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Vibration Level 1 Certification
November 27-30, 2007
Mississauga, Ontario (just 15 minutes from Toronto)
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Field Balancing
June 30, 2008
Holiday Inn Select
2565 Argentia Road
Mississauga, Ontario
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Case Studies
InfraRed Imaging Solutions Inc. (IRIS) has helped hundreds of customers improve their safety, maximize productivity and equipment reliability, improve energy consumptions, and increase profitability through the reliable and professional services it delivers and the equipments it sells.
Vibration Analysis
InfraRed Imaging Solutions Inc. provides consulting services for manufacturing plants across the country. At a food manufacturing plant in Burlington, Ontario, vibration data is collected and analyzed every 90 days on 65 critical motors and pumps using the DLI Watchman DCX diagnostic data collector and field analyzer. Analysis of a 250 h.p. motor/pump combination showed that the shaft bearings on both the pump end and motor end were improperly sized. Repair costs were $2200. If production would have continued, it would have resulted in complete mechanical failure and a replacement cost exceeding $17,000. The overall cost for lost production would have been $85,000 per day.
Airborne Ultrasound
A Windsor, Ontario auto parts manufacturing plant was experiencing compressed air problems. The facility’s two compressors were running for an inordinate amount of time. The engineering/maintenance department assumed a third compressor was needed at a cost of $75,000. Instead, they elected to invest $1600 plus travel expenses to contract the services of InfraRed Imaging Solutions Inc. to provide them with an airborne ultrasonic inspection.
During the two day inspection, the certified ultrasound technician/millwright detected 78 compressed air leaks accounting for an estimated total air loss of 295.5 cfm (cubic feet per minute)—amounting to 25.7% of total system capacity. Considering it costs approximately $50,014 per year (calculated at $.04/kilowatt/hour) to operate the two compressors at a total of 1,120 cfm, correcting the air loss saved the plant $13,000 per year. The plant also avoided spending the $75,000 on a new compressor, due to the fact that after all leaks were repaired, the existing compressors were adequate to supply demand.
Infrared Thermography
In March 2003, InfraRed Imaging Solutions Inc. was contracted by a Northern Ontario utility. Several severe anomalies were detected during the infrared thermographic inspection. One of these was a #2A Bank 220/66kv transformer feeding several hundred customers. The infrared inspection detected no oil flow through the radiator fins. This was diagnosed due to the thermal variance between radiators. If the transformer had overheated, the station would have tripped. Furthermore, the transformer was designed to provide 20-25 years of service. Operating at 110 centigrade over design would have reduced the transformer life by 6-8 months.
Potential losses:
Loss of revenue to utility: $6,000 - $7,000 per/day
Loss of customer good will: Priceless
Loss to customers’ businesses: $5,000 - $10,000 per/day
Labor and repair : $30,000 - $40,000
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