Thermal imager aids predictive maintenance

Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Jul 11, 2003

The ThermoView Ti30 thermal imager is the first product to allow plant maintenance personnel with minimal training to conduct cost effective and highly accurate predictive maintenance inspections.

The ThermoView Ti30 thermal imager is the first product to allow plant maintenance personnel with minimal training to conduct cost effective and highly accurate predictive maintenance inspections and equipment troubleshooting.

The high performance, multi-featured ThermoView imager is designed to maximise predictive maintenance and inspection payback in utilities, pharmaceutical, petrochemical, pulp and paper processing and other manufacturing and production facilities concerned with asset protection, increased productivity, quality control and reduced downtime.

The ThermoView imager's affordability and ease of use makes it the low cost way to expand the frequency and reach of an existing predictive maintenance program in which expensive imagers may be unavailable for additional inspections.

"For the first time facilities that have felt the cost of predictive maintenance based on thermographic inspections to be too prohibitive, now can establish a serious program relying on the cost-conscious ThermoView imager", says Fernando Lisboa, ThermoView Imager Product Manager and Portable Division Director of Marketing.

"Now everyone can easily begin predictive maintenance programmes and analyse and report their findings".

To assist those new to predictive maintenance, Raytek will provide prospective customers with an assessment of their predictive maintenance needs.

Purchasers both knowledgeable and new to predictive maintenance will benefit from imaging training included with every unit shipped, and designed to facilitate payback and emphasise electrical and mechanical applications.

An interactive user guide included with every ThermoView Ti30 imager provides product information, thermography applications, and infra-red theory.

Rugged, yet lightweight (1kg), the ThermoViewTi30 imager provides fast image scanning and radiometric measurements on a large LCD screen.

Images are saved for downloading into companion Inside IR thermal analysis and reporting software.

ThermoView Ti30 thermal imager capabilities include: a measurement range from 0 to 250C; adjustable emissivity and reflected temperature compensation; a long wavelength spectral range of 7-14um; accuracy of +/- 2% or +/-2C; repeatability of +/- 1% or +/-1C, whichever is greater; optical resolution of 90:1; and a storage capacity of 100 temperature calibrated images and data.

The manufacturer's suggested list price for the ThermoView Ti30 imager is US $9950.

A carrying case, universal power adapter, docking station, pouch, wrist strap, rechargeable battery packs, USB interface cable, Inside IR software, a CD interactive user's guide and two days of training are included.

The ThermoView thermal imager is the first of a family of infra-red imaging products being developed for the predictive maintenance market by Raytek.