Articles
Welcome to the CBM Community
Welcome to the home of condition monitoring; CBM CONNECT! The site is designed to provide you with educational articles, videos, and podcasts...
- Jason Tranter
- Mobius Institute
Five Minute Facts
Facts Identified During an Oil Coking Investigation
A heater was burning the oil, and that residual burnt oil was contaminating the system and choking up the filter within just a few hours. Here are some facts we identified when we investigated...
- Ghulam Jillani
- Dubai Natural Gas Company Limited
Webinars
Acoustic Lubrication with Ultrasound
Acoustic lubrication is an essential tool for increasing uptime, reducing costs and eliminating reactive maintenance tasks. But what is grease and how does lubrication affect your process and equipment…
- Allan Rienstra
- SDT International
Five Minute Facts
A Closer Look at Thrust Ball Bearing Damage
Thrust bearings are usually located on the non-drive end of the equipment. This is a small pump you'd expect to be driven by a motor. But the bearings of horizontal motors are not designed to...
- Ali Al-Shurafa
- Saudi Aramco
Five Minute Facts
The Basics of Rigs: the Vital Role They Play in Exploration
Offshore, or marine, rigs are based on sea and onshore rigs are based on land. We select the type of rig based on the geological location and how deep we need to drill. The major concept of rigs is...
- Nishanthan Senkuttuvan
- Osborne Engineering Limited
Two Minute Tips
How Does the World’s Largest Paper Mill Work?
Paper Machine #6 is one of the largest paper machines in the world. The machine speed is 1500 mpm and it has more than 250 rollers, meaning more than 500 bearings. To monitor it all, we use...
- Muhammad Trendo
- Indah Kiat Pulp & Paper Perawang
Nine Minutes of Knowledge
Improving Condition Monitoring in Public Service Buildings
Some people are surprised to hear about condition monitoring being applied in a library. In the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, we have 60 or more pumps, around 100 AHUs, and around 11 transformers and generators. We started the condition monitoring program in...
- Eslam Abdelmohsen
- Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Two Minute Tips
What Drives up the Cost of Rigs?
The turnover of the rig is based on the number of days in operation. If I rent a car and keep it at home, it's a waste of money. It's the same principle...
- Nishanthan Senkuttuvan
- Osborne Engineering Limited
Nine Minutes of Knowledge
How to Implement Your PDM Program
We began taking measures to overcome some of the difficulties we'd found. For example, for the aluminium motors, we fabricated some cubes to attach the sensors. All our devices are...
- Eslam Abdelmohsen
- Bibliotheca Alexandrina
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