While COVID dampened demand early on, the skills gap and labor shortage that has plagued the industry for more than a decade is still in full swing. As new NDT methods advance, quality professionals require new training, and technicians transitioning from film techniques to non-film techniques need hands-on experience.

First, what is an NDT training program? Various codes and standards have varying definitions of exactly what is required for an NDT training program to be considered acceptable.

Despite offering workers an average annual compensation of $84,832 in 2017, manufacturers struggle to fill positions. 

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More than 60,000 manufacturing jobs were brought to the United States by reshoring and foreign direct investment combined in 2014