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

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...

Five Minute Facts
  • Oil Analysis + Wear Particle

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...

Webinars
  • Ultrasound

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…

Two Minute Tips
  • Vibration Analysis

Your Accelerometer Questions Answered

Whether you’re new to vibration monitoring and considering which accelerometers are appropriate for your application or are simply replacing existing accelerometers, selecting the right equipment for your requirements is critical to the effectiveness of the vibration monitoring process…

Two Minute Tips
  • Vibration Analysis

Detecting Pump Faults Using Motion Amplification

I’ve used motion amplification in industry intensively over the last two years. We’ve had some great successes with it, and it’s changed the way I do my work. We used this technology on cooling water pumps that are…

Two Minute Tips
  • Vibration Analysis

How Do Speed and Load Affect Bearing Life?

Bearing life is proportional to speed. If we double the speed, we halve the life. And the life is proportional to the cube of the load. In other words, the higher the load...

Two Minute Tips
  • Condition Monitoring Management

What Is Condition-Based Maintenance?

What do you think condition monitoring is? Some say it's monitoring the condition of the machine and trending. Others say it's a strategy for giving an alert...

  • Adnan Aslam
  • Jubail O&M Company Limited
Two Minute Tips
  • Alignment + Balancing

Drilling Basics: Learn about Operations

Drilling is nothing but making a hole in order to access the earth's surface. A rig is a platform with a group of machines to make a hole to reach the natural resources. In the Middle East...

  • Nishanthan Senkuttuvan
  • Osborne Engineering Limited
Five Minute Facts
  • Vibration Analysis

Motion Amplification Saves a Paper Mill Drive

Drive 13 was a large structure, variable speed. Historically, they were getting raised vibration levels, between 1650 and 1750 MPM depending on the speed. We suspected a resonance problem…

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