Entries by John Melegrito

The LDAR Technician’s PDA: a Safety Device or a Hazard?

Since the dawn of the Wireless Age in LDAR, more and more LDAR Technicians have been (wirelessly!) connecting their TVA 1000B and phx21 to a handheld computer. The most frequently used handheld devices include: Archer Field PC Archer 2 Juniper Systems Mesa Janam Symbol Motorola MC70 Symbol Motorola 9090, 9060, 9091 Various Intermec products Typically, […]

TEAM Industrial Services Begins Deployment of LDARtools

After months of development and testing, TEAM Industrial Services has successfully completed the deployment of the full suite of LDARtools software products at the Targa facility in Mont Belvieu, Texas. The suite of products included: LTI Mobile™ LTI MobilePro™ LTI Scout™ LTI Safety™ LTI LStar™ LTI MOC™ LTI Desktop Manager™ The configuration features an important […]

All About Extension Probes

Extension probes allow you to get to those components that would normally be difficult to monitor. They can make your life easier, but some questions still linger about this useful tool and the answers are often out of reach. Thankfully, the experts here at LDARtools are just at the workshop or at their desks designing […]

LTI Design Team Thermos Presented to Robert Williams

Robert Williams, ECS Sr. Specialist for TEAM Industrial Services, Inc. received the first LTI Design Team Thermos at a Training Lunch for a group of LDAR technicians celebrating TEAM’s initial deployment of the full suite of LDARtools software at a Houston-area site. The Thermos was laser imprinted with the Design Team’s logo and Robert’s name—so […]

The March of Progress in LDARtools

The PDA you use in the field is more than just a simple tool. It’s an essential part of your arsenal when tackling the hundreds of components that need to be properly tagged and monitored. LDARtools brought the Archer Field PC to the LDAR industry and now we’re set to improve on that and bring […]

A New Technical Paper from the LDAR Think Tank

The Flame Ionization Detector (FID) has come a long way in terms of portability, but with this improvement comes an issue that has no clear answer: the sample hose. LDARtools President and CEO, Rex Moses, has written a Technical Paper on the options currently available in the market and his analysis of the situation that […]

LDARtools Shirt Challenge

Hello All, Hope everyone is well. We would like to invite you all to participate in our shirt challenge. Winner will win a $25 AMAZON gift card. Good luck to all! See rules below. 1.It’s simple… take a picture wearing one of our LDARtools shirts…anywhere! Be creative. Going on vacation to Grand Canyon? Take a […]

What’s up with these last 17 tags?

Managing Components that were NOT Monitored Part III Technicians are supposed to monitor components. Sometimes it doesn’t work out the way we had planned. You load 350 components in her handheld from your LDAR database. She works all day and turns in the handheld with 17 components unmonitored. What are you to do? You could […]

LDARtools Hopes to See You at ISA

Good Morning, Hope all is well on your end. We have been keeping very busy at LDARtools. We are getting geared up for the 14th Annual ISA LDAR Fugitive Emissions Symposium. This year the conference is May 19th– May 22nd in New Orleans, LA. If you have never been I encourage you to attend. It’s […]