Case Studies

How Skygauge Robotics saves time and money on UT inspections. The Skygauge Inspection Drone provides a safer alternative to conventional UT inspection methods at height while saving customers both time and money. Rope access is the most cost-effective conventional method for conducting UT inspections at height. This comparison study demonstrates the money and time saved when using Skygauge compared to a rope access inspection team when conducting a UT inspection of five welded steel storage tanks at an oil refinery.

How Skygauge Robotics saves time and money on UT inspections. The Skygauge Inspection Drone provides a safer alternative to conventional UT inspection methods at height while saving customers both time and money. Rope access is the most cost-effective conventional method for conducting UT inspections at height. This comparison study demonstrates the money and time saved when using Skygauge compared to a rope access inspection team when conducting a UT inspection of five welded steel storage tanks at an oil refinery.

Conducting ultrasonic and visual inspections on a cargo ship is a monumental task. The process is costly and slow. Skygauge offers a better way. Our drone removes the need for scaffolding entirely, and conducts UT scans 10x faster than a human operative without a decrease in accuracy. The Skygauge automatically compensates for surface movement due to waves and wind, enabling operations in harsh conditions.

Scaffolding is slow and expensive, but it is often the most effective way to bring workers - especially unskilled or semi-skilled workers, to locations at height. If you have 40-60 inspection points around a storage tank, you often have no choice but to spend hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars to erect scaffolding. This case study demonstrates how using the Skygauge Inspection Drone instead can save you time and money, while keeping your workers safe on the ground.

Industrial chimneys are critical pieces of infrastructure, which cost refineries, factories, and other industrial sites millions of dollars in downtime during inspections. Traditionally, inspections involve using a boom lift to take the UT inspector to various points across the chimney stack, slowly working through hundreds of test points manually over the course of multiple days. The chimney must be shut down for the duration of the job. This comparison study demonstrates how the Skygauge can save you time and money by conducting the inspection remotely, while the stack remains operational. It demonstrates how our technology is faster, cheaper, and safer than traditional methods.