Source: Teledyne Flir/MentorAPM
The MentorLens asset lifecycle management platform is expanding its asset intelligence capabilities with thermal imaging through an integration with Teledyne Flir’s iXX-Series of thermal-imaging cameras. Adding thermal data to the condition assessment process gives asset-intensive organizations another source of information to better understand physical assets and support maintenance, reliability and asset management decisions. By adding thermal information to MentorLens’ AI-assisted visual condition assessments, teams can capture nameplate, visual condition and thermal information from the same device and bring it into the asset record. This helps build more complete and current asset information to support maintenance, reliability and asset management decisions. That information can feed into MentorAPM’s native enterprise platform or work alongside an organization’s existing EAM or computerized maintenance and management system (CMMS), allowing teams to add asset intelligence without replacing their core system.
In industrial operations, the value of a thermal inspection is determined less by the image itself than by what happens to it afterward. Files are moved from an SD card to a laptop, thermal metadata is altered or lost along the way, and findings end up in a folder rather than in the system where maintenance work is actually planned. Running natively on the iXX-Series, the MentorLens app removes that handoff. Images upload from the camera directly to the asset record with their thermal data intact, and technicians can create new assets or update existing ones without leaving the camera. All Flir imaging and hardware controls remain available, including MSX, palette selection, lamp and laser, so the same device that captures the thermogram also captures the nameplate photo and the condition photo. — MentorAPM, Phoenix, Ariz.; and Teledyne Flir, Wilsonville, Ore.