Three-Year Warranty Says Thermal Imager Will Be Trouble-Free

Land Instruments International (UK) is so confident of the reliability of its new FTI-E fixed thermal imaging system that it is supplying it with a market-beating three-year warranty.

The FTI-E range, the latest version of technology that the company has been developing continuously for more than a decade in the light of inplant experience, incorporates four models for monitoring temperatures from -20 to 1600°C.

It is designed for the harsh environments that Land has encountered on manufacturing lines around the world yet is simple to install and easy to operate, creating further savings for the user on top of the many potentially costly product quality deviations and line breakdowns that it will identify before they occur. As well as the thermal imaging camera itself, each FTI-E system has an industrial processor that provides local process control, configuration and process visualisation, and Land’s own LIPS FTI software for flexible, application-specific thermal analysis.

Suitable for installation on plant or in the control room, the processor connects directly to the imager and to a standard industrial interface of the customer’s choice, such as a simple cross-platform TCP/IP protocol, OPC, analogue signals or alarm outputs. For maximum flexibility, the system can be controlled and images displayed locally through an optional touchscreen.

The LIPS FTI software is an on-line, real-time thermal analysis system using the latest advances in image processing and digital communications with a full range of analysis and process control functions. It can monitor or control up to four imagers at full frame rate, and in the event of an alarm it automatically stores images and video.

The FTI-E can be protected in the harshest of conditions by the optional industrial housing, which will withstand a wide range of ambient temperatures, is easy to install and maintain, and comes complete with a manual pan-and-tilt mechanism for aligning the camera and an air purge to keep the lens clean during operation.