Infrared Training
Frequently Asked Questions
Are you new to thermography or interested in understanding more about our training courses? Below are our FAQ’s, and if you would like to learn more, we encourage you to read about our Category 1 and Category 2 courses, or visit our Additional Resources for more.
Gaining proper Infrared Thermography Training is critical as low-level faults can easily be missed by the untrained technician and these can easily turn into catastrophic failures in between surveys. Properly trained, qualified, and certified IR technicians provide companies with a greater return on their investment.
Properly trained, qualified, and certified IR technicians can detect an electrical fault, sometimes years before the component fails completely, providing the asset owner with adequate time to have the fault repaired. This prevents the risk failure causing costly downtime and sometimes fire; in fact, the risk is more common than people often realise.
There are various topics explained and workshops covered over a five-day, Virtual or Face-to-Face Course.
Some of the things you will learn in our courses are:
- How to operate your equipment.
- Heat transfer concepts.
- How to eliminate or overcome common error sources.
- How to identify all types of faults and analyse your findings.
Your certificate will allow you to:
- Carry out basic infrared surveys for predictive maintenance and electrical insurance purposes;
- Setup and operate thermal imaging equipment for safe thermographic data collection;
- Perform basic fault detection and severity assessment;
- Evaluate and report test results and highlight areas of concern;
- Apply specific measurement techniques & perform basic image post-processing;
- Maintain a database of results and trends;
- Verify the calibration of thermographic measurement systems; and
- Build your knowledge and experience base while accumulating the necessary 400 hours of practical experience over a minimum of 12 months to apply for certification.
AS adopted the ISO Standards for Thermography some years ago. The two major Thermography standards are: AS/ISO 18436-7 (Training) and AS/ISO 18434 (Delivery).
