Patent ID: 7542874

Claim:
A system for displaying inspection data collected from a furnace with a specified physical geometry, wherein said furnace comprises a plurality of tube segments interconnected by a plurality of bends so as to allow stacking of at least a portion of said tube segments, said system comprising: a storage device for storing said inspection data; and a computer programmed to: partition said inspection data at a plurality of data markers each of which identifies a location of a physical feature of said furnace so as to correlate said inspection data to said physical geometry of said furnace; generate a display of at least a portion of said partitioned inspection data arranged to represent said physical geometry of a plurality of said tube segments and enable visual detection of a problem area comprising one or more of said tube segments; and wherein said inspection data is collected by one or more devices selected from the following group: an ultrasonic transducer, a laser profilometer, and combinations thereof.