I have to agree with Walt that there is a dearth of standardization on the use of ultrasound technology, whether airborne or structureborne. There is some movement to address the problem but it is slow due to the lack of personnel (companies) willing to spend the time to attack the problem. ISO Technical Committee 108, Sub Committee 5 (TC108/SC5), Condition Monitoring and Diagnostics of Machines, has formed a Working Group to address ultrasound as a condition monitoring technology. We have a small group and would invite anyone interested in joining in the effort to develop these standards to e-mail me or contact their national standards activity to become involved. Either the users can set the standards or they can sit on their hands and wait for the manufacturers to decide what they want to give us.

Ken Culverson

Ken,
I would be very interested to participate.

Best Regards,
Tom Murphy

Tom,

E-mail me off line and I can give you a little of what we have done so far. Also, get in touch with BINDT in London about participating. The UK is involved with this and has a lot of input on acoustic emission technologies.

ken dot culverson at shawinc dot com

We would be glad to address any issues and participate in establishing standards regarding where ultrasonic condition monitoring technology is today and future.

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As a vendor-neutral and non-manufacturer of airborne ultrasound, and as a trainer of how to use airborne ultrasound equipment I would be happy to participate.
Jim H

I suggest your committee to have non-expert learners, observers or volunteers but who are definitely stakeholders from companies or industries to learn the ultrasound technology for condition monitoring standard from its development stage so that upon completion of the standard, there would be a sufficient number of people for its application and thereby minimal lead time to its adoption by companies or industries.

If there are experts only in the Committee, I'm sure the standard will be completed but the learning curve for its adoption will be stiff and long time because potential applicants are not involved.

Dear Josh,

ISO is made up of national standards bodies. Each country decides whether to participate in the standard making activity of each technical committee and at what level. Each country also nominates their own people to serve on the committee so the committee has no control over who attends. It costs each country some amount to participate in the work and ISO, of course, does not pay any of the participating experts to do the work. It is up to the individual country to work out such arrangements.

Please be assured that many of the "experts" in the working group are people who use the technology, not design and build it. The standards are heavily vetted by many people in each of the participating countries to help ensure that the standard can be implemented.

Ken Culverson