With one of the most expansive rental fleets across the continental United States, the inspection of stringing lines is a daily, ongoing effort at Wagner-Smith Equipment Co. Even with standardized procedures in place, manual visual inspections of the...
Established in 1917, Wagner-Smith Equipment Co. has been synonymous with line-stringing equipment for as long as the industry has existed. As a trailblazer for generations, the company has excelled in designing, producing, renting, and servicing over...
We are thrilled to share a monumental achievement in our journey towards clearly safer operations! Scope’s innovative rope inspection technology, Scope Control, has successfully inspected an impressive two million feet of overhead stringing/pulling ...
Over the past year, you may have noticed our relative silence—a decision we made intentionally. We took this time to refine our purpose, direction, and strategy to better serve our customers and ensure our organization was on the right path. Through...
Another milestone for the revolutionary technology that will enhance accuracy of rope inspections, reduce risk of failure, and increase operator efficiencies in the utility sector. HOUSTON – Scope Computer Vision Technologies, an inspection automatio...
Currently, there is zero recognizable compliance around the safe life remaining in a rope. Let me repeat this. Worldwide, there is not a realizable or maintainable level of compliance for when a user should retire a fiber rope. Why is this? In orde...
Milestone for revolutionary technology that will enhance safety inspections for industrial ropes, increase operator efficiencies and reduce costs HOUSTON – Scope Computer Vision Technologies, an inspection automation company that builds deep learning...
Determining the safe life left in a rope has always been an issue for those who use it in just about any operation. It is a problem that has spanned millennia and countless generations of seafarers and users of rope. The knowledge of how to use rope ...
Before today, understanding the health of a rope product was painful, if not impossible. The inspection of a critical rope application relies on human-visual inspection, which means that someone inspects the rope by hand and uses their best judgement...