IR Infrared
For many years, maintenance departments across
industries have used thermal imaging to acquire valuable information on mechanical
assets and electrical systems in the plant; yet thermal image analysis is often
at odds with the rest of the maintenance program. Thermal imaging programs have
operated mostly outside of the route-based vibration programs and machinery
health database, particularly if collected by an outside service. Even if the
data had been uploaded to the database and tied to the appropriate assets, the
ability to use that data was extremely limited. The ability to manage
and analyze thermal image data in the same database
with - vibration and oil analysis data simply was not available... until now.