Tests and measurements for electrical fire prevention
This article reviews the fundamental causes of overheating, as well as, the tests and tools commonly used to uncover overheating problems.
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Implementing in infrared thermography maintenance program
This document outlines steps that will help you grow your thermography program into a key part of the way your company does business.
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Inspecting furnaces and boilers
In most cases, if only because of their high operating temperatures and their capacity to cause injury or death as a result of some failures, furnaces and boilers should be included in predictive maintenance (PdM) programs that monitor their condition while they operate. Read more...

Thermal Process Monitoring
Temperature monitoring can detect overheating delivery system components, help solve irregularities in electrical power supplies, predict operational machinery failure, detect blockages in supply pipes, and identify product inconsistencies. Read more...

Infrared thermal imaging cameras in petroleum and petrochemical processing
On a commonality between many petrochemical production equipment failures, whether lubrication, valve failure, tank settling or electrical-related, is temperature. That makes handheld thermal imagers, which capture two-dimensional images of the apparent surface temperatures of objects, a useful tool for regular predictive petrochemical maintenance. Read more...

Pumps, fans and compressors
While many people in the power generation industry are familiar with annual infrared thermography surveys as part of PdM, the coal plant in this case study uses a thermal imager year round. There are two differences in their approach. Read more...

HVAC Air leakage inspections
In energy audits of homes and other buildings, technicians use blower doors in conjunction with thermal imagers. The blowers create positive or negative pressures within interior envelopes, making leaks much more apparent in thermal images. Read more...

Motor control centers
One set of tools for monitoring equipment in substations is Fluke's handheld thermal imagers. Thermal imagers capture two-dimensional representations of the apparent surface temperatures of electrical components and other objects. Read more...

Teamwork tools and techniques: How one plant brought thermography in house
This article reviews the fundamental causes of overheating, as well as, the tests and tools commonly used to uncover overheating problems.
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Infrared inspecting for building and facilities maintenance
Surface temperature can tell you a lot about a building's structural elements, plumbing installations, and HVAC and electrical systems. Problems that are otherwise invisible to the naked eye are suddenly clear as day when you look through an infrared lens. Read more...

Pro Tips: Examining tanks and vessels
Normally, people in industry use level indicators to tell how much product is inside a tank. So why do so many of them also use thermal imagers (infrared cameras) to do the same thing? It's because of the horror stories.
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Applying infrared thermography to predictive maintenance
This document discusses the cost savings of thermal imaging (thermography) PdM, provides guidelines for successfully capturing and analyzing thermographic data and describes how to integrate thermography into a predictive maintenance program. Read more...

Why thermography is good for your business
Electrical contractors typically use thermal imagers for predictive maintenance and troubleshooting, and sometimes during installation.
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