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FROM THE EDITOR

Mega Trends in Condition Monitoring

After more than two decades of development, many aspects of reliability have begun to converge into a tightly integrated discipline. Why is this happening now? In highly capitalized businesses, gains in productivity resulting from investments in ERP, Supply Chain Management and other powerful productivity systems are beginning to flatten out. We might call this phase the human capital optimization cycle. Businesses are now working on achieving increased profits by focusing on capital equipment optimization. Large software systems vendors like SAP and IBM are offering sophisticated systems to manage capital equipment, while equipment vendors including Emerson and GE are designing enterprise-wide tools to provide condition-based monitoring. The goal is to be able to "drill down" into diverse systems to find opportunities for increased utilization of assets.

Organizations including MIMOSA are working to create standards that will enable managers to drill down through diverse and often proprietary systems, including PdM modalities and extract the data needed to compile information into simple-to-understand metrics that can be tracked. This convergence is ongoing and powerful competitive incentives are fueling this paradigm shift in managing capital assets.

New In-Camera Routing and Enhanced Data Collection Creates a New Class of Infrared Camera

New Camera Features Include:
•	Create Location Lists
	This feature enables you to create custom databases for different locations with all the related equipment and their attributes for easy selection within the camera.

•	Create a Route in the Field
	The camera enables the user to create a route by adding inspection points taken during a normal inspection survey. This natural approach is highly effective and is an easy way to get started with route-based inspection.

•	In-Camera Prompts Direct Survey
	The camera features prompts that instruct the operator to the next point in the inspection cycle. In-camera comments provide specific instructions about the equipment point.

For our comprehensive White Paper titled "Integrated Route Based Infrared Inspection", click here or the download button at right.

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NFPA 70E—Arc Flash Resource Center
Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace and Thermography Best Practices

NFPA 70E, Arc Flash, and Safe and Efficient Thermography Practices

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NFPA 70E, Arc Flash, and Safe and Efficient Thermography Practices presentation

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Estimates indicate that 10-15 serious arc flash incidents — those that result in burn injuries requiring treatment in a burn center — occur each day in the US, so it is not surprising that awareness of the hazards associated with arc flash continues to grow. Concerns about operator safety in the event of an arc flash event are causing inspectors of high voltage switch gear to adopt new practices.

What is an arc flash?
An arc flash is caused by a phase-to-phase or phase-to-ground short circuit. The release of the energy is in the form of plasma with virtually unlimited current carrying capacity. An enormous amount of radiant energy explodes outward from the electrical equipment creating pressure waves and a super heated ball of gas that can severely burn anyone in it path.

Thermography best practices series:
Benefits of Automatic Multi-page Reporting Software

Learn how recent advances in software and camera user interfaces have reduced time and expense to generate multi-page reports. The paper also examines how integrated in-camera data logger software reduces data entry error and improves training efficacy.

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Meet the Team

We are pleased to introduce our newest team members.

TIM CALLENBACH
Western Regional Sales Manager

Tim will be supporting our thermography sales representative in the western US and western Canada. Tim has over 10 years of digital imaging experience and is an expert in high-speed data acquisition.

tcallenbach@sofradir-ec.com

LAUREN VANDE VAARST
Product Sales Specialist

Lauren is your product sales specialist in the northern US States, Canada and Asia. Lauren has many years of technical product sales experience and was most recently involved with distributed fire and security systems.

JEFF KOON
Southeastern Regional Sales Manager

Jeff will be supporting our thermography sales representative in the south and southeast. Jeff has been our area sales representative and has over 10 years of experience in thermography sales and applications support.