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JENTEK Sensors, Inc. LinkedIn
A note from Dr. Goldfine, our Founder
JENTEK was founded in 1992 to address the need for improved inspection and enhanced life management of high-value assets (pipelines, risers, refineries, aircraft, rotorcraft, UAVs, spacecraft, ships, power plants) and for quality assessment and control of high value-added processes (coatings, welding, heat treatment, shot peening), and more recently for additive manufacturing of both new parts and repairs. JENTEK has reorganized our application focus into two target areas: (1) non-contact, in-process inspections and sensing for advanced industrial processes; and (2) portable and automated nondestructive evaluation (NDE) systems for challenging problems that cannot be solved well using conventional NDE/NDI/NDT. JENTEK’s mission is to help customers qualify their products, machines, and processes while enhancing performance and mission capabilities by reducing costs, improving efficiency and safety, and increasing functionality and value. We are also committed to delivering technological innovations that drive and accelerate progress across the industries we serve.
JENTEK’s products are now standard practice for critical component inspections in both the U.S. military and commercial OEM sectors. Our patented technologies and products offer unique, cost-effective solutions to address challenging customer needs, and JENTEK has delivered numerous integrated systems to the aerospace, defense, energy, manufacturing, and consumer products industries.
Customers include Fortune 500 companies, the U.S. Air Force, Navy, and Army, as well as first-tier prime contractors and international systems integrators. Our systems have helped customers achieve documented safety improvements and generate savings of hundreds of millions of dollars. More recently, our customers and strategic partners include universities and advanced manufacturing machine vendors that are integrating JENTEK systems into the next generation of production and repair systems and processes.
JENTEK is built around a core of dedicated engineers and scientists who have been with JENTEK for more than a decade several of whom earned Ph.Ds. from MIT’s Laboratory for Electromagnetics and Electronic Systems). Its products and approach have been recognized with high-profile awards. JENTEK’s team has won the Navy’s Outstanding Phase III Transition Award after successful delivery of several high Return-on-Investment solutions to U.S. Navy Depots, the FAA/Air Transport Association “Better Way” Award for engine component inspection technology, and the National Tibbetts Award in recognition of outstanding contributions to the Small Business Innovation and Research program. The team also received the ASNT “Best Paper Award” for innovative surface mounted/embedded eddy current fatigue sensor linear arrays and rosettes. JENTEK’s President Dr. Neil Goldfine received the 2020 ASNT Innovation Award.
JENTEK makes both portable and on-line systems that include unique and patented parallel architecture electronics, rapid data analytics/machine learning software, and unique patented sensors called MWM-Array® technology (jenteksensors.com). Note that JENTEK has over 60 patents with recent seminal patents issued for in-situ sensing for additive manufacturing of metals using Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) and Direct Energy Deposition (DED). JENTEK’s IP position is established and strategic.
JENTEKS’s in-situ sensing solutions for LPBF and DED address a pain point for end-users and remove the primary barrier to qualification of 3D printed high margin aerospace, nuclear and other critical metal components. By introducing the potential for layer-by-layer detection of 200-micron defects, we offer a practical alternative to computed tomography (CT), which is often costly, time consuming and often not practical. This new capability can enable the vision of “born qualified” parts and distributed, on-demand manufacturing. The ability to qualify such parts remains the primary bottleneck to broader deployment of LPBF and DED technologies across the defense industrial base and high-value commercial sectors. For example, as U.S. casting capacity declines, even replacing that diminishing capability requires effective qualification of these parts. JENTEK’s solutions for LPBF provide substantial opportunities for high return on investment (ROI) for end-users and component manufacturers by (1) identifying poor quality early in a build to avoid wasted time and resources, (2) enabling qualification of higher margin parts without CT, (3) detecting defects in not only the most recent layer, but also subsurface inspection of the prior 3 to 8 layers to determine if defects have remelted, and (4) with anticipated advances, by enabling real-time feedback to heal defects by adjusting laser patterns and processing.
In February of 2025, JENTEK successfully demonstrated an integrated solution for laser powder bed fusion (LPBF), confirming that JENTEK’s sensing technology is critical and necessary for LPBF part qualification to meet DoD and high-end commercial requirements. JENTEK has several customer funded initiatives ongoing and pending. There is competition for LPBF in-situ sensing, of course, but JENTEK solutions offer higher spatial resolution and better defect detection performance, with additional capabilities that include metallurgical property and geometry imaging (e.g. edge tracking for internal feature surface roughness measurement) that are also game changing for end-users.
JENTEK anticipates accelerated growth with its new in-situ sensing and portable nondestructive testing solutions and is looking for a strategic partner investment to complete the new product line launch, build sales capacity and fund targeted application qualification efforts.
Neil Goldfine, Ph. D.
Engineering-Science Services
Goldfine Serviços Tecnológicos do Brasil
