I’ve started hitting final drives, hubs, and idlers with a thermal gun after shutdown on our 793F and a PC5500, and it flagged an LH rear hub at 185°F last Tuesday before we rolled it back out. If you’ve folded IR temps into operator checks, how are you logging the readings so maintenance jumps on it and it reduces downtime, not just adds paperwork?
On our 793F walkarounds we stuck QR tags on each hub and scan to a tiny web form that pushes the temp and unit to SAP; if it’s >180°F or >25°F hotter than its mate, it auto-shoots a WO so it gets actioned, not just logged. One caveat — IR can lie on shiny housings, so we painted a 1-inch flat-black dot where we aim to keep readings consistent; your ‘185°F’ LH would’ve tripped it. You on SAP/Pronto, or something else?