Whether employed by a service provider or trained in-house, certified thermography analysts engage in daily tasks centered on monitoring machinery health. They gather thermographic data, employ software tools to analyze it, identify any anomalies or irregularities, and produce detailed reports with maintenance recommendations or further investigation. Through close collaboration with maintenance teams, they troubleshoot issues, contribute to predictive maintenance planning, and uphold optimal machinery performance while consistently refining monitoring techniques.
Thorough documentation of analysis findings and maintenance activities is essential, enabling trend tracking and informed decision-making regarding ongoing machinery health and operational efficiency. Therefore, integrating thermography analysis outcomes into Asset Performance Management (APM) software like Spartakus can yield numerous benefits for technicians overseeing industrial machinery.
How to report Thermography rounds in Spartakus?
This consists of 2 simple steps:
- Technician goes in the field for his route.
- Back at his desk :
- The analysis is done in the IR software.
- The reporting is done in Spartakus APM.
What are the advantages to report thermography analysis in Spartakus instead of traditional excel/pdf?
1. Accelerated reporting tools
More than 100 PdM analysts in North America use Spartakus APM daily.
They all agree that there is an average 25% gain in reporting time with Spartakus compared to excel/word.
Why? Because Spartakus APM comes with advanced reporting and visualization tools. These tools can help the technician report thermography data more effectively.
Our optimized reporting process for quick and accurate diagnostic include:
- Assets in logical (walking) order
- Previous measurements information and history
- Attach pictures (drag n’ drop screenshots)
- Pre-fill a thermography route with previous results and only focus on what has changed
Spartakus’ thermography routes reporting tool
2. Standardized reporting habits for easier onboarding of new employees
Spartakus APM provides standardized reporting tools to ensure consistency in technicians’ data entries, including standardized codes, observations, and recommendations presented in dropdown lists. Additionally, reporting within Spartakus simplifies the generation of detailed, standardized reports. Users can still extract PDF or Excel reports from Spartakus APM for easy sharing across teams or with higher management, promoting collaboration and ensuring uniform access to insights.
Spartakus’ PDF report sample
That leads us to one of the key elements of Spartakus APM: the enablement of better communication regarding maintenance needs or machinery performance.
3. The asset health dashboard: the communication channel that was missing!
The primary objective of Spartakus APM is to consolidate thermography analysis outcomes alongside other PDM technologies or PM inspections and lubrication rounds.
Rather than having reports and data dispersed across various formats, everything is centralized, simplifying access and analysis of historical trends and patterns. This structured data streamlines decision-making processes and enhances the detection of potential issues. Moreover, integrating thermography analysis findings with data from other sensors or maintenance records offers a holistic perspective on machinery health, enabling more informed decision-making.
4. Quickly create work orders in your CMMS from Spartakus
Spartakus APM easily integrates with many 3rd party software, especially CMMS like SAP.
Thermography technicians can gain valuable time by creating work requests in their CMMS directly from Spartakus APM. Their CMMS would then return the work order status as it gets planned, scheduled, completed, closed, etc.
5. Deploy with mobile rounds
Finally, new tools from IR technologies manufacturers can be integrated within the Spartakus APM’s mobile app to easily deploy temperature reading rounds. Screenshots can be automatically saved, as well as temperature measurements which can be trended afterwards in the desktop app.
In essence, integrating thermography analysis results into an APM software like Spartakus not only improves the efficiency of data management but also enhances the ability to derive actionable insights for predictive maintenance, thus optimizing the overall performance and longevity of industrial machinery, while increasing the productivity of thermography analysts.