT WG5:
Radiation Protection &SafetyThank you

Brief report to the ICNDT from the ICNDT’s
Working Group 6, July 2021
Condition Monitoring Conferences
The WCNDT 2022
WG6 is actively supporting WCNDT 2022 byorganizing multiple structured sessions. WG6 ispreparing to publish the best CM papers fromthe WCNDT in the International Journal Insightand the best-case studies in the International
Newsletter Condition Monitor.
Some members of WG6 are planning to make
CM/NDT presentations at the WCNDT 2022.
The Third World Congress on CM, 2022
WG6 is actively supporting WCCM 2022 byorganizing multiple structured sessions and by
making NDT/CM plenary keynote talks. WG6 ispreparing to publish the best CM papers fromthe WCCM in the International Journal Insight
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.

and the best case studies in the International
Newsletter Condition Monitor.
Some members of WG6 are planning to
make CM/NDT presentations at the WCCM
2022.
 CM/NDT publications
Preparation of a special issue of theInternational Journal Insight to cover CM/NDT
topic is an ongoing task.
 CM/NDT Continuing Professional
Development
WG6 is planning CPDs, related to CM/NDT, at
WCCM 2022
 Joint CM/NDT cross-forums
WG6 planning cross-forum at WCCM 2022

The next WG 6 meeting in person will be at
WCNDT 2022.

 ISO TC 108 SC5Argentina offers to discuss in WG6 allstandards of the TC 108 SC5 “Condition
Monitoring & Diagnostics”.
ISO 18436-6 “Condition monitoring anddiagnostics of machines — Requirements for
qualification and assessment of personnel —Part 6: Acoustic emission” was sent on June 23
and is under discussion up to the end of July.
No comments were received up to now!
Co-Chairs of the WG 6
Cesar Belinco and Len Gelman

International Organization for Standardization

Report of ISO/TC 135- Non-destructive testing ICNDT General Assembly
July 2021
Web meeting

Structure of ISO/TC 135

ISO/TC 135 Non-destructive testing
Japan (JISC)SC 2 Surface methods
South Africa (SABS)
SC 3 Ultrasonic testing
Germany (DIN)
SC 3/WG 5 Ultrasonic test equipment
Germany (DIN)
SC 3/WG 6 Inspection using guided waves
Germany (DIN)
SC 4 Eddy current testingFrance (AFNOR)
SC 5 Radiographic testing
Germany (DIN)
SC 5/WG 8 Gamma scanning
Austria (ASI)
SC 6 Leak testing
Japan (JISC)
SC 7 Personnel qualification
Canada (SCC)
SC 8 Infrared thermography for non-destructive testing
Korea (KATS)
SC 8/WG 2 NDT-IRT-General principles
Japan (JISC)
SC 8/WG 3 NDT-IR-System and equipment
China (SAC)SC 8/WG 4 NDT-IR-Guidelines for examination of electrical installations
India (BIS)SC 9 Acoustic emission testing
China (SAC)SC 9/WG 8 Acoustic emission testing of metallic structures
China (SAC)SC 9/WG 9 AE sensor sensitivity verification
China (SAC)SC 9/WG 10 Acoustic emission testing of atmospheric pressure storage tank China (SAC)Members of ISO/TC 135
Secretariat (JISC, Japan) ■2020 Participating Members (40) ■2021 Participating Members (35) ■Observing Members (28) ■Observing Members (32) ■「ISO HP」引用

Liaisons with other organizations(1) Special liaison to comply with the Vienna agreement (1)
CEN/TC 138(2) Liaisons (within ISO and with IEC) (16)
ISO/CASCO
ISO/TCs (12): TC 11, TC 17, TC 20, TC 26, TC 44, TC 58,
TC 67, TC 79, TC 107, TC 112, TC 119, TC 261
SCs (2): TC 85/SC 6, TC 108/SC 5
IEC/TC (1): IEC/TC 87(3) Liaisons with other organizations (7)Liaisons A (4) : CEOC International, ICNDT, IIW, INLAC
Liaisons B (3) : EC, IAEA, WCO

Activity Report
35

30

5

0

25

20

15
0
26
24

3

10
14

1

0

5

2
0

7

10

7

4

4

0
SC 2

SC 3

SC 4

SC 5

ISO STANDARDS UNDER DEVELOPMENT

SC 6

SC 7

SC 8

PUBLISHED ISO STANDARDSSC 9

Future Plan / New Items
Next ISO/TC 135 Plenary
2020 WCNDT (Korea) Postponed
2021 Virtual Meeting in October
2022 WCNDT (Korea)
2023 ECNDT (Portugal)

Thank you foryour attention.