Another milestone reached

We have reached another milestone, this time in the field of heat exchanger pipe testing, where we have already inspected over 8,000 km of pipes and thus, figuratively speaking, "drilled through" 2/3 of the diameter of our planet Earth.

In the 47 years since we introduced this type of testing in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic at CEZ, then still under the umbrella of the Concern Cooperative Material Centre (KKMS) and the Concern Diagnostic Centre for Power Engineering (KDSE), and then continued for 30 years as TEDIKO, s.r.o., we have inspected more than 4,000 pieces of equipment and more than 2,000,000 pieces of pipe.

Our material archive contains over 800 test samples of dozens of different materials and dozens of sizes and is the largest material database of heat exchanger tubes in Central Europe.

During this time, over 50 eddy current (ET) testers rotated through various positions.

Exactly 25 years ago, we started experiments in the Czech Republic with remote field eddy current testing, which we have been conducting on a commercial basis for almost 20 years, similar to the magnetic flux leakage (MFL) and ultrasound (IRIS) inspections.

25 years ago we also started the development of our own TEDECT, SKINECT and BOLTECT software for measurement, evaluation and archiving, which was completely state of the art and which was used in different versions for almost 20 years before we completely switched to other types of software.

TEDIKO, s.r.o. does not "just" perform a simple eddy current inspection like other companies dealing with non-destructive testing, but inspects the equipment comprehensively. This means that it uses multiple methods to determine equipment condition and predict service life, including laboratory investigation.

Facilities are approached from the perspective of RBI principles, with emphasis primarily on the commissioning of the new facility in an adequate and defect-free condition.