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ZW-Art Engineering started in 1996 as a service oriented company for calibration and maintenance of UT immersion test equipment for rotating parts of Turbine engines in the USA. Being intimately familiar with the design and the construction of the NIPSCAN immersion inspection system in which I was instrumental during my employment with NUCON. ( for details see History)

Many systems were installed with General Electric customers. In Jay Schraan from ITI we found the perfect match for the marketing and sales side of the contracts.

During a service visit later in 1996 at General Electric Aircraft Engines (GEAE) in Cincinnati, GEAE showed interest in an upgrade of a TESTEC UT immersion tank. This tank has a liftplatform and was originally designed and intended for the GE 90 parts. ZW-Art Engineering retrofitted the machine with a new Z-axis, gimbal, all the wiring, electronics, computer, motors. The retrofit was designed and implemented in 5 months.

After that succesfull project GEAE made a request for an automated Eddy Current Scanner. ITI / ZW-Art Engineering designed and manufactured the hardware, electronics and wiring in State College USA. The software was developed by Robert van Amsterdam. The machine named EzEddy is sold by ITI to many customers, (to name a few, GEAE Cincinnati, GE Varig, THAI Air, SNECMA, GE Wales, ANA, GE Japan, JAL, KLM ). The EzEddy is also sold to AIMS for distribution at the European market. The EzEddy was designed and implemented in 6 months. Currently 22 EzEddys have been sold world wide.

In 1998 GE proposed a smaller version of the EzEddy, the EzScan, it was developed for small airline companies and so far two were sold, GEAE QTC and Air India.

In 2000 ZW-Art Engineering changed its name into ZW-Art Mechatronics Inc. Based in State College, USA.

In 2004 ZW-Art Mechatronics Inc. decided to recontinue the development of automated UT scanning systems.

ZW-Art Mechatronics Inc. and vAmsterdam software engineering are dedicated to the design, engineering and manufacturing and maintenance of high tech automated inspection sytems. We are there with the design but alos with the maintenance so that the customer can be insured that they always have the best man on their job. Every piece of equipment Johan and Robert have designed since the first NIPSCAN in 1990 is still fully operatonal.