http://atlas-inspection.com/blog Where Your Pipe Dreams Come True Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:39:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The tough decision comes up often in the Remote Visual Industry when a company makes final arrangements about surveying their application to inspect.  Should we rent inspection camera equipment? Or should we have Atlas Inspection Technologies perform an on-site inspection?  Each situation is different and that’s why we are here to ... http://atlas-inspection.com/blog/techsupt/on-site-inspection-vs-renting/ We have all done this before -  you are working on your car and you drop a bolt!  You listen carefully as it bounces around and finally comes to rest, somewhere?  You start running the sounds through you head, metal, something soft, did it hit the ground? In the power industry ... http://atlas-inspection.com/blog/techsupt/need-to-retrieve-a-loose-part/ [caption id="attachment_435" align="alignleft" width="160" caption="50 Degree FOV Infrared Lens at 18 Inches"][/caption]  I recently worked with a large freight forwarding company that transports containers from port to port.  We had previously worked with this company to install IR Windows throughout the entire vessel.  They currently have some of their thermography done ... http://atlas-inspection.com/blog/infrared-cameras/90-degree-fov-infrared-camera-lens-makes-inspections-faster-and-less-expensive/ Eric Sullivan of Atlas Inspection Technologies and Katie VandenBerg of Interactive Pipe Inspection will be jointly presenting a webinar on Tuesday March 2, 2010 from 10:00am unil 11:00am Pacific on Manhole Inspection Innovations (That Save Money).  I've seen the beta presentation of the webinar and if you are involved with manhole inspections in anyway ... http://atlas-inspection.com/blog/pipe-inspection/webinar-on-03-02-10-manhole-inspection-innovations-that-save-money/ Thinking you might need a fiberscope rental but not sure what a fiberscope is or how to use it? Do you have questions about the difference between a rigid borescope and a fiberscope and videoscope?  Watch our short video introduction What is a fiberscope on the Atlas Inspection Technologies website and find out ... http://atlas-inspection.com/blog/rental/what-is-a-fiberscope-a-video-introduction/ We’ve lowered rental pricing on our infrared camera rentals. IR camera rentals now start at $175/day.  We’ve also added FLIR i-Series and T-series cameras to our rental inventory, both of which now save images in .jpg format; no more software required for simply transferring and viewing images on your computer!  The ... http://atlas-inspection.com/blog/rental/399/ Have you ever wondered exactly what is a videoscope or what the main parts are and what they do?  Not sure about a videoscope's basic care and use? Atlas Inspection Technologies has developed a short video that answers the basic questions about videoscopes for those who find themselves needing a quick tutorial before ... http://atlas-inspection.com/blog/atlas-general/what-is-a-videoscope-video-introduction/ Recently we were called in by a fire sprinkler inspection company to do a remote visual inspection of an apartment complex’s standpipes -  the fire department’s outside hook up.  The complex included 15 buildings each with its own standpipe and check valve and each needed to be inspected visually in ... http://atlas-inspection.com/blog/techsupt/sprinkler-system-standpipe-inspections-faster-and-less-expensive/ Subscribers to the monthly industry magazine Municipal Sewer & Water will notice in the January 2010 issue an article [caption id="attachment_388" align="alignright" width="254" caption="Eric Sullivan Operating Panoramo SI"][/caption] titled “Down the Tube,” which discusses the benefits of the Panoramo SI 3D optical manhole scanner.  This should be required reading for all collections ... http://atlas-inspection.com/blog/techsupt/municipal-sewer-and-water-magazine-eric-sullivan-pictured/ Hi, I'm Brian Wilson. I am the new Business Development Manager for Industrial Accounts at Atlas Inspection Technologies. Atlas is a great company with a fantastic business model.  You can buy, rent, get your repairs done on your remote visual inspection equipment, or hire Atlas to do your inspections.  Our extensive line ... http://atlas-inspection.com/blog/atlas-general/brian-wilson-joins-atlas-inspection-technologies/