Case Studies
Real-world deployments of IRmodules thermal cores and imaging modules — condition monitoring, automated inspection, and research applications.
Polarization Thermal Imaging for Low-Contrast Target Recognition
How a research team used polarization-sensitive thermal imaging to detect targets that are thermally invisible — camouflaged vehicles at thermal equilibrium, disturbed soil, and oil films on water — in scenes where a standard thermal camera shows nothing.
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SWIR Sorting and Inspection of Semiconductor Materials
How a semiconductor packaging house uses SWIR imaging to see through silicon — catching subsurface wafer cracks and bond defects that visible-light inspection cannot see, and sorting reclaimed wafers by what is actually inside them.
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Thermal Failure Analysis of PCBA: From Lab Bench to Inline Screening
How an electronics manufacturer's failure-analysis lab cut diagnosis time from days to hours with near-focus thermal imaging — and then pushed the same technique onto the line as a power-on screening step.
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Ladle Refractory Hot-Spot Monitoring in a Steel Plant
How a steel plant replaced chalk-and-eyeball ladle inspections with continuous thermal shell monitoring — catching refractory wear at the warm-shell stage and retiring ladles by data instead of by calendar.
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OGI Gas Leak Detection at a Petrochemical Park: LDAR with Cooled MWIR
How a petrochemical complex replaced sniffing thousands of fittings one by one with cooled-MWIR optical gas imaging — scanning whole pipe racks in minutes and finding leaks its LDAR program had missed for years.
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Wayside Thermal Detection of Overheating Axle Bearings on Freight Trains
How a freight railway rebuilt its aging hot-box detection points with modern radiometric thermal cores — cutting missed overheating bearings and false stops across a heavy-haul corridor.
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