by Andrew Sherbrooke and Bob Bajoras | May 7, 2019 |
Nondestructive Testing (NDT) is an approach to evaluating products or materials, that doesn’t require their disassembly or otherwise impair their functionality. NDT can employ magnetics, ultrasound, x-rays, and other technologies. Art+Logic has worked on a variety of NDT-related projects. The brief interview that follows, addresses some of the more common questions about NDT.
Andrew: Hi Bob. So let’s start out with me asking you, who does nondestructive testing? Is that something I could just jump into?
Bob: No, there are specially certified NDT experts who design the techniques and do the testing, and there are three levels of certification. (more…)
by Andrew Sherbrooke | Nov 17, 2016 |
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.”
— Shunryu Suzuki
I was recently given the opportunity to present myself as a “thought leader for my industry.” I’ve been pondering this. What do I know? What do I know so deeply and fully that others might want to hear my opinions about it? Not much, it seems. Actually, I don’t have nearly as many answers as I have questions. But more than this, it’s the questions that really keep me interested. (more…)
by Andrew Sherbrooke | Mar 15, 2016 |
Sunday afternoon I saved the day. You may not have read about it in the Seattle Times; it was kind of a subtle thing, but I think it made the world a little brighter.
I was in town helping to run a weekend workshop and at the end of the event, the teacher wanted to play a musical selection through the P.A. system. The sound team couldn’t get it to work, so I swooped in, fixed three separate problems, and averted. . . well, honestly, probably not disaster, but at least, mild disappointment.
The interesting piece for me was reflecting on the parallels between what happened that day, and what we do here at Art & Logic. Maybe some specifics would be useful:
- The first problem we encountered was that the iPhone being used for playback simply made no sound. This was easy to fix. The phone was plugged into a mixer – a device that combines multiple audio sources and then sends the result out to a speaker or a recording device. Mixers can be kind of complicated; in this case, there were a few different volume controls involved, and one was simply turned down. (more…)
by Andrew Sherbrooke | Jan 28, 2015 |
When developing a custom application to support your organization’s business processes, there are a number of reasons you might want to facilitate direct and automated entry of data into a computer system.
Perhaps your company has representatives out in the field, such as sales reps or inspectors. Rather than having them log data with a specialized device while in the field and transfer it “manually” at the office, these professionals might use an iPad to gather the information, with the data syncing automatically to a centralized database.
Device integration can transform business processes in a variety of fields and in a variety of ways. Let’s take a look at five of the top benefits device integration can deliver to drive more effective processes. (more…)
