Prevent Failure to Your Motors & Bearings

The greatest enemies to equipment are friction and heat. Those two factors combine to cause the majority of equipment failures in any industry. With regular infrared inspections, dangerous heat buildup can be identified, saving your equipment, time, and money. Rotating equipment, pulleys and drive belts, high bearing and oil temperatures, HVAC components, boiler, and chiller units, to name a few, all can be inspected quickly without inconveniencing your facility’s business.

Advantages of Thermal Equipment Analysis

• Reduces insurance cost
• Extends your equipment reliability
• Reduces downtime through preventive maintenance
• Increases safety
• Offers planned maintenance scheduling

Mechanical Thermal Imaging Results

Infrared Thermal Imaging can be a valuable resource in the assessing your facilities electrical systems:

• Heating in mechanical systems, most often due to frictional heating. (Assessment applications include bearing condition, steam leaks, tank level and location of piping)
• The identification of failed conveyors bearings and components. (Imagine simply walking underneath a conveyor containing thousands of bearings and easily picking out the failures.)
• Detection of failing bearings on large or difficult to reach locations not readily covered by vibration analysis.
• Building envelope studies for heat loss, cold air infiltration and moisture migration including wet insulation and the presence of mold.

Thermal Inspection to Decrease Downtime

Example of Mechanical Thermal Imaging

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