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If you are not using airborne ultrasound in your facility, you should be.  Most of you know all the regular uses of ultrasound: finding air leaks, arcing, tracking, corona, and failing bearings.  However, the "biggest bang for the buck" I got from ultrasound was its ability to quantify or tell how much air was leaking from our compressed air supply system leaks.  I did not need the ultrasound gun to find the leaks, they would blow your hat off when you walked buy.  I would tell management about the leak and get "it's just air" in reply.  The bean counters would not approve overtime on Saturday to fix "just an air leak".  They simply did not understand how much air and therefore money was leaking out of that pipe.  By using ultrasound, I could determine the cost of that leak and make a case to management to allow overtime to fix it.  It was so easy "even a bean counter could do it".  While there are many uses for airborne ultrasound, convincing management to do what it should do is one of the easiest and most cost effective.