User Manual

About Flir Systems
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Flir Systems was established in 1978 to pioneer the development of high-performance in-
frared imaging systems, and is the world leader in the design, manufacture, and market-
ing of thermal imaging systems for a wide variety of commercial, industrial, and
government applications. Today, Flir Systems embraces five major companies with out-
standing achievements in infrared technology since 1958—the Swedish AGEMA Infrared
Systems (formerly AGA Infrared Systems), the three United States companies Indigo Sys-
tems, FSI, and Inframetrics, and the French company Cedip. In November 2007, Extech
Instruments was acquired by Flir Systems.
Figure 28.1 Patent documents from the early 1960s
The company has sold more than 221,000 infrared cameras worldwide for applications
such as predictive maintenance, R & D, non-destructive testing, process control and auto-
mation, and machine vision, among many others.
Flir Systems has three manufacturing plants in the United States (Portland, OR, Boston,
MA, Santa Barbara, CA) and one in Sweden (Stockholm). Since 2007 there is also a man-
ufacturing plant in Tallinn, Estonia. Direct sales offices in Belgium, Brazil, China, France,
Germany, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Korea, Sweden, and the USA—together
with a worldwide network of agents and distributors—support our international customer
base.
Flir Systems is at the forefront of innovation in the infrared camera industry. We anticipate
market demand by constantly improving our existing cameras and developing new ones.
The company has set milestones in product design and development such as the intro-
duction of the first battery-operated portable camera for industrial inspections, and the
first uncooled infrared camera, to mention just two innovations.
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