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- Jason Tranter
- Mobius Institute
Five Minute Facts
Choosing the Right PM Intervals for Fuel Monitoring
Kevin Dagenais discusses the factors one must consider when determining PM intervals for fuel monitoring…
- Rob Kalwarowsky
- Rob's Reliability
Nine Minutes of Knowledge
SPM in Paper industry: 20 months pre-warning time with HD technology.
In this Nine Minutes of Knowledge, Datong shares a Paper machine case study and explains how to detect bearing defaults and what applications were used to fix the issue..
- Ivan Salim
- SPM Instrument Indonesia
Two Minute Tips
Bucket Wheel Drive Train
In the mining industry reclaimers are used at stockyards and ports, as materials handling equipment for loading trains and ships. These are critical equipment for maintaining throughput and a severe break down can easily run into millions of dollars of lost revenue and should be avoided. A failure in the bucket wheel bearings or drive units can put reclaimer out of service for many days.
- Hiren Limbachiya
- ONYX InSight
Five Minute Facts
The Damaging Effect Water Can Have on Your Electric Motors
This case study discusses the damaging effect water can have on an electric motor. Also discussed is the testing required to diagnose the problem with the motor and the cost savings by detecting and diagnosing the problem early.
- Noah Bethel
- PdMA Corporation
Two Minute Tips
Sensor Aging and MTBF
Most general-purpose industrial accelerometers tend to come with lifetime warranties so that if anything should happen within the boundaries of normal usage, you can receive a replacement quickly enough and get your vibration monitoring program back on track
- Peter Eitnier
- Wilcoxon Sensing Technologies
Two Minute Tips
Measuring Fuel Consumption through Heat Mapping
We had a customer who wanted to identify areas of the mine that could benefit from road maintenance. We started by taking samples of the fuel consumption rate…
- Rob Kalwarowsky
- Rob's Reliability
Two Minute Tips
Improving Oil Cleanliness – Your 2021 Maintenance Resolution – Part 2
Maintaining oil cleanliness is critical to the success of machine performance. Here are three things to consider for ensuring oil cleanliness in 2021.
- Bernie Hall
- Checkfluid
Five Minute Facts
Switching Strategies: Moving to Condition Based Maintenance
Balancing cost reduction and efficiency improvement targets is a common source of frustration for maintenance and engineering managers. For facilities that operate continuously with no window for unplanned shutdowns, poor reliability and availability of machinery is far more serious, but even in factories with regular opportunities for maintenance, recovery can still be expensive and time consuming.
- AVT Reliability
