thermography
Two Minute Tips
Sensor Fusion: The Path to Proactive Plant Maintenance and Operational Excellence
A powerful approach for improving plant maintenance programs is the integration of multiple sensing technologies to improve coverage of machines and different failure modes. This can be further complemented by effective analysis of the data from all the different sources. When using multiple sensors like this, it is called Sensor Fusion...
- Alan McCall
- Sensoteq
Webinars
Safe & Accurate Electrical Inspections with Thermography
Electrical asset inspection and maintenance is not just one of the most important tasks in a facility, but it is one of the most dangerous as well. The proper use of thermographic technology is vital to retrieving accurate data during an inspection to properly trend the health, performance, and condition of critical electrical assets. The process by which the data is collected must be focused on allowing the inspector to achieve accurate readings of the equipment, while at the same time providing a safe environment for the inspector to avoid the risks of electrocution and arc flash.
- Martin Robinson
- IRISS Inc.
Articles
The Key to Machinery Reliability
The goal of Minnkota’s PPM (planned preventative maintenance) Team is to use their technologies and resources to provide the workers with safe, reliable operating equipment and make a positive impact on their maintenance...
- Tod Baer
- Minnkota Power Cooperative Inc.
Five Minute Facts
Magnetic Stick Inspection-From Oil Line to Every Gearbox Daily
Magnetic Stick Inspection - for the oil line to every gearbox daily to make sure that they are not damaging anything.
- Brian Borg
- InfraBuild Steel (formerly Liberty Steel)
10 Minute Talk
Implementation of Best Practices in Condition Monitoring
Rolling stand vibration analysis - Issues with data collection Mill stands have had manual vibration data collection conducted monthly since 2010 and although this method was beneficial in finding issues such as alignments, looseness, bearing and gear wear We were still having delay events caused by faster-moving defects in between manual readings.
- Brian Borg
- InfraBuild Steel (formerly Liberty Steel)
10 Minute Talk
Four Electrical Failure Modes
Electrical failure modes can be divided into four main categories. This tip will briefly discuss these categories and their associated thermal patterns to help the field thermographer better understand and identify thermal anomalies found in the field...
- Roy Huff
- The Snell Group
Webinars
The Infrared Component of Your Condition Monitoring Program
During this webinar we will briefly describe the components that are needed to optimize the performance and therefore your ROI...
- Roy Huff
- The Snell Group
Five Minute Facts
What’s the Best Color Palette?
What is the best color palette to use for your infrared camera and program? There are several factors to contemplate when selecting a palette for use in the field and additional considerations when selecting a palette for analysis and reporting. This tip will briefly describe some options to scrutinize when deciding what the best palette is for you.
- Roy Huff
- The Snell Group
Five Minute Facts
You Can See It, but Can You Measure It?
Just because you can see an anomaly does not mean you can radio-metrically measure it using an infrared camera. The concept of spatial and measurement resolution is one of several reasons and will be briefly described in this 5-minute fact...
- Roy Huff
- The Snell Group
