Year
1996
Abstract
As part of the modernization process, the Nondestructive Analysis (NDA) laboratory at Oak Ridge is undergoing changes to increase reliability, incorporate new analytical techniques, and improve quality assurance. The data system has been decentralized into a network, allowing any instrument to be controlled from any client, even remotely for trouble shooting purposes. By making the computers interchangeable, reliability increases. The scdlvvare has been redesigned to fimction on a network, and incorporates several improvements to enhance accuracy and include quality assurance. The emphasis of this paper is directed at the actual hardware and software to integrate “NDA 2000”. Another paper (Reference 1) by the same authors presented at this symposium gives more details concerning new analytical and QA techniques.