At MH Integrated Systems we provide condition – based monitoring using IR thermography scanning in finding hotspots caused by defects in cabling connections and components.

IR scanning mainly used as a preventive measure and can help in early detection of faulty equipment and cabling connections, thus preventive repairs can be done to prevent major loss. This can control cost through less downtime and reduced spare parts inventory, ensuring that your organisation’s infrastructure facilitates significant financial savings.

Infrared thermography is based on the concept that the object which has absorbed heat or at some temperature value higher than the ambient or surrounding environment will emit infrared radiation (heat flux) at different wavelength.

The IR thermography method uses a thermal image scanner or camera to record the heat flux which was emitted as infrared radiation. The thermal image describes the distribution of the surface temperature that will detect the defects in the subsurface of the material tested. Because of different thermal coefficients between the sample surface and the ambient, the heat will flow in different ways (thermal wavelength) and also at different rates thus results in a different temperature distribution on the surface of the sample with respect to the defects in the tested material.