X-ray imaging suite
In-house imaging suite & acquisition workstation
Overview
The in-house imaging suite is the software and high-end acquisition workstation that turns raw X-ray data into a decision: fully customisable image processing paired with the compute to run it, already deployed in defence, aerospace and industrial applications and widely used for real-time radiography inspection. It integrates with any detector, carries a wide range of image-processing and enhancement tools, and includes built-in ASTM-standard routines for validating detector performance so results stand up to audit. Because it is fully customisable, an operator can shape the review workflow, the defect tools and the reporting to their own inspection standard rather than accepting a foreign vendor's fixed workflow. It can drive manipulators for automated inspection and add an optional CT module with built-in automatic 3D reconstruction, letting a facility scale from real-time radiography to volumetric tomography on one software backbone. For a nation building its own inspection capability, it is the layer that keeps the imaging standard, the tooling and the data firmly under national control.
The software and workstation that turn X-ray data into an audit-ready decision, fully customisable to the operator's own inspection standard, with the tooling and data kept under national control.
Capabilities
- Fully customisable image-processing software paired with a high-end acquisition workstation
- Deployed in defence, aerospace and industrial applications and widely used for real-time radiography inspection
- Seamless integration with any detector and a wide range of image-processing and enhancement tools
- Built-in ASTM-standard tools for detector validation so results stand up to audit
- Option to integrate with manipulators for fully automated inspection
- Optional CT module with built-in automatic 3D reconstruction, scaling from real-time radiography to volumetric tomography on one backbone
- Customisable workflow, defect tools and reporting shaped to the operator's own inspection standard
Specifications
| Type | X-ray imaging suite + acquisition workstation |
| Detector support | Integrates with any detector |
| Validation | Built-in ASTM-standard detector-validation tools |
| Automation | Optional manipulator integration |
| CT module | Available under controlled technical briefing |
| Customisation | Fully customisable processing, tools & reporting |
| Deployment | Defence, aerospace & industrial; real-time radiography |
| Origin | Independent / non-aligned |
Why Unstrat: the difference
Unstrat is the authorised global representative and distributor for this capability. It is already in service with a track record behind it, so you are buying something that has done the job elsewhere, not funding a first attempt. You are not the test bed.
Independent, non-aligned origin, with no political exposure to any major-power ecosystem.
One accountable team from first briefing through delivery and in-region sustainment.
Fully customisable imaging suite, deployed in defence, aerospace and industrial applications, with an optional CT module and manipulator integration.
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Procurement & sustainment
Classification and the end-user-certificate chain are confirmed before this capability is represented to your market.
Sourced from an independent manufacturer: no major-power disclosure rules or political conditions.
A single team responsible from first briefing through delivery: not a chain of foreign primes to integrate yourself.
Lifecycle support and operator training delivered in-region, building capability that outlasts the initial deployment.
Questions buyers ask
Best X-ray inspection software for industrial radiography
Decide first whether you need analysis or the whole chain. VGSTUDIO MAX is the strongest analysis product in our comparison, covering CT reconstruction, segmentation, material analysis and dimensional work, and it does not acquire an image or drive a manipulator. The Imaging Suite covers acquisition against any detector, image processing, ASTM-standard detector validation, manipulator integration and reporting, supplied with the workstation to run it.
See: Suite specificationAgainst VGSTUDIO MAX, Geminy and Revalution
Alternative to VGSTUDIO MAX
It depends what you are replacing. For pure CT volume analysis, VGSTUDIO MAX is excellent and worth its licence, with editions from Essential to Pro. What it does not do is acquire the image or control the motion, so it is half of an inspection cell and the half that never touches the hardware. Our suite covers acquisition, processing, defect tooling and reporting, with an optional CT module carrying automatic 3D reconstruction.
X-ray software that works with any detector
The Imaging Suite integrates with any detector, which is what makes one review standard possible across mixed hardware. Comet Yxlon's suite is presented as coordinated with its own inspection systems and Nordson's Revalution ships with Nordson machines; neither is published as a detector-agnostic acquisition product. One caveat we should state plainly: we do not publish a list of supported detector interfaces or file formats, so ask for it against your installed hardware.
Does the software include CT reconstruction?
As an option. The suite adds a CT module with built-in automatic 3D reconstruction, so a facility can scale from real-time radiography to volumetric tomography on one software backbone rather than retraining on a second product. VGSTUDIO MAX includes CT reconstruction as core, with deep segmentation requiring accelerator hardware, and Nordson offers µCT as an option alongside X-Plane slice views.
Software with built-in ASTM detector validation for audit-ready results
The suite carries built-in ASTM-standard tools for validating detector performance, which is what lets an inspection result survive an audit rather than rest on an operator's word. None of VGSTUDIO MAX, the Comet Yxlon suite or Revalution publishes detector validation as a feature. If your quality system is audited annually, this is the row to check first.
See: Standards validation comparedValidation tools in the suite
Imaging software that drives manipulators for automated inspection
The suite integrates with manipulators for fully automated inspection, which matters when the same cell has to run unattended screening as well as manual analysis. Volume Graphics automates repeating analysis workflows and states compatibility with nearly every CT system, but it does not drive the motion. Comet Yxlon and Nordson both automate within their own machines.
One review standard across a mixed fleet of X-ray machines
Bundled software is convenient until you own two brands of machine. A depot with mixed-vintage cells ends up with three interfaces, three training regimes and three report formats, none of which a certifying authority enjoys. Because the Imaging Suite integrates with any detector and carries customisable processing, defect tooling and reporting, one review standard can sit across the whole estate, including older cells kept in service rather than replaced.
Is the acquisition workstation supplied with the software?
Yes, the suite is supplied with a high-end acquisition workstation, so the compute is specified against the imaging load rather than left to your IT department. Volume Graphics supplies software only and states typical requirements of a 3 GHz or faster multi-core processor with 64 to 512 GB of RAM for industrial data sets. Nordson's Revalution runs on the Quadra 7 Pro under Windows 11 with a 40 inch monitor.
See: Software and workstation togetherHardware supplied compared
Can inspection software keep our data inside our own jurisdiction?
It can if the vendor has no reason to route it elsewhere. None of the three competitor sources addresses data residency; Volume Graphics lists sales and support through Hexagon entities in Germany, Japan, the United States, China and Singapore. Our suite is supplied from an independent, non-aligned source with the workstation on your premises, so the images, the defect calls and the reports stay where you put them.
Who owns the inspection standard if the software that enforces it is written by a foreign vendor?
In practice, they do. Every vendor here offers customisation of a sort: editions in VGSTUDIO MAX, wizards and presets in Geminy, stored operator layouts in Revalution. What none of them offers is changing what the software does when your acceptance criteria change. Our suite is fully customisable in workflow, defect tooling and reporting, developed by the same organisation that supplies the inspection cells, so the standard lives with the operator rather than in a foreign roadmap.
See: Customisation compared honestlyCustomisable workflow and reporting
Is the suite deployed in real inspection work or is it a companion tool for your own machines?
Both, and the first matters more. The Imaging Suite is deployed in defence, aerospace and industrial applications and is widely used for real-time radiography inspection, paired with a high-end acquisition workstation. It is also the review layer behind our own inspection cells, which means it runs against production workloads every day rather than in demonstration.
We want to modernise ageing X-ray cells without replacing the hardware. Is that realistic?
Usually, yes, and it is the cheaper project. The constraint is rarely the tube or the cabinet; it is a review layer that cannot produce a modern report or validate the detector. A suite that integrates with any detector, carries ASTM-standard validation tools and can drive manipulators lets an old cell keep working under a current standard. Where the motion is also worn out, a custom manipulator can be fitted into the existing vault.
See: Detector-agnostic acquisitionRetrofitting motion into an existing vault
Do we need CT analysis software, or is radiography review enough for most decisions?
Start with radiography and buy the path to CT. Most production decisions are made on 2D images, which is why Nordson offers X-Plane slice views without additional CT hardware. CT earns its cost on porosity volume, internal geometry and dimensional work, which is where VGSTUDIO MAX is strong. Our optional CT module with automatic 3D reconstruction sits on the same backbone, so a facility scales without retraining on a second product.
See: Radiography and CT on one backboneWhere each product is strongest
What is not published about the suite that we should ask for before a tender?
Three items. Supported operating systems and minimum workstation specification are not published, where Volume Graphics and Nordson both state theirs. The licensing model, whether perpetual, subscription, per-seat or floating, is not published. Nor is a list of supported detector interfaces and file formats behind the claim that the suite integrates with any detector. Ask for all three in writing and compare them against the competing quotes.
How does inspection software fit into a national capability rather than a single machine purchase?
The software layer is where the inspection standard actually lives. Hardware can be bought from several places, but the accept-or-reject logic, the report format and the archive define what the state considers airworthy or safe to fire. Keeping that layer customisable, validated to ASTM references and supplied by an independent, non-aligned team keeps the standard, the tooling and the data under national control rather than inside somebody else's product roadmap.
See: Suite and national controlHow the capability areas fit together
X-ray imaging suite: questions
What is X-ray imaging suite?
X-ray imaging suite is Unstrat's Land (Land Domain) capability: The in-house imaging suite is the software and high-end acquisition workstation that turns raw X-ray data into a decision: fully customisable image processing paired with the compute to run it, already deployed in defence, aerospace and industrial applications and widely used for real-time radiography inspection. It integrates with any detector, carries a wide range of image-processing and enhancement tools, and includes built-in ASTM-standard routines for validating detector performance so results stand up to audit. Because it is fully customisable, an operator can shape the review workflow, the defect tools and the reporting to their own inspection standard rather than accepting a foreign vendor's fixed workflow. It can drive manipulators for automated inspection and add an optional CT module with built-in automatic 3D reconstruction, letting a facility scale from real-time radiography to volumetric tomography on one software backbone. For a nation building its own inspection capability, it is the layer that keeps the imaging standard, the tooling and the data firmly under national control.
How does X-ray imaging suite work?
X-ray imaging suite delivers its effect through fully customisable image-processing software paired with a high-end acquisition workstation, Deployed in defence, aerospace and industrial applications and widely used for real-time radiography inspection and Seamless integration with any detector and a wide range of image-processing and enhancement tools, capabilities matched to the requirement and confirmed under briefing rather than published.
Who makes X-ray imaging suite?
X-ray imaging suite is built by The NDT Systems House, whose focus is non-destructive testing. Unstrat represents The NDT Systems House to government and enterprise buyers worldwide as an independent, non-aligned prime vendor.
Who uses X-ray imaging suite?
Government and enterprise buyers acquire X-ray imaging suite to address ageing defence electronics across the land domain, matched to the mission and accountable to them, not to a foreign vendor's government.
Why choose X-ray imaging suite over a major-power alternative?
X-ray imaging suite is sourced from an independent, non-aligned manufacturer, so it carries no major-power disclosure rules, upgrade-locks or political ramifications. Concretely: fully customisable imaging suite, deployed in defence, aerospace and industrial applications, with an optional CT module and manipulator integration. The capability is accountable to you, not to a foreign vendor's government and its release schedule.
How is X-ray imaging suite procured, and where can it be exported?
The software and workstation that turn X-ray data into an audit-ready decision, fully customisable to the operator's own inspection standard, with the tooling and data kept under national control. Every engagement begins with a briefing, and export eligibility is confirmed per market under briefing rather than published. Where controlled capabilities are involved, the classification and end-user-certificate chain is confirmed first. X-ray imaging suite is then sustained in-region by one accountable team from briefing through long-term operation.