Infrared Inspections
Infrared (IR) inspection is a diagnostic tool that can be used to help identify conditions that cause outages and equipment damage. IR inspections of both overhead and underground equipment are a safe and cost-effective way for utilities to understand the operating condition of assets and implement or compliment a predictive maintenance strategy.
A properly executed IR inspection program can help utilities achieve reliability and safety goals by:
- Identifying hotspots (defective equipment) in electrical systems
- Reducing potential outages, catastrophic failures, and safety hazards
- Helping to protect expensive equipment
- Enhancing critical circuit inspections
- Reducing emergency repairs
- Improving power quality by identifying poor connections
- Improving System Average Interruption Duration Index (SAIDI) and System Average Interruption Frequency Index (SAIFI) metrics
Osmose's infrared inspection programs provide:
- Utilizing IR crews with experience performing over 50,000 line miles of inspections per year
- Using best-in-class high-performance IR field equipment from FLIR to improve issue detection
- Maintaining a level-III thermography certification
- Providing under-load inspection of both overhead and underground equipment
- Creating detailed reports, online incidence maps, year over year (YOY) annual reports, and compliance audit trails
