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Thermal Trend

What do thermographers do while

they are conducting Infrared PdMInspections?

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The Report - or is “the cart in front

of the horse?”

• We eep focusing on the report that the

thermographer pro!ides "ecause it has all

of the nice looing thermograms with all of

the "ells and whistles#

 $ spots% lines% histograms etc&

• 'ut we loose site of what the

thermographers does while he performs

his inspection(

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What Thermographers do while

conducting inspections

• There are specific acti!es (not including

working with a IR camera) that

thermographers perform while they are

conduction there inspections&

• 'y understanding what there specific

acti!es are% and there re)uirements we

can "etter aid the thermographer in doinghis *o"&

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Primary acti!es $ not including

scanning with the IR camera&

• +ocating , finding what e)uipment is to "e

inspected&

• diting , updating the e)uipment list&

• Indicating what e)uipment was tested during the

inspection

• Reconciling pro"lems from pre!ious inspections&

• .ocumentation $ /ew pro"lems that ha!e "een found

 $ Re-documentation of pre!ious pro"lems

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Time , 0cti!ity

1!er 234 of thethermographerstime is spentdealing with

in!entory tass&The rest is spent

documenting thepro"lems&

These are tass thatre)uire theutili5ation of someother type ofe)uipment otherthen the IRcamera&

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Typical method of conducting a IR inspection

6lip"oard - Paper and Penmethod

Taing a clip"oard , note

"oo around with#• In!entory of what is to "e

tested&

• In!entory forms forentering new,updating

e)uipment lists• Past “1pen” pro"lem lists

to "e reconciled&

• Pro"lem forms for enteringnew,updating pro"lemconditions

Thermographers Actives / Tasks

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There are “7uestions” that must "e

answered during an inspection&

• What e)uipment is to be tested ?• Where can I find the e)uipment?• What is the most efficient route to tae during the

inspections to find the e)uipment?

• Was the e)uipment tested last time?• What e)uipment was not tested during this inspection?• What e)uipment still needs to be tested  during this

inspection?• Is there a new problem on it?

• 8as there "een a problem documented in the past?• What was the past pro"lem?• 8as the past pro"lem "een fixed or gotten worse?• How much worse?

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The real trick is… how are you

going to come up with the

answers?

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Paper and pen?

• .espite all of the inno!ati!e ideas that the IR camera manufacturesha!e come up with to date to mae the IR camera a# $ .ata collection de!ice? $ Word processor?

/one can honestly help a thermographer answer all the questions that hefaces e!ery day during his *o"&

•  0 tremendous a"out of data is re)uired to "e on hand if the answersare going to pro!ided& 0nd it needs to "e in the right% structuredorder to "e easily retrie!ed&

• It can "e done with Paper and Pen "ut it re)uires a lot of crossinde9ing to "e in a form that wors in the field% on the fly& 0ll of thepre!ious inspection data must accompany the thermographer whilehe performs his inspection& This solution practically re)uires ali"rary cart "e pushed around&

• /ot the most efficient% "ut it will get the *o" done(

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Thermal Trend and The Pocet P6

• Today we ha!e a lot of options when itcomes to field force automation,datacollection&

• 0ny application can "e ported o!er to aPocet P6% lie sho!ing :; pounds ofchocolate in to a 3 pound "o9(

• 'ut the distinguishing point "etween

success and failure of a good idea is"ased on designing around what the "asicre)uirements are% and eeping it wor flownatural to the end user&

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Thermal Trend .ata"ase <low 6hart

.ata"ase

 0ll of the te9t data

Inspections

Route

Items,Pro"lems

IR images = >P photos .@ - 0ttachments

8istory of , Time o!er Temperature Trending

.etails , @pecific to a Item

Thermal Trend uses a

intuiti!e hierarchical

order Ata" !iew

na!igationB% that allowsfor the Thermographer

to easily mo!e "etween

tass , acti!es , data as

his needs change during

the inspection&

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Inspections ta"Real data#

:3 inspections o!er :: years of datawith 2C3 pro"lems found%

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• What e)uipment is to be tested ?

• Where can I find thee)uipment?• What is the most efficient route 

to tae during the inspections tofind the e)uipment?

• Was the e)uipment tested lasttime?

• What e)uipment was not testedduring this inspection?

• What e)uipment still needs tobe tested  during this inspection?

• Is there a new problem on it?• 8as there "een a problem

documented in the past?

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• Is there a new problem on it?

• 8as there "een a

 problem documentedin the past?• What was the past

pro"lem?

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Time o!er temperature

trending(

• 8as the past

pro"lem "een fixed

or gotten worse?

• How much worse?