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[My name is Peter Landschutz.]
[ [♫ Easy listening guitar ♪]]
[My job is the program manager]
[for the Ultrascan Duo Tool, an ecomagination product. ]
[We are here in Stutensee, Germany at the GE facility.]
[I've now got to put on my safety glasses.]
[ [♫ easy listening guitar ♪]]
[The Ultrascan Duo Tool is the latest in technology for finding cracks]
[and metal loss in the pipelines.]
[These defects can present problems.]
[Ultrascan Duo Tool is going in these lines,]
[collecting data, and providing information to correct these problems]
[before something like that should occur.]
[I'm David Allen. I'm the site leader here in Stutensee, Germany,]
[and I'm also the product line leader]
[for the crack detection products that we develop]
[and build and service from this location.]
[I'm Jochen Sturm. I'm working for PII Pipetronics.]
[My name is Uwe Fix. My job title is Senior Inspection Supervisor]
[and also Crew Chief for the Duo Tool.]
[This big machine, it's a Duo Tool.]
[It's called in this way because it can do two things]
[and we can also look for cracks during one run]
[with special sensors inside, with the Phased Array]
[The Phased Array Technology allows us to]
[create a much tighter form of sensors]
[in a very small space which allows us to have a much higher resolution,]
[and we can set the tools specifically for each pipeline condition.]
[It's a unique tool, and it`s the first time they put Phased Array Technology]
[out from the medical in such a kind of environment. ]
[I think a lot of people are familiar with the ultrasound technology.]
[When they go in for the 20-week ultrasound test,]
[they're using the GE ultrasonics Phased Array Technology there,]
[just like we are for our Ultrascan Duo Tool.]
[Brigitta, my wife, she's a gynecologist,]
[and with the same tools of GE, she has a look on cancer.]
[She has also to look for babies in pregnant women. ]
[I'm looking for cracks in pipelines. That's interesting as well.]
[I guess she likes it more to look for babies]
[than looking for cracks and metal loss.]
[ [ ♫ easy listening guitar ♪ ]]
[Well, the guys are now ready--]
[join me to have a look on what they are doing there.]
[The pipeline operators are operating their pipelines]
[in environmentally sensitive areas. ]
[They're also seeing the population densities around these pipelines increasing.]
[They want to know the depth to the best accuracy we can estimate,]
[and they also want to know what the crack profile looks like. ]
[Accuracy of the tool allows us to deliver the information they need.]
[I feel very strongly about what we do here.]
[We're helping customers manage their pipelines.]
[Preventing disasters--from that standpoint,]
[I think it's very important what we're doing.]
[Our inspection tools are called pigs, yeah? Normally, we call them pigs]
[Because we've got pigs. Here are ]
[some chickens on the site, just to--]
[It's silly to talk about chickens, yeah?]
[No, it-- I thought about it as an introduction, yeah?]
[Because not everyone knows about pigs, yeah?]
[That is coming from the Romans, because the Romans used pigs--]
[the skin of pigs--to clean their ]
