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For facility and plant management.
Electrical failures do not give you a warning. They give you heat. That heat can be measured while the equipment runs, months before the failure is measured in lost production.
02 · What is at stake
Two differences per anomaly, and a record an auditor accepts.
Panelboards, switchgear, motor control centers, busway and transformers are scanned on the ground, under load, with the covers off. An unloaded circuit reads room temperature and tells you nothing. Every anomaly is measured against a like part at the same load and against the ambient air, then graded for severity. That is the form a condition-based maintenance program is documented in. One visit covers the whole facility. The electrical room on foot, the substation and rooftop gear from the air, one severity-ranked report.
03 · The lineup
Five things in an electrical room, and what each one is hiding.
The plate is a schematic elevation, stamped as one. It carries no temperature and no ampacity. The annotations name equipment, not findings in any particular room.
- TERMINATION
- BUSWAY
- SWITCHGEAR
- MOTOR CONTROL
- TRANSFORMER
01 / 05 Switchgear lineup
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Where the failure starts
A loose connection is warm for months before it is an outage.
A connection that has worked loose runs hot for months before it fails. With the cover off and the load on, that heat is plain to a calibrated camera. Run to failure, and the first sign of a bad connection is the outage it causes. The outage is measured in production, not in degrees.
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Why nothing gets shut down
An unloaded circuit reads room temperature, so the scan runs live.
The inspection needs the plant running, not stopped. Heat is a function of current, and a de-energized lineup has nothing to show. Scheduling works around production instead of interrupting it. Covers come off under your site electrical safety program, by your qualified electrician or a qualified contractor we coordinate. We scan, measure, classify and document.
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Annual, or every six months
The interval follows the equipment, not the calendar.
NFPA 70B, 2026 edition, sets thermal inspection intervals through your own maintenance program. Where no manufacturer schedule and no predictive program sets one, its table is the default: 12 months for most electrical equipment, 6 months at the highest equipment condition assignment — the highest of three parallel assessments, physical condition, criticality and operating environment. That assessment is yours to make about your own assets. We perform and document the inspection at whichever interval you set.
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What the report has to contain
A number without a reference area is not a finding.
Every anomaly is measured twice — against a like part at a like load, and against the ambient air — and graded for severity. Both differences on the record is the form NFPA 70B documentation takes. The findings table ships numbered, located and graded, as CSV. That is the shape a planner raises a work order from.
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What it is worth at renewal
Carriers increasingly expect a program to exist, and to see it being run.
Dated scans, both differences documented per anomaly, severity grades, and a record of what was done about the findings. The report is built to produce that trail. What an individual carrier accepts is between you and your underwriter. The record is the part you can control.
04 · From guesswork to measurement
From guesswork to measurement.
Guesswork is how most electrical rooms are checked today. Measurement is what a calibrated scan leaves behind.
Guesswork
Measurement
- A hand on the panel door, a nose for hot insulation, and a scan whenever someone remembers. At audit time, the records you need are the records you cannot find.
- A scan on a set interval, every temperature difference measured against a reference and written down. A report an auditor and an underwriter both accept.
- Run to failure. The first sign of a bad connection is the outage it causes, and the outage is measured in production.
- Loose and overloaded connections found while they are still only warm. Fixed on a work order, not a callout.
- Renewal comes around, and the condition of your equipment is argued from memory.
- A dated, condition-based record, which carriers increasingly expect to see.
05 · What you receive
What lands in your hands.
- 01 Radiometric thermal images Full-radiometry files, so your reviewer can re-measure any point instead of taking our number on trust. R-JPEG
- 02 Findings table Every anomaly numbered and located, with two measured differences, the load at the time, and its severity class. We document each finding both ways, following NFPA 70B, 2026 edition. The first compares it with a similar component under similar loading, usually the same part on the next phase. The second compares it with the ambient air. Class 1 means look into it. Class 2 means schedule the repair. Class 3 means monitor until it can be corrected. Class 4 means repair now. CSV + XLSX + PDF
- 03 Paired visual imagery A photo of the same part beside every thermal anomaly, so the finding names a real component. JPEG
- 04 Equipment inventory and location map What was scanned and where it sits, indoors and out. The next inspection covers the same list, so the two can be compared. PDF
- 05 Method report Emissivity and reflected-temperature settings, load and conditions, and the limits of the result. It records whether each panel was scanned open or through a window. PDF
- 06 Maintenance import file Findings mapped to your maintenance software’s import format, keyed to your own asset IDs. Equipment that doesn’t match your register is listed separately, never imported. CSV
- 07 Summary page What was scanned and what wasn’t, and why. Counts by class, top actions, change since last scan, next date. A record-of-repairs sheet comes with it; fill it in, and the next scan picks up from it. PDF
What makes the record audit-ready
What you get back is audit-ready. It is dated. The emissivity and reflected-temperature settings are logged, and the load is recorded at each reading. Every component with a finding has its photograph.
Questions we are asked
Notes.
Q1 Can you inspect without a shutdown?
The inspection needs the opposite: equipment online and loaded, because an unloaded circuit reads room temperature. Scheduling is arranged around your production. NFPA 70B also requires every accessible and necessary cover off first, so each component has a clear line of sight to the camera; that work happens under your site electrical safety program, by your qualified electrician or a qualified contractor we coordinate. Components inside an infrared window’s field of view are read through it with the cover on. We do not open energized equipment.
Q2 Do we need this annually or every six months?
That is set by your maintenance program, not directly by the standard. Where no manufacturer schedule and no predictive program sets an interval, the table in NFPA 70B, 2026 edition, is the default: 12 months for most electrical equipment, 6 months at the highest equipment condition assignment. Equipment condition there is the highest of three parallel assessments — physical condition, criticality, and operating environment — and the assessment of your own assets is yours to make. We perform and document the inspection at whichever interval you set.
Q3 Will a thermal inspection help at insurance renewal?
Carriers increasingly expect evidence that a condition-based program exists and is being run. That means dated scans, both differences documented per anomaly, severity grades, and a record of what was done about findings. The report is built to produce that. What any individual carrier accepts is between you and your underwriter.
Q4 Can findings go into our CMMS?
The findings table ships as CSV, each anomaly numbered, located and graded. That is the form most maintenance systems take in. We deliver data in a shape your planner can import or key in. We do not integrate directly with a maintenance system.
Q5 Do you do the roof and the yard at the same time?
Yes, and it is usually the efficient way to do it. The electrical room is scanned on foot, under load, during production hours. The substation, the yard and rooftop gear are scanned from the air on the same visit. The roof moisture scan runs at night, on its own conditions. One trip, separate reports, because they answer different questions.
07 · Where this goes next
- Electrical & industrial thermal inspection Electrical and mechanical thermal inspection, panel to substation: the method, the standards and the deliverable set.
- Roofing Condition inspection, and ASTM C1153 moisture survey where the question is what is in the roof.
- NFPA 70B thermography, documented The decision page: what the standard asks a record to contain, and on what interval.
- Irrigation districts and canal companies Locating conveyance loss along a reach, and proving a repair held.
- General contractors, owners and lenders Draw support, and work recorded before it is covered.
- Property and CRE management Roof condition across a portfolio, keyed by building and comparable year over year.
- Food, dairy and agricultural processing Electrical under load, planned around your food-safety program and production.
Next step · One electrical room
Start with one electrical room.
A short call sizes the equipment list, settles covers and load, and fixes what the report has to satisfy.
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