How can thermal imaging help increase the life span of your property’s assets with facilities maintenance?
Thermal imaging is a non-invasive and powerful tool that can be used to both monitor and troubleshoot faults, helping to maintain equipment and its value by implementing thermography into your facilities maintenance programme.
What is Predictive Maintenance?
Predictive maintenance is the process of preventative action taken to keep companies in full operating condition along with all equipment and resources to help prevent the likelihood of failure, reducing the risk of unplanned repairs and downtime which can be costly.
How Will Thermal Imaging Help You?
Thermal imaging surveys are used widely for recognising temperature differences of objects and people. The inconsistencies found in the temperature readings are then interpreted by our qualified engineers who will determine if a fault has been detected and how you should go about rectifying the issue.
By identifying these variances, you can work out what actions are needed need before those anomalies start to cause you greater problems; this allows you to amend your maintenance schedule so repairs can take place during a shut down that suits you and not when a major incident has occurred.
Processes like this allow managers to respond to any detected defects promptly and save on maintenance costs and call out charges in the future. If inspections are carried out regularly and repairs are dealt with as soon as possible your assets will, in turn, live for longer.
What Maintenance Applications Can You Use Thermal Imaging For?
A lot of the inspections we conduct are related to facilities maintenance from the simple analysing of electrical components, to the efficiency of the building itself. But that’s not all:
Building Maintenance –
Inspecting the property for defects is an important part of the maintenance programme as several factors can be determined at once, such as construction faults, air leaks, damp and mildew as well as leaks in flat roofs.
Electrical Installations –
Detect issues like internal fuse damage, poor connections where cabinets may be overloaded, as well as oxidation of switched and electrical leakage. All of these scenarios can result in costly failures and can’t always be seen by the naked eye.
Mechanical Inspections –
Mechanical components can be a very important part of keeping your business running. Infrared cameras can help identify overheating machinery and equipment as well as misalignment and lubrication issues detected through temperature differences.
Plumbing Issues –
Thermal imaging surveys can help find hidden leaks in pumps, pipes and valves so you can get an overview of your entire installation, making the fault-finding process much quicker. We can also use the thermal cameras to check the efficiency of your air conditioning and central heating, keeping you and your employees happy.
What Will You Receive from Us?
Pre-Site Visit –
Depending on what it is we are to inspect, we may schedule a visit to the site before the official survey takes place, allowing us to plan out the route and discuss the process further with you.
Risk and Method Statements –
We will issue you with a site-specific risk assessment and method statement (RAMs) so you are fully aware of the process of our inspection.
High-Quality Images –
We use the most up to date infrared cameras from FLIR so you get the highest quality inspections, with exceptional accuracy and high-resolution images on all of our findings so you can see the fault at hand.
Report of Findings –
Once we have completed the survey, you will receive a detailed report of our findings, featuring thermal and digital photos as well as recommendations from our fully trained and certified level 1 and 2 engineers.
Thermal Trending –
We will carry out thermal imaging surveys on your site, as often as you want us to. Sending you the newest report each time so you can see the thermal trends from our findings. This means you can see how your assets perform over a set time frame.
Reliability –
As a company who has been around protecting you for over 25 years, we have plenty of experience when it comes to finding anomalies, no matter how hidden they may be. Our engineers all take part in regular training courses so they're up to date with current procedures and practices. As well as our safe contractor certification demonstrating just how seriously we take health and safety.
To find out more about how we at Thermascan can help you and your business keep running and save money, get in touch today with one of the UK's leading specialists in thermal imaging surveys.