Analyst NDX

Analyst NDX is data acquisition and analysis software from ScanTech Instruments, a Longview, Texas maker of robotic ultrasonic testing scanners. It runs ScanTech's near-drum scanning systems, which inspect the tube areas of boiler steam and mud drums. During a scan, operators watch A-, B- and C-scans live and can adjust gain as they go. The system scans in continuous revolutions and records position precisely. A proprietary curved gate is designed to get the best signal return from tube geometry. After a scan, inspectors can re-gate a single point, a region or the whole scan to cut noise. They can also build 3D tube models to export to an external viewer, and use a tube sheet view that tracks every scan on one drum. Minimum-point detection groups similar thin spots and excludes outliers, which supports corrosion mapping. Report templates are built per job with drag-and-drop elements that combine scan data, screenshots and text. The software runs only on Windows, and ScanTech recommends 16 GB of RAM and a 1 TB disk. Pricing is not published. Buyers request a demo or a quote, and the software usually comes as part of a ScanTech scanner system. It suits NDT service companies and plant inspection teams in power generation, oil and gas, and refining that already use or plan to buy ScanTech hardware. Its main limitation is how narrow it is. It is built for one inspection type and one vendor's hardware, directory listings show no API or integrations, there are no public user reviews, and the latest documented release is v2.0.1.31 from March 2020.