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  • Alignment + Balancing
  • Condition Monitoring Management
  • Lubrication
  • Motor Testing
  • Oil Analysis + Wear Particle
  • Thermography
  • Ultrasound
  • Vibration Analysis

Getting Started

Welcome to the home of condition monitoring; CBM CONNECT! The site is designed to provide you with educational articles, videos, and podcasts...

Case Studies and Stories
  • Vibration Analysis

How We Improved Our Overhead Crane Monitoring Program

When we were developing our overhead crane monitoring program for ArcelorMittal, we had to find a way to get rid of the influence from the wheel contacting the rails. This is similar to a challenge we encountered…

Five Minute Facts
  • Condition Monitoring Management

Use CBM to Stay Ahead of the Electrical D-I-P-F Curve

When your plant is ordering new electrical assets, it’s a good idea to find out if you can get the switchgear designed to be ready for infrared and ultrasound analysis. Is there an OEM out there…

  • Paul Goodbody
  • IRISS
Five Minute Facts
  • Thermography

Procedures

The development of inspection guidelines or procedures are crucial to the success and sustainability of infrared programs. They can improve safety, consistency and support the continuity of your program. This brief tip will introduce the benefits of creating and utilizing infrared procedures. Also examples of the concept of generic and specific guidelines that can be used on different equipment categories will be shown.

Five Minute Facts
  • Motor Testing

Calculating Eccentricity Frequencies

Eccentricity, as related to electric motors, simply means that the rotor is not radially or axially centered in the stator magnetic field. This instructional video demonstrates how to calculate these frequencies..

Five Minute Facts
  • Condition Monitoring Management

Challenges of Modern-Day Data Collection on Electrical Equipment

We must create the means for collecting on-demand real-time condition-status data on mission-critical electrical distribution systems and components. Data is the way forward. There is a skill shortage in our industry…

  • Paul Goodbody
  • IRISS
White Papers
  • Condition Monitoring Management

Technology Based Crane Monitoring and Diagnostics

Overhead cranes are often a single source cause of downtime in any manufacturing facility, especially when discussing those performing services in a steel mill’s melt shop. Often, these assets do not have redundancy that would allow for one to be taken....

Learning Paths
  • Condition Monitoring Management

Monitoring Failure Mechanisms

This course explains common failure mechanisms, types of equipment to which each applies, and recommends non-intrusive monitoring techniques to discover components in various stages of progressive failure.

Case Studies and Stories
  • Ultrasound

Use Ultrasound to Detect Faults in Slow-Speed Gears

When using ultrasound for slow-speed systems, there are some things to consider. The first is our alarm levels. Slow-speed bearings will have a relatively…

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