Thermography enables the analysis of flows by visualizing characteristic thermal signatures, which are caused by different heat transfer coefficients. Thus, direction and strength but especially the type of flow – turbulent or laminar – can be determined.

Thermography as a non-contact, area-based and imaging temperature measurement method is perfectly suited to detect even the smallest flow-induced temperature gradients of less than 15 mK, without influencing the flow behavior itself.

InfraTec’s online event “Flow Analysis Using Thermal Imaging” will inform you about possible applications of thermography in the context of flow analysis. This event will include a technical lecture: “A Non-Intrusive Particle Temperature Extraction Methodology Using Infrared and Visible-Image Sequences for High-Temperature Particle Plumes”

A Glimpse at the Online Event:

• General information about infrared thermography
• Presentation of different infrared camera techniques
• Presentation of different flow types and how to measure them with thermography
• Demonstration of different application possibilities:
  • Aerodynamic optimization (e.g. aircraft wings or rotor blades of wind turbines)
  • Heat management industry (e.g. geometric influences in convection-based cooling systems)
  • Environmental research (e.g. weather, wind situations, climate)
  • Geological research (e.g. snow and rock avalanches, lava flow)

This online event takes place on Wednesday, June 14th 2023 from 10:00am - 12:00 PM CEST.

Recycling and reusing materials are increasingly important for both environmental and economic reasons. Due to raw material shortages and price increases, recycling has also become more profitable.

Hyperspectral imaging offers an accurate, fast and reliable machine vision solution for waste sorting. It improves sorting efficiency, enables workflow automation, and increases the purity of the end product, decreasing the cost and maximizing the profit.

In this webinar, Specim will discuss the capabilities of the Specim FX cameras in sorting different types of waste and demonstrate how the HSI technology can be successfully adapted to industrial sorting.

Who should attend?

Machine builders, system integrators, machine vision professionals, plant managers, and technical experts operating in the waste recycling industry.

You will learn:

• The main advantages of HSI in waste sorting
• How to explore HSI data and create classification models with SpecimINSIGHT
• How the SpecimONE spectral imaging platform for sorting works

The webinar takes place on Thursday December 1st, 2022 with two session time options available!

Register

Conventional and additive manufacturing processes - both in the prototype stage and in industrial production - require increasing quality control of the final products. In addition to the common destructive tests, non-destructive methods are increasingly being used in order to expose series parts to real loads without gaps, and to detect weak points.

Materials show a thermal reaction when deformed, allowing InfraTec cameras to capture the resulting thermal signatures on the object via contactless inspection in just one inspection process. Even intricately shaped test objects can be analyzed efficiently and non-invasively. With the lock-in method, even the smallest thermal reactions of <1 mK can be registered.

During this online event, you will learn more about the various InfraTec solutions and get an insight into the used technology and measuring principles, supported by a featured technical lecture titled ‘Contribution of Thermoelastic Stress Analysis in Mechanics of Materials and Structures: Some Illustrations’.

There are two sessions for this online event:

Wednesday, October 26th 2022: 8:00 AM - 9:30AM CDT Register

Wednesday, October 26th 2022: 3:00PM - 4:30PM CDT Register

The inspection of electronic components and assemblies by using active thermography is an established method for troubleshooting and quality assurance – from prototype development to series production.

In particular the lock-in thermography provides highly detailed information during each development step. This information can be essential for the design of complex electronic circuits or assemblies to optimize the thermal management.

Active thermography is applied especially in electronics production as a versatile tool: for example, in quality assurance, for permanent monitoring of technological parameters as well as for inline inspection of products in manufacturing.

Register for InfraTec’s free online event to learn more about the use of lock-in thermography for failure analysis in electrical engineering and electronics.

A Glimpse at the Online Event:

• Failure analysis and defect inspection
• Quality and process control
• Flexible R&D solution
• Basic configuration to turnkey solution
• Hotspot detection on printed circuit boards, integrated circuits, semiconductor material and multi-chip modules
• Detection of faulty thermal connections of heat sinks, short circuits, soldering defects and wire bonding errors

This event also includes a technical lecture “Challenges and Applications of Thermography in Microelectronics” by Marko Hoffmann from Infineon Technologies Dresden GmbH & Co. KG.

There are two sessions for this online event:

Thursday June 9th, 2022: 3:00AM - 5:00AM CDT Register

Thursday June 9th, 2022: 12:00PM - 2:00PM CDT Register

Channel Systems will be exhibiting at Photonics North Conference 2022 in Niagara Falls May 24th to 26th! The Exhibition takes place at the Niagara Falls Convention Centre, come visit our booth and check out our demo cameras!

The efficiency of wind turbine generators (WTG) influences the energy yield and ultimately the operator’s profits. Negative influencing factors such as dirt or rotor blade erosion, as well as damage to aerodynamic aids such as boundary layer fences, vortex generators and zig-zag band turbulators can significantly reduce the yield.

Thermography offers excellent opportunities to detect these kinds of defects on the rotor blades of running wind turbines from several hundred meters away.

During this InfraTec webinar, expert speakers will explain how thermography can help you get the most out of your wind turbines including a technical lecture titled ‘Inspection of Wind Turbine Blades with Ground-based Passive Thermography’ by Michael Stamm of the BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing.

A Glimpse at the Event:

• General information about infrared thermography
• Presentation of different infrared camera techniques
• Applications of thermal imaging for the optimization and further development of wind turbines
• Non-destructive material testing, active thermography

There are two session options for this online event:

Wednesday March 23, 2022: 10:00AM - 12:00PM CET Register

Wednesday March 23, 2022: 7:00PM - 9:00PM CET Register

By utilizing a helicopter equipped with a thermal camera, gimbal-supported aerial thermography gets a third dimension through infrared! From an elevated position, an infrared camera can visualize a large thermographic overview for a variety of applications. Depending on the actual mission plan, fixed wing aircraft can provide further options for those applications as well.

This online event will cover:

• Aerial thermography: Definition, benefits, types, presence and future
• Applications for thermography in airborne remote sensing
• Challenges of aerial thermography
• Technical requirements for an IR camera system
• Comparing cooled and uncooled camera systems
• Important and relevant selection criteria
• Accessories (hardware and software) needed to solve the measurement task

There are three session options for this online event:

Wednesday, February 23rd 2022: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM CET Register

Wednesday, February 23rd 2022: 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM CET Register

Thursday, February 24th 2022: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM CET Register

Would you like to know more about the advantages of thermography for thermo-elastic stress analysis? Join the free InfraTec online event:

Contactless and Non-Destructive Stress Analysis with Thermography
Tuesday, November 16th
3:00 - 4:30 pm CET

A Glimpse into the Online Event:

• Theoretical background - mechanical force, stress and temperature
• Methods for analysis
• Examples from practice with applications samples - elastic periodical load test and fatigue test. 
• Short overview about Infra-Tec products
• Special topic by InfraTec’s guest speaker, Vincent Le Saux. Lecture: “Some illustrations of the contribution of quantitative infrared thermography in mechanical engineering: application to cyclic loading”

Speakers

Sven-A. Wode, PhD
Manager Business Development International
InfraTec GmbH Infrarotsensorik und Messtechnik

Prof. Vincent Le Saux
Professor in Mechanics
ENSTA Bretagne / Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Advancees Bretagne

Let yourself be inspired and deepen you expertise in a lively way and register today!

Find out how infrared camera technology is developing, which evaluation methods the latest software offers and which new applications open up for you. You’ll be introduced to the world of infrared technology with InfraTec’s free-of-charge online event:

Thermography Compact - Enter the World of Infrared Technology
Tuesday, September 7, 2021
7:00Am - 10:30AM CDT
 

Contents of the Event:

- General information about infrared thermography
- Presentation of different thermography camera techniques
- Presentation of different applications from research and development
- Lectures from the thermography practice
- Non-destructive material testing, active thermography
- Innovative automation solutions from InfraTec
- Thermography technology presentation and practical demonstrations
- Discussion round with questions and answers

Thermal optimization of the assembly process and components is a central issue in the development of new products. The temperature distribution of energized PCBs and individual components can be analyzed very well by using powerful thermal imaging systems, while hotspots can be tracked in the image area at the same time. Learn more about micro-thermography as a contactless temperature measurement in the micrometer scale.

A Glimpse into the Event

• What are the physical characteristics of Micro-Thermography?
• What are the technical requirements for an IR camera system?
• Which accessories (hardware and software) are needed to solve the measurement task?
• Which selection criteria are important and relevant?
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of cooled and uncooled camera systems?
• In which application areas is Micro-Thermography used?

Image Sensors Europe Online Event
March 23-24th, 2021

Image Sensors Europe will return in 2021 in a new online format and will bring together the entire image sensors supply chain including representatives from end-users in all the main applications, camera system suppliers, sensor design houses and technology developers, optics suppliers. Delegates in previous years have had the opportunity to:

• Network with attendees from across the supply chain with past attendees including Gpixel, Bosch, Huawei, AMS, Omnivision, Continental, tobii, Amazon Lab126 to name a few
• Hear from companies who are leading in the image sensors market, with previous speakers including Sony, Samsung, Panasonic, ON Semiconductor, STMicroelectronics, EPFL, Analog Value, University of Edinburgh, IMEC and Basler 
• Discover supply chain insights on the biggest industry challenges from market trends, future technologies and image processing to the latest in key applications including biological, industrial, consumer, automotive and security

April 7-8, 2021

Where Plastics Recycling Moves Forward

The Plastics Recycling Conference is an online event where plastics reclaimers, equipment manufacturers, brand owners, brokers, government officials and leading sustainability voices from around the globe connect, network and share information. Take advantage of the opportunity to meet new contacts, close deals and hear the information you need to know to keep your business ahead of the rest and push the sector forward.

chii2020 is the international branch meeting of hyperspectral imaging in industry. The aim of the conference is to show the vast potential lying within the use of HSI.

chii2020 is designed as interdisciplinary crosslink between the various hyperspectral interest groups such as application, technology and service. The conference focuses on industrial  solutions for machine inspection and remote sensing as well as the future of HSI.

Follow the link for more info!

Channel Systems will be exhibiting at 2018 Canadian Association of Physicists Congress hosted by Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada June 11-15th, 2018. Come visit us and check out our demo cameras, including the new Specim IQ!

Channel Systems will be exhibiting at the 18th Annual Photonics North Conference held at Quebec City Convention Centre in Quebec, Canada from May 24-26th, 2016. Come by and see our demo cameras at booth 107!

Channel Systems together with Specim, Spectral Imaging will be exhibiting at the International Conference on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Geomatics 2015 held at York University in Toronto Canada from August 31-September 2, 2015. Come by and see our demo cameras at Booth 3.