1. Themography settles debates quickly. How often do group of engineers sit in meetings speculating on why, for example, a production lot failed release testing?
   

   •	Is heat flowing to nearby parts in a welding operation?
   •	Is a mold cooling asymmetrically, or at a different rate than it used to?
   •	Is there a hot spot in a drying operation?

   
   How about settling these debates quickly? Just point a thermal imaging camera at objects in production. Review the temperature maps. You're done - no more meetings. Because thermography is non-contact, there is often no need for special experiments. Create temperature maps of production actually taking place. Scrap no parts after the study - nothing is touched.
   


2. Data from Thermography has high adjudicating power when confronting questions about a thermal system.
   
   

   •	It has higher spatial resolution than a thermocouple. It gives dimensional information that thermocouples don't provide. It does not act as a heat sink for small objects.
   •	It contains all of the boundary conditions that FEA only assumes. This becomes increasingly important as objects get smaller. What FEA programmer understands the material anisotropy, residual stresses, weld quality, machining variation, or surface contaminants that exist for your tiny part? That's why Thermography is used to validate FEA models - not the other way around.

Indispensible Applications for Thermography
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Wet Targets
Targets in Motion
Sterile Targets - including anatomy in sterile fields


Fragile Targets
Small Targets (thermocouple would act as heat sink)
Targets Undergoing Rapid Temperature Change
(IR radiation travels to your camera at the speed of light; avoid contact resistance)


Visualizing Heat Flow Into Tissue from Thermal Ablation Devices
Measuring Temperature in Environments that turn Themocouples into RF antennae


Targets Destroyed or Changed by Contact
(Electrically) Hot Targets
Targets Changing Surface Chemistry


Validating FEA models - **Hugely important for those in regulated industry**
Visualizing Wear
Targets in Production


Demonstration Video for Marketing - show clients a thermal product in action!
Video Record of Stress Tests


Detection of Contaminants - odd thermal trajectories
PCB Design Verification
Inferring Corrosion in Mold Cooling Channels


Numerous Targets in One Scene
Targets That Are Long Distances Away


Process Validation where multiple pieces of equipment make the same part
Design Verification testing
Measurement Data for Heat Diffusion Simulations or Calculations - non FEA


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Why not see if thermography will settle your long-standing questions? It will reduce risk of a bad decision in R&D. You wouldn't release a production lot on one sample tested? Why leverage your biggest design decisions on a single point estimated by a thermocouple?

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