How SnapCor Reduces Reporting Time by 70% for Electrical Thermography

Ask any electrical thermographer where their time goes and you’ll hear the same story:

• The inspection itself is efficient.
• The reporting is not.

You finish a long day in front of MCCs, distribution boards and UPS panels… then spend hours more:

• Downloading thermal images from the camera
• Matching them to assets in Excel
• Manually applying load correction and severity
• Typing fault descriptions and remedial actions
• Formatting everything into a PDF the client will actually read

SnapCor was built to attack that bottleneck directly. By combining automation, embedded formulas and on-device report generation, SnapCor can reduce electrical thermography reporting time by 70% or more – without compromising on technical quality or compliance.

This article breaks down how.

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Where Electrical Thermography Reporting Time Is Really Wasted

Before we talk about SnapCor, it’s worth mapping the typical “old-school” workflow.

1. After the survey: data chaos

• Dozens or hundreds of thermal images on the camera
• Visual images in a different folder
• Asset lists and notes in Excel, paper, or memory
• Load and ambient readings scattered in notebooks or voice memos

Just organising everything into a usable structure can take hours.

2. Manual calculations and grading

For each anomaly, the engineer has to:

• Look up measured temperatures and load
• Apply load correction and temperature rise formulas
• Decide if it’s a minor, serious or critical issue
• Cross-check against internal standards or BS 7671 expectations

It’s slow, error-prone and hard to keep consistent across a team.

3. Writing the report

Then comes the “word processor shuffle”:

• Pasting images and tables into Word
• Manually building summary tables by board, location or severity
• Writing root cause, risk and remedial actions from scratch for each fault
• Reformatting until the document looks professional enough to send

For a large site, it’s easy to spend 4–6 hours on reporting alone.

SnapCor’s design philosophy is simple: everything that can be automated, should be.

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The Three Pillars: Speed, Automation, Accuracy

SnapCor delivers its time savings by focusing on three core areas.

1. Speed: On-Site Report Generation

SnapCor runs on Android phones and tablets and is built around on-site reporting:

• You capture images and data directly against each asset in the app.
• As you work, SnapCor builds fault pages and summary tables in the background.
• At the end of the inspection, you tap “Generate Report” and get a fully formatted PDF in under a minute (even for dozens of images).

No more “I’ll send the report in a few days.” The report leaves the site when you do.

2. Automation: Embedded Logic Instead of Spreadsheets

SnapCor uses the proven TICOR engine under the hood, which means:

• Automatic load correction for electrical faults
• Automatic severity grading (Minor / Important / Serious / Critical)
• Pre-configured templates for LV/HV panels, MCCs, switchboards, UPS, busbars, etc.
• Drop-down root cause and remedial libraries, instead of typing from scratch

You still capture the same technical data – but SnapCor does the maths and grading for you.

3. Accuracy: Consistency Across Engineers and Sites

Because the logic is standardised:

• The same inputs always produce the same severity band.
• Fault wording can be standardised across a whole team.
• Reports are aligned with your internal rules and industry expectations, not whatever each engineer remembers on the day.

This doesn’t just save time; it raises the overall quality and defensibility of your reporting.

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Inside the SnapCor Workflow (Electrical Thermography)

Let’s walk through a typical electrical survey and see where the time savings appear.

Step 1 – Prepare the Inspection

Before you arrive on site, you (or a planner):

1. Import or create the asset list (boards, feeders, key loads).
2. Choose the electrical thermography template.
3. Sync the job to the SnapCor device.

Time saved vs old-school: No manual re-entry of asset names or locations after the visit.

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Step 2 – Capture Thermal & Visual Images

On site:

1. Select the board or asset from the preloaded list.
2. Capture a thermal image from your camera and attach it.
3. Capture or attach a visual image for context.

 

SnapCor links everything to the correct asset instantly.

Time saved vs old-school: No renaming files or matching “IMG_1034.jpg” to “LV Board 5 – Feeder 4” back at the office.

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Step 3 – Record Measurements Once

For any anomaly you find:

• Enter measured temperatures (hot spot & reference).
• Enter load (current/percentage) and ambient temperature.
• Add any quick notes.

SnapCor then:

• Calculates temperature rise / delta T.
• Applies load correction if needed.
• Assigns a severity rating.

You see a complete fault page taking shape as you stand in front of the panel.

Time saved vs old-school: No manual calculator work or spreadsheet entry later. You never type the same numbers twice.

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Step 4 – Let SnapCor Handle the Narrative

For each fault, you select options from SnapCor’s knowledge-based library:

• Anomaly type: loose termination, overload, phase imbalance, neutral overheating, etc.
• Suspected root cause: poor termination, design issue, contamination, component degradation.
• Remedial action: re-make terminations, balance phases, uprate cable/breaker, further investigation, etc.

These are pre-written, professional phrases – you just choose and tweak.

Time saved vs old-school: No more “blank page” problem when writing: “Terminations to be checked, cleaned and re-made to prescribed standard…” for the 50th time this week.

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Step 5 – Instant PDF Report On-Site

Once the inspection is complete:

1. Tap Generate Report.
2. SnapCor compiles:
3. Export or email the PDF directly from the device (or sync when back online).

For a typical site, this step takes seconds, not hours.

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What Does “70% Time Reduction” Look Like in Practice?

Let’s put some realistic numbers around it.

Old-School Example

• 150 images (say, 80 panels with multiple anomalies)
• 1 working day on site to capture everything
• 4–6 hours in the office to:

Total reporting time: 4–6 hours (often billed as half a day or more).

With SnapCor

• 1 working day on site (same as before)
• Reporting happens as you inspect:

End of the day: tap “Generate Report”, wait under a minute, export PDF.

Total additional reporting time: 30–60 minutes (mainly for final review and client-specific tweaks).

That’s a 70%+ reduction in reporting time – and on some repeat jobs, it can be even more.

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For Teams: Multiplied Savings and Consistency

For a single thermographer, saving 3–4 hours per large job is already attractive. For a team, it compounds quickly:

• More jobs completed per week, same headcount
• Easier to train new staff to produce high-quality reports
• Managers get consistent, comparable reports across all engineers and sites
• Less overtime and admin fatigue

SnapCor also integrates with a central platform so larger organisations can:

• Trend temperature and severity over time
• Prioritise remedial work by criticality and site
• Demonstrate performance and risk reduction to stakeholders.

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Accuracy: Why Faster Doesn’t Mean Sloppier

A natural concern: “If the software is so fast, are we losing quality?”

In practice, SnapCor improves accuracy:

• Formulas and thresholds are embedded, not rekeyed from memory.
• Severity grading is consistent and defensible.
• Every fault page is structured the same way, reducing the chance of missing key data.
• The thermographer sees the report structure as they go, making it easier to spot anomalies or missing information in real time.

Fast doesn’t mean rushed; it means automated where it should be, human where it matters.

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Best Practices to Get the Full 70% Reduction

To unlock the biggest time savings:

1. Standardise templates Agree on one electrical thermography report style across your organisation.
2. Train the team on the in-field workflow The more you capture correctly on-site, the less you touch back at the desk.
3. Use the knowledge-based library Encourage engineers to use standard root cause and remedial phrases as a baseline and customise only when needed.
4. Review on-site with the client Use SnapCor’s fault pages to walk the client through critical issues before you leave, so there are fewer follow-up edits.
5. Sync regularly to the central platform Keep your trend data clean and up to date – it will make future surveys and planning even faster.

 

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Ready to Make Reporting the Fastest Part of the Job?

Electrical thermography doesn’t have to mean long evenings wrestling with spreadsheets and Word documents.

With SnapCor, you can:

• Capture inspections as you always have
• Let the software handle calculations, grading and formatting
• Generate professional, client-ready PDFs on-site
• Cut reporting time by around 70% – while improving consistency and technical quality

 

SnapCor’s subscription model launches on 1 January, with support for Android mobiles and tablets, so your thermography team can adopt this workflow without changing cameras or hardware.

If you’re ready to turn reporting from a bottleneck into a competitive advantage, SnapCor is built to do exactly that.