TPi September 2017

products & developments M-Steel Calculator digital service tool

steel, and is part of the company’s digitalisation strategy. Primarily aimed at operators in the automotive and engineering industries, it is based on Ovako’s M-Steel, which has characteristics that improve machining and can enhance the life of cutting tools. The calculator is available for computers, tablets and smartphones. Ovako AB – Sweden

Göran Nyström, EVP group marketing and technology. “Similar digital tools on the market have until now been based only on the equipment and not the type of steel being used. With the M-Steel Calculator, we can provide our customers with an efficient and user-friendly way to calculate the right settings and evaluate the difference in processing costs between M-Steel from Ovako and conventional steel.” TheM-Steel Calculator is a development of Ovako’s Steel Navigator, a platform to help customers identify the best

Ovako has launched the M-Steel Calculator, a digital tool based on the company’s Steel Navigator platform, which guides customers in identifying the right machine settings based on steel properties and cutting tools. The M-Steel Calculator also allows customers to compare tool life and cutting speeds between M-Steel ® from Ovako and conventional steel. “We are pleased to be able to offer our customers the M-Steel Calculator for comparison and verification of the correct machine settings,” said

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M-Steel Calculator’s start page

Tubular inspection services and equipment Tuboscope, a division of National Oilwell Varco, LP (NOV), is a supplier of tubular inspection services and equipment to the petroleum and pipe manufacturing industry. Its technologies are used for inspecting new and used tubular goods, to demanding industry and customer specifications, and include Amalog ® and Sonoscope ® electromagnetic inspection (EMI) technologies, and Truscope ® , TruWall ® and TruScan ® ultrasonic (UT) inspection systems. An example of the capability within the Tuboscope product line is the Truscope A/S (Amalog-Sonoscope). This inspection system combines the non-destructive techniques of EMI and UT principles to detect, evaluate and classify, in a single pass of the pipe through the system, transverse and longitudinal, internal and external flaws as well as wall thickness variations and laminations. (Amalog and Sonoscope) and UT (Truscope) techniques, the Truscope A/S satisfies the latest editions of API 5CT, 5L and 5D, as well as numerous other international specifications for non-destructive inspection of tubular products for the energy industry. The inspection system comprises two main sections – the inspection platform and the computerised inspection electronics.

The Truscope A/S system provides full- body inspection across a large range of pipe diameters. The pipes can be seamless or ERW; manufactured of ferrous or non-ferrous alloy materials; and with a variety of end conditions – saw-cut or cropped, plain-end, threaded, coupled, and upset or non- upset. With its combination of EMI

The Truscope can be configured to detect longitudinal, transverse and oblique defect orientations, as well as out-of-tolerance wall thickness variations and laminations. Tuboscope – USA www.nov.com

The company supplies mill inspection equipment, available to manufacturers of tubular goods worldwide, that can be employed to inspect tubulars as rapidly as they are fabricated. These mill units are capable of operating at high testing speeds and can be custom-designed to production line requirements.

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