Thermography
Use Infrared Thermography for Electrical Applications
Syed Munawer Hasan goes through examples of thermography’s success in detecting electrical anomalies, including a pump in a boiler house…
- Syed Munawer Hasan
- Plant Asset Efficiency Solutions
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
Arc Flash Studies: Why and When Are They Required?
For employees to work on exposed live (energized) circuits, an arc flash hazard assessment is needed to determine the incident energy available at the equipment and what personal protective equipment (PPE) is needed to work safely...
- Michael Levitt
- Allied Reliability
What is Infrared Thermography?
Syed Munawer Hasan explains concepts of infrared thermography including infrared rays and the electromagnetic spectrum…
- Syed Munawer Hasan
- Plant Asset Efficiency Solutions
Cost Avoidance Within the Infrared World
Who does cost avoidance? What is it? Where would you apply it? Why would you worry about it? These are the questions that one should ask themselves. Most of the time is spent doing the physical work and analyzing that data to determine the condition or health of the equipment rather than thinking what our group did to save the company money. This article explains the methodology we used and why you should care about cost avoidance.
- Patricia Warner
- Cummins Inc.
Check Sheets- Something is Missing, I Think…
Have you ever completed an infrared survey and wondered if you’ve missed something that should have been inspected? Do you know the special safety instructions to open certain electrical cabinets? Has management ever asked you when was the last time that you’ve inspected a specific cabinet and you couldn’t answer them? If you have answered yes to any of these questions, you need to develop a check sheet for the equipment that you inspect.
- Patricia Warner
- Cummins Inc.
Nine Steps to Setting Up an Infrared Inspection Program
Infrared inspections are now a matter of routine for many commercial and industrial facilities. By proactively addressing incipient or latent failures detected during a single inspection, facility managers are able to avoid costs associated with unscheduled downtime and damage to electrical and mechanical equipment. Even greater savings can be achieved through...
- Jim Seffrin
- Infraspection Institute
What is an Arc Flash & Arc Blast?
An Arc Flash is an energy discharge of light and heat that forms when a fault occurs in an electrical circuit. The arcing results in a tremendous amount of energy being released as current flowing through ionized air. An Arc Blast, separate from an Arc Flash, is a supersonic shockwave produced when the uncontrolled arc vaporizes the metal conductors.
- Martin Robinson
- IRISS Inc.
How Does the Infravision Application Work and How is a Thermographic Inspection Done?
Thermographic inspections offer many advantages as it helps to ensure a safe working environment and an increase in uptime. It also provides companies with accurate insights into the risks that undermine the continuity of their production lines (and the possibility to actively reduce these risks).
- Chris Kramer
- I-care