Study of cost benefits of identification of non-problems with infrared thermography

摘要

Justifying the costs of starting and maintaining an in-house IR thermography program is essential in ensuring continued funding and sponsorship. Cost benefit studies, whether brief and general, or strictly formalized, tend to focus on costs associated with projected equipment failure and production downtime. While these numbers can be quite dramatic, their validity rests on acceptance of the predicted failure which is inevitably the subject of some conjecture.