ABSTRACT In the UK, the NDE community is making a coordinated effort to underpin and enable the full benefits of the large-scale trend toward comprehensive digitalization and automation of industrial processes and assets, frequently referred to as “Industry 4.0”. Certain facets of what is now considered to be NDE 4.0 have been the subject of research for some time and have already gained industrial traction, while others are quite new, with unexplored potential and pitfalls. However, in these areas there is scope for learning from progress in fields outside of, but related to, NDE such as dimensional metrology. This paper reviews progress to date based on UK activities, considers some planned and potential research tasks in this domain, and highlights the major challenges the NDE community must tackle. In particular, as interoperability and data reuse are key features of Industry 4.0 practices, international and cross-domain efforts on data format standardization are needed. It is clear that, without the NDE community stepping up to the challenge, much of Industry 4.0 cannot be realized; yet if the NDE 4.0 vision is implemented comprehensively, NDE has the potential to become more capable, more valuable, and therefore more highly valued.

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英国在 NDE 4.0 方面的进展

摘要在英国，无损检测社区正在协同努力，以支持和实现工业流程和资产全面数字化和自动化的大规模趋势，并使其充分受益，通常被称为“工业 4.0”。现在被认为是 NDE 4.0 的某些方面一直是研究的主题，并且已经获得了工业牵引力，而其他方面则相当新，具有未开发的潜力和陷阱。但是，在这些领域中，可以从无损检测之外但与无损检测相关的领域（例如尺寸计量学）中吸取经验教训。本文根据英国的活动回顾了迄今为止的进展，考虑了该领域的一些计划和潜在的研究任务，并强调了 NDE 社区必须解决的主要挑战。特别是，由于互操作性和数据重用是工业 4.0 实践的关键特征，因此需要在数据格式标准化方面进行国际和跨领域的努力。很明显，如果无损检测社区站出来迎接挑战，工业 4.0 的大部分内容就无法实现；然而，如果 NDE 4.0 愿景得到全面实施，NDE 有可能变得更强大、更有价值，从而更受重视。