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Adavned Inspection Technologies is product to now offer a new thermal camera. The New VisIR® 320-P with Condition RED® database and software introduces point-and-click efficiency into your Predictive Maintenance programmes.Capture, Analyse, File, Trend, Report - VisIR 320-P takes it in its stride at the touch of a button. VisIR 320-P delivers outstanding images from a sensitive 320 x 240 uncooled infrared sensor with precise temperature measurement and unique time-saving tools. VisIR 320-P complements the existing VisIR 640-P camera with a lower resolution and cost to address the needs of the wider Predictive Maintenance market. With a rugged industrial housing, articulated central optics pod for safe ergonomic operation and large high contrast touch screen, VisIR 320-P provides high definition thermal and visual image clarity in all lighting conditions.

Visit Advanced Inspection Technologies on the NDT Source BookQuality magazine's NDT source book is an industry listing of the best companies in the non destructive testing(NDT) field. Advanced Inspection Technologies can now be found on quality magazine's NDT Source Book. The new listing is among excellent company in the Non Destructive Testing and Remote Visual Inspection community. The latest borescope, videoscope and fiberscope instruments are available for a wide variety of remote visual inspection applications. Borescopes, Videoscopes and Fiberscopes are used by NDT engineers to visually inspect remote and difficult to access areas. Typical applications include inspecting castings, turbines, machinery, small tubing, pipe lines and other impossible to reach areas.

When customers do a serious comparison between the Testo 875-1i Infrared Camera and it’s rivals they always choose the Testo 875-1i. The testo 875-1i Infrared camera has many technical advantages before one even holds the Infrared camera in their hands for a close up evaluation. When the specification of the Flir i5 & i7 ( AKA Extech i5 & i7) Infrared cameras are compared to the Testo 875, the Flir i Series simply comes up short.

Image Resolution: All Testo 875 Infrared Cameras utilize a 160 x 120 Thermal Detector. This is compared to a 80 x 80 for the Flir i5 (Extech i5) and 120 x 120 for the Flir i7 (Extech i7). This gives the Testo 875 infrared cameras a 3:1 advantage over the Flir i5 and nearly a 2:1 advantage over the Flir i5 and i7 infrared cameras when comparing resolution.

Operation Time: All Testo infrared cameras come with robust Li-ion rechargeable batteries with 5 hours operation time. Importantly, the Testo 875 thermal camera battery can be removed and recharged either in the infrared camera or in an optional external charger. The Flir i series and Extech i series infrared cameras only have an operation time of 4 hours when fully charged. The Flir or Extech i5 and i7 battery is not removable and therefore not replaceable. The only possible way to charge the Flir or Extech Infrared cameras is to plug the camera into the wall.

Focus: All Testo infrared cameras come with the ability to manually focus the camera. All thermographers understand that the most important function is to simply focus the camera to produce a sharp image at any distance. Unfortunately, the Flir and Extech i5 and i7 have a fixed focus. This means that the person holding the infrared camera needs to physically move forward or back and hold the camera steady to obtain a usable image. Sometime it is simply not possible to move closer or further away and therefore not always possible to achieve a clear image with either the Flir or Extech i5 and i7.

Reporting Software: All Testo 875 Infrared Cameras come with advanced reporting software that allows thermographers to produce professional report for their customers. Testo’s advanced infrared reporting software allows users to change the palette, emissivity, background temperature, Add multiple reporting tools and isotherms. This is a far superior reporting generation package than that offered by Flir or Extech.

Outstanding Ease of Use: The Testo 875 Infrared Cameras are all designed for both entry level and experienced thermographers. The simple menu of the Testo 875 is easy to understand and navigate through all features. Taking and image could not be easier - Just one press of a button. The Testo 875 is preferred by virtually everyone that has the chance to experience both the Testo 875 and the Flir i5/i7 (Extech i5/i7).

Advanced Inspection Technologies (AIT) was contacted at 10:00 PM on a Friday night and asked if it was possible to have an industrial pipe inspection camera sent to the Crystal River Nuclear Power Plant as soon as possible. AIT always places the customer first and understands the urgent needs of the industrial customers we cater to. It has happened in the past and it will continue to happen. Industrial plants will be in a planned or unplanned outage and need to inspect a critical system before returning the plant to operation. Frantic calls go out looking for video borescopes and pipe inspection cameras in the middle of the night. Most companies work on a 9 to 5 schedule and are not able to assist late in the night. AIT did answer the phone as part of their unique 24/7 service philosophy and provided the Crystal River plant with a pipe inspection camera by 2:30 AM. AIT is proud of their responsive customer service for industrial remote visual inspection applications.

Micro borescopes are typically used to remotely inspect the smallest application. Some remote visual inspection applications require access through tiny holes that are less than 2.0 mm (0.078 in). A micro borescope or mini borescope may be semi-flexible or rigid. Typically these small borescopes are limited in length and direction of view is 0° forward with the option for side view mirror sleeves.

These small inspection areas provide remote visual inspection professionals with many challenges. The access dictates the inspection requirements more than any other factor. The smaller the inspection area the more limited the choice of micro borescopes available and the number of manufacturers of these mini borescopes. Finally, Due to the nature of a micro borescope, it is more susceptible to damage. Users need to be aware of the limitations of smaller diameter borescopes and fiberscopes and work within these.

Applications for Micro Borescopes:

• Engineering & Manufacturing. Micro Borescopes provide cost-effective examination of internal structures without tear down. A micro borescope allows engineers to check for pitting, cracking, corrosion, erosion, weld and other defects.

• Quality Control. Micro Borescope instruments allow manufactures to inspect components for defects. Mini borescopes provide the ability to inspect internal components, bore holes, castings and other manufactured items such as turbine blades, automotive components, circuit boards, rifle barrels and welds.

• Castings. Micro Borescopes can be used to inspect inside casting of engine blocks and other high quality casted components. Micro Borescope instruments as small as 0.5 mm in diameter and larger are offered to accommodate all casting inspection needs.

IT Concepts recently launched a new video that is worth sharing with any interested remote visual inspection user. The new video shows a variety of the different videoscopes or video borescopes offered by Advanced Inspection Technologies. New products include the iSeries Videoscope. The iSeries videoscope can be interchanged from system to system and allows end users to have one videoscope or video borescope system with multiple lengths and diameters. The iTool Videoscope is also shown. The iTool Videoscope offers a complete industrial grade videoscope or video borescope with a large LCD and image capture capabilities. The iTool videoscope or video borescope is perfect for a wide range of applications. The Extreme Series Videoscope or video borescope is also and attractive choice because of the high resolution and low price. The iCapture videoscope or video borescope is another portable and affordable choice. The icapture uses the same high resolution videoscope as the iTool system but with a more portable monitor. The iCapture is a versitile videoscope or video borescope choice. Finally, The new iRiss videoscope or video borescope is the moost portable choice available. This new and portable videoscope or video borescope is very portable and affordable while offering the highest resolution images possible.

Advanced Inspection Technologies is happy to offer the Testo 881 Infrared Camera provides a superior image for the most demanding inspector. The new infrared cameras provide the best thermal image for documentation of industrial thermography and is a simple to use handheld infrared camera.

The Testo 881 Handheld Infrared Camera are intended for industrial thermal inspection of elctrical systems, Preventive or Predictive Maintenance, for Fast and Easy Monitoring of Tank levels, steam traps, for Reliability in Quality Assurance and Production Monitoring and For Inspection of buildings. The Testo 881 infrared cameras are simple to operate, extremely portable, produce the highest resolution image in their class possible and are affordable.

The addition of the Testo 881 Infrared Camera is a welcome addition to AIT’s existing remote visual inspection equipment and infrared camera systems to provide its customers with optimal solutions for all industrial applications. The Testo 881 infrared cameras include an Intuitive Infrared Camera Menu. The one-hand operation with motor focus and 5-way joystick offers a fast and exact limitation of possible damage and thereby supports targeted maintenance. With the simple addition of folder structures, the administrative efforts for planning and managing the images as well as locations and tours are reduced to a minimum. The Testo 881 is the perfect hand held infrared camera in a portable package.

The new Testo 881 infrared cameras offer many advanced features for an infrared camera in their class. Integrated voice recording function facilitate the documentation of the measurement results. Comments can be made on every recording on site. This valuable additional information is stored together with the infrared camera image.

In addition to the infrared camera recording, the testo 881 infrared camera creates a parallel real image of the location with the integrated digital camera. The integrated power LEDs guarantee you optimum illumination of dark areas when recording real images. The Testo 881 offers a motor focus that enables you to focus the image using a focus rocker switch. This enables operation of the infrared camera with just one hand. This makes the test the best handheld infrared camera design.

With a thermal resolution of < 80 mK, the testo 881 infrared camera delivers high-resolution images in which even the smallest temperature differences are emphasized and visualized. With the Isotherm function With the optical color alarm, areas of critical temperature on the measurement object are immediately emphasized in color. The minimum and maximum values of an image section can be provided at a glance live directly on site.

A wide-angle and a telephoto lens allow adaptation to the different sizes of and distances from measurement objects. The 32° standard infrared camera lens shows a large image section and thereby ensures a quick overview. The 9° infrared camera telephoto lens offers the option of reliably detecting more details, even at greater distances. The Testo infrared camera offers exchangeable lenses for individual thermography. The Testo 881 also offers a high-temperature option, the measuring range of the testo 881 infrared camera can be flexibly extended. If required, simply fit a high-temperature filter onto the infrared camera lens. Temperatures up to 550 °C can thereby be measured.

The clearly structured and user-friendly PC software that is included with the Testo 881 camera allows the comprehensive analysis and evaluation of thermograms. You can now process and analyze several infrared images at the same time and document them in a report together with their respective real images. In order to achieve precise analysis results, it is possible to correct the different emissivities of the various materials by area in the thermal image, right up to individual pixels. The professional software is included in delivery with all Testo Infrared Cameras.

Advanced Inspection Technologies (AIT) is proud to add the Testo 881 Infrared Camera to their existing product offering. The new infrared camera or thermalimaging camera offers a unique capability to conduct infrared surveys of electical, machinery, industrial, and building applications in an affordable portable package.

Advanced Inspection Technologies Inc. is pleased to introduce the iRis™ Portable video borescope. The new portable video borescope is the highest performance remote visual inspection system in its class. The new iRis™ video borescope is a revolutionary remote visual inspection tool that is light weight, easy to use and high performance. The new video borescope produces brilliant high resolution images with a powerful Sony Color SUPER HAD™ CCD camera. Powerful LED’s provide brilliant white light with a color temperature of 6500° K and outperforms all other industrial video borescopes in this category. A high resolution LCD display, 4 -way articulation, text annotation and digital image capture are also included features.

Planned and un-planned outages cost time and money. A dropped hard hat, tool, cell phone or other foreign material may find its way into the most hard to reach area in your plant, despite the most rigorous Foreign Material Exclusion (FME) efforts, and keep you from returning to full operating capacity. Foreign object search and retrieval tools can locate can retrieve loose parts, dropped items and other objects from industrial systems and return your plant to full operational status. Advanced Inspection Technologies (AIT) has a wide variety of Foreign Object Search and Retrieval tools to quickly locate and remove any object. Be prepared and speak with one of our sales engineers to assist you to locate and remove foreign material from distances of 200 ft or more.

The new 4.0 mm videoscope provides affordable high-quality imaging with easy tip manipulation, digital recording and annotation. The 4.0mm videoscope is standard with a rugged tungsten insertion tube for maximum durability. 2-way articulation, forward and side-view optical tips allow for inspection in all directions. The small videoscope tip provides unprecedented maneuverability in tight spaces - 160º articulation for full-directional viewing. Read more about the new videoscope here.

The new iTool videoscopes are extremely portable and weigh only 5.5 pounds! This makes transporting around industrial plants from inspection to inspection easy. The iTool videoscope features a brilliant 7" LCD with digital image capture, text annotation, audio recording, full screen image review and comparison measurement. Recorded inspection can be easily transferred to a PC with a USB cable or compact flash card. Read more about the new videoscope here.

Advanced Inspection Technologies (AIT), a leader in the sales and rental of Remote Visual Inspection (RVI) equipment, announces the market introduction of a new website dedicated to the rental of Remote Visual Inspection Equipment such as video borescopes and long pipe inspection cameras. The new web site: www.aitrents.com was created in response to overwhelming demand for short term borescope rentals. The changing economic climate has forced many companies to reconsider purchasing expensive remote visual inspection equipment such as borescopes, videoscopes, fiberscopes and pipe inspection cameras. Too often an expensive borescope is purchased and only used a couple times a year. Borescope rental has become an attractive option to purchasing. Since renting a borescope only costs a few hundred dollars per day, the cost saving advantages of borescope rental are becoming obvious to the vast majority of remote visual inspection users as money has become tighter. You can read more abouthe the new borescope rental. website here.

Videoscopes from Advanced Inspection Technologies (AIT) provide the best possible image for your inspection. AIT’s flexible videoscope and video borescope instruments are constructed with an advanced Image Sensor: 1/6 inch Color SUPER HAD™ CCD camera with a 380,000 pixel count. This is the most advanced videoscope camera available to all manufacturers. This advanced videoscope image produces crisp and clear images with the best possible color reproduction in all industrial applications. This advanced videoscope camera is coupled with the most advanced 24 Watt HID light source to illuminate the darkest and most difficult inspections.

To determine the most appropriate length borescope you need for your inspection is a fairly simple process. 1. Determine what distance the working length of the borescope will need to travel to reach the target inspection area. 2. Consider the access area and keep in mind any external components that will keep the borescope at a distance from the inspection access. 3. Can the area that needs to be inspected be access from several locations? The best choice is to select the shortest borescope possible. This allows for greatest light transmission to the target and therefore the best possible borescope image. Just as important a shorter bore scope is the easiest is the easiest to use and will have the best tip articulation. Remember that any unused length of boroscope not only costs more but will be coiled at your feet or protruding from the inspection area and far more susceptible to damage.

Advanced Inspection Technologies (AIT) customers demand durable and rugged fiberscopes for the most demanding industrial inspections. All fiberscopes that AIT sells are constructed with high resolution fiber optics and a durable tungsten external braiding. A fiberscope that is designed for industrial applications must deliver the highest resolution and detailed images. Demanding industrial fiber scope applications expose fiberscopes to metal on metal friction, harsh chemicals and difficult inspection pathways. Tungsten is simply more durable than stainless steel or polyurethane in these types of environments. An AIT fiberscope with a tungsten sheath withstands 5 times more wear and tear compared to other brands.

A borescope and a boroscope are the same thing. The term "Boroscope" is comonly used as a term to refer to the industry standard term "borescope." A Borescope or Boroscope is an optical device consisting of a rigid or flexible tube with an eyepiece on one end, an objective lens on the other linked together by a relay optical system in between. The optical system is usually surrounded by optical fibers used for illumination of the remote object and a rigid or flexible protective outer sheath. The remote object is illuminated and an internal image formed by the objective lens is relayed to the eyepiece which magnifies the internal image and presents it to the viewer's eye. Borescopes are used for inspection work where the area to be inspected is inaccessible by other means.

Borescopes or Boroscopes are commonly used in the visual inspection of aircraft engines, aeroderivative industrial gas turbines, steam turbines, diesel engines and automotive/truck engines. Gas and steam turbines require particular attention because of safety and maintenance requirements. Borescope inspection of engines can be used to prevent unnecessary maintenance, which can become extremely costly for large turbines. They are also used in manufacturing of machined or cast parts to inspect critical interior surfaces for burrs, surface finish or complete through holes. Forensic applications in law enforcement and building inspection are also common uses for borescopes.

A rigid borescope or boroscope generally provides a superior image at lower cost compared to a flexible borescope, but have the limitation that access to what is to be viewed is a straight line. A flexible borescope can be used to access cavities which are around a bend, such as a combustion chamber or "Burner Cans" in order to view the condition of the compressed air inlets, turbine blades and seals without disassembling the engine. Source: wikipedia

VisIR 640 thermal imaging camera has everything you need for industrial Predictive Maintenance and more; crystal clear thermal images from a highly sensitive 640 x 480 un-cooled infrared sensor, precise temperature measurement and the most powerful range of easy to use infrared camera tools and unique Condition RED® database and software options. With its unique rugged industrial housing, an articulated central optics pod for ergonomic safe operation and high contrast Day Bright™ touch screen, VisIR 640 provides high definition thermal and visual image clarity in any lighting conditions. VisIR 640’s high resolution detector and 1.3MP color camera makes surveys more efficient and cost-effective. With integral LED illuminator/flash, laser pointer and voice recording, VisIR 640 packs a knockout punch in the industrial Predictive Maintenance arena.

Predictive Maintenance, or Condition Monitoring, keeps a check on the health of assets through regular inspection. Effective Predictive Maintenance enables repair to be performed when it is most cost-effective, before assets lose optimum performance and when downtime is minimized. VisIR 640’s superior thermal resolution gives sharp, high definition images, making fault diagnosis fast and reliable. With 4 times the resolution of 320 x 240 infrared cameras and 16 times the resolution of 160 x 120 cameras, VisIR 640 thermal imaging camera allows you to cover the same tasks in a fraction of the time.

VisIR 640 thermal imaging camera and Condition RED® infrared software fully integrates your infrared camera and asset database to create an automated data store, image analysis, route planning and report generation system. Condition RED® supports file formats from all major thermal imager camera manufacturers - including all FLIR Systems, Inframetrics, Agema, Avio and of course, Thermoteknix.

I have searched for a definition of exactly what remote visual inspection is and have been unable to find any concrete definition. Instead I find that all the manufacturers of remote visual inspection equipment use the term causally to describe their products and services but never offer an explanation. The American Society of Non Destructive Testing (ASNT) does not include the term in the Non Destructive Handbook nor do any manufacturers offer a definition. As an industry insider I have always known that "remote visual inspection involves the use of a borescope, fiberscope, videoscope or other remotely operated camera to remotely view or inspect something that could not be viewed directly." I offer this as the industry definition of Remote Visual Inspection (RVI). Advanced Inspection Technologies specializes in supplying our customers with a wide variety of Remote Visual Inspection equipment.