A reliability engineering lead running high-speed sortation and induct lines had one blind spot: the weeks between monthly thermal sweeps. On a single-point-of-failure conveyor feeding the main sorter, a belt running hot or tracking off doesn't wait for the next inspection - and by the time it fails outright, it takes the line, and the shift, down with it.
This case study shows how continuous infrared monitoring closed that gap - watching every critical belt around the clock, catching over-tensioned belts and tracking faults while they're still a maintenance ticket, not a shutdown, and turning service calls from investigations into fixes.
