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Faultless predictions at Seawork
01 Jul 2008
It is a hand-held thermal imaging camera, sensitive enough to pick up the tiny heat peaks that come from hydraulic or electrical component breakdown (or immanent failure) without having to take machinery apart.
MacGregor's engineer Oliver Munday demonstrated how the unit worked at the Seawork exhibition in Southampton last month. He explained that the biggest advantage of thermal imaging is being able to 'see' inside sealed units. 'It is a non-intrusive procedure, you don't need to take the machinery apart to find out what is going wrong, he said.
Read the full story in Maritime Journal.
And as to Seawork next year? Macgregor will be back with a bigger stand!
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