{"id":473,"date":"2020-10-11T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-11T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.extende.com\/blog\/first-north-american-civa-user-group\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T18:52:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T16:52:17","slug":"first-north-american-civa-user-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.extende.com\/fr\/blog\/first-north-american-civa-user-group\/","title":{"rendered":"First North American CIVA User Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the <span class=\"g-color2\">NDTMA conference<\/span> in February 2020, <span class=\"g-color3\">Sensor Networks<\/span> management suggested to <span class=\"g-color1\">Extende Inc.<\/span> VP <span class=\"g-color1\">Erica Schumacher<\/span> that they co-host a <span class=\"g-color1\">CIVA User Group meeting<\/span> at their State College, PA facility. The idea was proposed upon learning about the <span class=\"g-color2\">2019 CIVA User Group meeting in the UK<\/span> and wanting to have a similar exchange of information in the USA. After much discussion, plans for the event were made and CIVA users in the USA and Canada were invited to attend and present.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>While the original plan was to hold a 1.5 day in-person event, like many other events this year, we made the decision to transition from an in-person event to an all virtual user group meeting. We also decided to shorter the event to a half day.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Approximately <span class=\"g-color2\">40 people<\/span> attended the meeting from throughout the <span class=\"g-color2\">USA and Canada<\/span>, working in industries ranging from <span class=\"g-color2\">nuclear<\/span>, to <span class=\"g-color2\">oil and gas<\/span>, <span class=\"g-color2\">transportation<\/span> and <span class=\"g-color2\">aerospace<\/span>. <span class=\"g-color2\">Four users presented on their applications<\/span> of CIVA UT. For those of you that did not attend, the presentations are now available <a class=\"lien\" href=\"https:\/\/www.extende.com\/ndt-simulation\/documentation\/publications-on-civa-and-ndt-simulation\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"(Nouvelle fen\u00eatre)\">on our website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Based on the success of this event, we plan to have a<span class=\"g-color1\"> CIVA User Group meeting<\/span> <span class=\"g-color2\">in the USA in 2021<\/span>.\u00a0 It is too early to know if we will be able to hold an in-person event next summer. For 2021, we would like to <span class=\"g-color2\">increase<\/span> the number of user <span class=\"g-color2\">presentations<\/span> and <span class=\"g-color2\">expand the methods<\/span> that are presented. If you are working with CIVA UT, ET, RT, CT or GWT, we encourage you to <span class=\"g-color2\">share how you utilize it<\/span> to more effectively meet your NDT challenges at the 2021 User Group. More information will be provided in 2021.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The <span class=\"g-color1\">EXTENDE<\/span> team.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the NDTMA conference in February 2020, Sensor Networks management suggested to Extende Inc. VP Erica Schumacher that they co-host a CIVA User Group meeting at their State College, PA facility. The idea was proposed upon learning about the 2019 CIVA User Group meeting in the UK and wanting to have a similar exchange of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-civa-software"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.extende.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.extende.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.extende.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extende.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.extende.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5774,"href":"https:\/\/www.extende.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions\/5774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extende.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.extende.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extende.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extende.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}