IRISS Inc.

Most transformers in northern India's cities sit right where people live, work, and walk past every day. Inspecting them safely has meant choosing between two bad options: open the live panel and accept the arc flash risk, or shut down the transformer and cut power to the neighborhood it serves.

A distribution company in the region chose neither. Working with IRISS, they installed a 4 inch CAP-ENV Series infrared window directly on the transformer panel door, giving inspectors a clear view of all three busbar phases without opening a single panel or interrupting service.

The window is lockable to prevent tampering in public spaces and IP67 rated for monsoon humidity and dust. No panel openings. No outages. No theft risk on equipment that sits out in the open all day.

This is what condition based monitoring looks like when it has to work on a crowded street, not just inside a plant.

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Most people know IRISS for the inspection windows. Fewer know we send our own technicians out to run the diagnostics.

Furnace thermography. Gold Cup pyrometry. Motion amplification. Optical gas imaging. Blower door testing. Each one delivered by the engineers who built the equipment, not a subcontractor working from a manual.

Predictive maintenance only works if the person reading the data knows what they're looking at.

The risk isn't the fault you find. It's the one you stopped looking for.

Most electrical failures don't announce themselves. They develop slowly, in equipment that passed its last inspection, in a facility where nothing has gone wrong in years. That track record doesn't mean the assets are healthy. It means nothing has failed yet.

The teams that find things before they fail aren't better at inspections. They're better at staying curious when everything looks fine.

A budget IR window looks like the smart call on a procurement spreadsheet. Then the optics start clouding before year five, replacement comes sooner than planned, and the inspection team quietly stops using it because it has become more trouble than it is worth.

None of that ever shows up on the purchase order.

We broke down the real math behind IR window cost, the kind reliability and finance teams should be running before anyone signs off on "cheaper."

That version withholds the framework entirely and leaves the click as the only way to get the answer, which is what you want for a TOFU asset like this.

India and APAC represent one of the most significant growth opportunities in industrial electrical safety. Getting that right takes more than a hire — it takes someone who has spent three decades learning these markets from the inside.

Sreekanth Upadhyaya brings exactly that to his new role as Country Manager for India and APAC at IRISS. With leadership experience at Honeywell, Eaton, Ingersoll Rand, SKF, and Yokogawa, and a career built across India, the Middle East, and Africa, he knows what it takes to lead in complex, fast-moving industrial environments.

We could not be more pleased to have him join us. Welcome, Sreekanth.

The next IRISS x Eaton certification cohort starts August 17.

Four days of practical, standards-aligned training in infrared thermography. Backed by two names that have spent decades in electrical safety and reliability. You will leave with a Level I certification and skills you can put to work immediately.

Three cohorts are available through 2026:

Infrared Thermography Level I
August 17 to 20
November 9 to 12

Ultrasound Level I
November 2 to 5

Built for maintenance teams, reliability engineers, electricians, and safety professionals. If your team needs certified inspection capability this year, the dates are there. The May cohort is the most immediate.

A site walk should do more than document what is already visible.

Done properly, it helps teams connect field observations to real reliability action, from identifying inspection gaps to improving asset access, strengthening safety practices, and building better condition-based maintenance programs.

Our latest whitepaper, Site Walks and Site Inspections: Turning Field Observations Into Reliability Action, explains how structured site walks help maintenance, reliability, and safety teams move from observation to action.

Download the whitepaper to learn how better site inspections can support safer work, stronger asset reliability, and smarter maintenance planning.

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Site Walks and Site Inspections: Turning Field Observations Into Reliability Action - IRISS Site walks turn real-world field observations into practical reliability action by helping industrial teams uncover hidden risks, improve inspection strategies, and prioritize smarter maintenance.

One thing that surprises most reliability teams when they first add ultrasound to an IR program:

Infrared is excellent at finding faults that are already generating heat. That's real value. But arcing, tracking, and corona begin as ultrasonic events. They produce a detectable signal before they produce any thermal signature at all.

By the time infrared catches them, they have a head start.

Ultrasound inspection shifts the detection window earlier in the fault lifecycle. Earlier detection means a scheduled intervention instead of an emergency one. In some cases it means something more important than that.

Neither technology is a replacement for the other. Together they cover what neither can do alone. That's the combination worth building a program around.

Maintenance teams aren't short of data. They're short of the right data, in the right place, at the right time.

Work orders without history. Sensor readings without context. Inspection notes buried in a folder no one can find. The result is slower decisions, wasted time, and technicians making calls with half the picture.

On June 24, E Sentry's Eric Thompson is hosting a free webinar on how connected condition monitoring and asset-level intelligence can change that. Less friction. Faster decisions. More confident maintenance.

Free to attend. Register here - https://buff.ly/Y3h5n1V