Cost-effective solutions and uncompromised quality.
Depend on Alphacore for cost-effective solutions and uncompromised quality.
Alphacore delivers accurate, reliable results the first time, every time, improving your productivity, saving you time and lowering your costs. We understand that each industry has exacting standards and these expectations are no match for the professionals at Alphacore. Our solutions are designed to meet your precise requirements for reliability, timeliness and cost-efficiency.
Engineers, inspectors, field technicians, laboratory technologists, trades people and rope access technicians are available when you need them. In consultation with you, we leverage our 40 years of experience to choose the right technology and personnel for each job, ensuring cost-effective, reliable results regardless of the industry. Alphacore provides innovative solutions to avoid expensive or unsafe outcomes.
Alphacoreโs solutions for the automotive industry are designed to ensure component integrity prior to production, improving the efficiency and productivity of your operations. Our experts accurately identify material and subsurface part defects so you can avoid costly failures and product recalls. Our high volume automotive labs calculate inspection times in seconds rather than days, saving our clients time and money.
Alphacore delivers accurate, reliable results the first time, every time, improving your productivity and lowering your costs.
The exacting standards of the automotive industry are no match for the professionals at Alphacore. Our solutions are designed to meet your precise requirements for reliability, timeliness and cost-efficiency:
Alphacore provides nondestructive testing, metrology and materials engineering services for safety critical parts. nondestructive testing test methods include computer radiography (CR), digital radiography (DR), real time radiography (RTR), high volume liquid penetrant (PT), ultrasonic (UT) for spot weld examination, eddy current (ET), visual inspection (VT) along with hardness and velocity testing.
We assist, design and implement inspection programs, including:
Alphacore is an approved source for sorting/visual inspection, dimensional inspection, CMM (coordinate measuring machine), rework, repackaging, problem solving, technical quality liaison representation, and training & development. Our facilities in Dayton, Detroit, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Brookfield lead Alphacore locations as high volume facilities with personnel, equipment and procedures dedicated to the automotive industry. On-site warehousing and expedited freight and logistics are available.
High Volume โ Containment, and Sorting Capabilities
Alphacore has the experience and capabilities to offer timely solutions for third party containment (sorting, inspection, warehousing, logistics and materials engineering support) for global OEM and tier level suppliers within the automotive industry.
We have extensive OEM approvals from leading automotive manufacturers in North America, South America, Asia and Europe. Our high volume automotive labs calculate inspection times in seconds rather than days, saving our clients time and money.
Extensive Experience with:
Alphacoreโs experienced and highly trained technicians work to ensure the safe and efficient operation of your industrial assets. Our chemical plant inspection services help you avoid costly disruptions by accurately evaluating asset integrity. Our innovative technology provides reliable analyses with minimal disruption to your production processes and schedules.
Alphacoreโs innovative nondestructive testing services help you maintain safe and effective plant assets.
Chemical manufacturing uses expensive infrastructure that must be evaluated on a regular basis. Alphacoreโs inspection programs for chemical plants lower the risk of asset failure and support the overall safety and productivity of your operations. Our vast expertise and knowledge in nondestructive testing means that we can select the right techniques and procedures to detect defects and irregularities in your equipment, production facilities and plant assets and provide you with necessary data to assist you in making informed decisions.
Typical chemical plant inspections include:
Alphacoreโs integrated solutions for the Food and Beverage Industry combine years of experience with leading technology to help protect your assets.
Our integrated approach ensures that food and beverage industry leaders meet all regulatory requirements to perform mechanical integrity inspections on refrigeration systems ensuring the reliability of equipment and systems and minimize the risk of accidental release of ammonia.
Alphacoreโs technically skilled and experienced staff of over 4000 technicians and network of 90+ branches ensure your equipment remains safe at all time.
Reliable, Repeatable Services Only Alphacore Can Deliver
Our comprehensive digital reporting exceeds our competitorsโ capabilities with mobile access.
The on demand, 24/7 access to inspection report information, both wall thickness and x ray images, can be viewed in the field at the point of inspection. No delay of returning to the office computer.
Each inspection point numbered tag will have a QR code that identifies specifically with that point in the system. All of vital information you are used to seeing on the report is linked. Inspection date, pipe size, wall thickness and variance percentage from new will help your crew work with confidence.
Alphacore designs and implements inspection programs including the following services:
We are pleased to serve many of the largest and most sophisticated industrial firms in the world including many manufacturing and processing facilities. Over many decades we have provided services to facilities including conventional and advanced non-destructive testing and examination (NDT & NDE), inspection, engineering, rope access enabled services (industrial services and NDT) and condition based monitoring services.
We understand that our manufacturing customers operate in a highly competitive environment and that production equipment needs to operate at optimum efficiency and without fail to ensure reliable, cost effective results. Our teams of technicians and engineers have helped many clients in this segment with maintenance plans and schedules including routine or emergency diagnostic procedures, and short or long term strategic asset integrity management programs with minimal disruption to production. We understand our clientโs pressure to continually be making productivity gains and it is with this goal in mind that we design solutions.
We are able to help our customers with their most critical areas of concern including:
In harmony with safety, quality, environmental and regulatory expectations, our teams are able to provide solutions to address even the most complex issues faced by manufacturing and processing facilities. Please contact us today to hear about our success with other facilities and how we can assist your team in creating a solution based on your goals and priorities.
Alphacoreโs technical experts provide both in-lab and on-site inspection of fabricated components. Fabricating can cause defects in the materials used and weldments and components must be inspected prior to use to ensure their integrity. Alphacore has over 40 years of experience evaluating fabricated components for flaws.
Count on Alphacore to provide quick, accurate and reliable inspection of your fabricated components.
Manufacturers rely on Alphacore to ensure that fabricated components are sound. Alphacore provides radiography, ultrasonic, magnetic particle, liquid penetrant and visual inspection options to evaluate components for weakness and discontinuities. Our certified and experienced technicians evaluate fabricated components for cracking, porosity, incomplete penetration, inclusions, lack of sidewall fusions and similar defects.
More problems occur at welds than anywhere else in fabricated components. Our welding engineers are experts in welding technology, procedures and code requirements for buildings, bridges, pipelines, heavy industrial machinery, railway track, boilers and pressure vessels, including all relevant AWS, ASME, API and CSA codes and standards.
Our experts work together to ensure that you have the answers you need:
Non-destructive testing technicians evaluate materials
Engineers design and test weld procedures, develop field weld repair methods
Together technicians and engineers perform QA of welding in practice
Engineers do forensic examination of failed welds
For over years Alphacore has been servicing the needs of discerning clients in the refining, extraction, petrochemical industries. We understand that in this highly complex environment productivity must remain high, while safety and operational integrity must always be top of mind. Aging assets present a real threat to equipment functionality, requiring thorough and precise monitoring. Inspection results must be readily available and reliable. You can trust the skilled professionals at Alphacore. Our long-standing relationships with many of the leading refining and petrochemical companies allow us to offer highly specialized talent and expert services to these industries. When you engage us, you can expect the commitment to quality, reliability, and safety that has earned Alphacore a leadership position in the industry.
Alphacore offers comprehensive inspection and rope access mechanical services to help you meet regulatory, insurance and industry requirements. Our professional staff is fully up to date on the latest standards and regulations ensuring a proactive approach to compliance. Alphacore has proven experience in addressing risk management, best industry practices and governmental regulations, and can reduce expenses and lessen the administrative burden associated with Compliance mandates.
Cost savings through increased reliability, decreased downtime, and reduction in access costs. Rope access has proven to be a reliable, safe, effective way to execute inspection and mechanical scopes alike.
Alphacore works to assist our oil and gas clients plan and execute inspection work while minimizing facility downtime.
Our on-site managers integrate crews with plant maintenance operations and refinery protocols and ensure we are working safely. They follow and train to our Refinery Playbook, a quality assurance document that is consistently updated with our best inspection practices. Important to our work is responsively adapting to changes in work scopes and juggling priorities within tight windows to achieve inspection objectives. Alphacore is able to mobilize as many as 150 qualified technicians within 72 hours to meet client requirements. We track our performance and report weekly using our Site Level Metrics programs, and through client.
Our dedicated service line approach for Pipeline Services ensures both high level customer care, and efficient management of resources and technology because we have specialized resources specifically allocated only to pipeline projects.
We are focused on efficiency and strategies to reduce the total cost for our customers. Our offering in a number of ways, including the ability to offer cathodic protection services. For a downloadable PDF outlining the details of our cathodic protection services including our new Hawkeye system, please click here. Our services for the pipeline industry can be broken into 2 categories: Pipeline & Facility Integrity Services, and Pipeline Construction. Pipeline & Facility Integrity Services
Pipeline & Facility Integrity Services Brochure Our comprehensive services include:
Owners manage the integrity of above-ground and buried pipelines with numerous systems and processes. However, there can be unforeseeable circumstances or system breakdowns which precipitate failures of piping and auxiliary equipment. Alphacoreโs highly experienced engineers can perform failure analysis, evaluate material properties, and suggest alternatives to materials, testing/monitoring procedures to help Owners prevent future occurrences. As part of the failure investigation / product evaluation, engineers assess the components in the field and/or laboratory which may include: Detailed analysis of pipeline fracture surface to determine failure mode/mechanism Determine if pipe meets the specified mechanical and chemical properties with laboratory testing Optical microscopy and scanning electron microscopy to evaluate material microstructure, flaws and fracture surfaces Determine presence of bacteria involved in microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC) Identify type of corrosion scales and foreign debris using x-ray diffraction (XRD) or energy dispersive x-ray (EDX) spectroscopy Perform burst testing of pipe to predict failure pressures, strain and fracture mode Crack Tip Opening Displacement (CTOD) testing to determine critical allowable flaw sizes in pipe welds Provide independent failure analysis and reports for regulatory bodies Watch our failure investigations video by clicking here.
The Alphacore Advantage
Committed to Excellence Our goal is to provide pipeline integrity programs, services and threat management programs to meet the increasing demands of our pipeline customers. Alphacore has dedicated years of training and resources to ensuring the value we deliver through our pipeline integrity programs far exceeds that of our competition.
Execution Excellence:ย dedicated pipeline integrity operation ensuring safety, quality and scope execution excellence
Specialization:ย technicians specifically trained and dedicated to supporting pipeline integrity programs rather than general NDE technicians
Damage Mechanism Capabilities:ย technicians have specific and intimate damage mechanism identification capabilities
Scalability:ย we have a pipeline integrity technician pool that spans North America
Multiple Disciplines:ย our pipeline integrity technicians have experience in multiple disciplines: coatings, cathodic protection, soils geology, inline inspection and NDE
Program Management: verification of log data, interpretation of inspection results and threat management Dedicated Personnel Centralized Management SCC Threat Management For more detailed information on our pipeline integrity services and approach, please download the PDF by clicking here.
Pipeline Construction
Our comprehensive services include:
Technology
Alphacore offers a range of Automated Ultrasonic Testing (AUT) services utilizing the latest in phased array technology combined with advanced pulse-echo techniques and Time of Flight Diffraction (ToFD) to provide the most flexible inspection solution available today. This combination of latest technology and software results in AUT being recognized as the most accurate method of detecting, sizing and repeatability of weld flaws for a fast and accurate assessment of welds in high production environments.
Alphacoreโs ongoing relationship with the leading power generation providers in North American, gives us unique unmatched insight. Our services for the power generation industry are designed to minimize downtime, improve productivity, and decrease costs by extending component life and planning ahead for the replacement of critical equipment as it nears end-of-life. When you engage us, you can expect the commitment to quality, reliability, and safety that has earned Alphacore a leadership position in the power generation industry.
CONSULTING SERVICES
At Alphacore, we believe results come from specialized teams who understand your process in general, and your mill or plant in particular. Weโll provide the right engineering experts who can offer cost-effective solutions to benefit your business. Alphacore consulting services for power plants include:
Alphacoreโs engineers have a solid reputation for providing accurate and definitive materials integrity solutions. Our internationally-recognized team has extensive field experience assisting power plants throughout all stages of equipment lifecycles including design, inspection, maintenance, repair, and failure analysis.
Our technically skilled and experienced staff of over 4000 technicians, engineers and managers deliver solutions to ensure operations run smoothly and safely. We leverage our 40 years of experience to choose the right technology and personnel for each job, ensuring cost-effective, reliable inspection results.
Alphacore provides innovative solutions to avoid expensive unplanned shutdowns.
Pulp and paper processes involve high temperature, high pressure, corrosive environments and high speed rotating equipment to convert wood to pulp to paper. To maintain efficient, safe and economical operations, maintenance shutdowns are scheduled. At these times, Alphacoreโs teamwork, knowledge and efficiency can be an essential part of evaluating critical assets such as boilers, digesters, piping, tanks, pressure vessels and rotating equipment.
Our project managers and engineers have worked with clients in most pulp and paper mills in North America.ย They will act in any capacity as part of your team to help develop safe, cost-effective and efficient inspection plans. Our specialists understand the complexities of running large jobs on tight timetables and are experienced integrating nondestructive testing crews with plant maintenance operations.ย If your project requires an advanced skill such as an experienced eddy current technician, a corrosion engineer, heat treat or stress relief on site, or a rope access technician for work at heights, Alphacore will ensure your schedule is met and quality, affordable results are achieved.
Beyond the range of traditional nondestructive testing services, Alphacore offers National Board certified inspectors and engineers, mechanical integrity (compliance to PSM), reliability engineering including vibration analysis and laser scanning, Risk Based Inspection (RBI), owner-user integrity management systems, project and turn around nondestructive testing supervision (i.e., administration, safety/quality, planning/scheduling) and audit services.ย Our engineers are leaders in welding, corrosion, Fitness for Service, Finite Element Analysis, failure analysis and off-shore quality assurance for the pulp and paper industry.