Cost Avoidance Within the Infrared World

Who does cost avoidance? What is it? Where would you apply it? Why would you worry about it? These are the questions that one should ask themselves. Most of the time is spent doing the physical work and analyzing that data to determine the condition or health of the equipment rather than thinking what our group did to save the company money. This article explains the methodology we used and why you should care about cost avoidance.

• Patricia Warner
• Cummins Inc.

Check Sheets- Something is Missing, I Think…

Have you ever completed an infrared survey and wondered if you’ve missed something that should have been inspected? Do you know the special safety instructions to open certain electrical cabinets? Has management ever asked you when was the last time that you’ve inspected a specific cabinet and you couldn’t answer them? If you have answered yes to any of these questions, you need to develop a check sheet for the equipment that you inspect.

• Patricia Warner
• Cummins Inc.

The First Step in AI Based Predictive Maintenance

With the increasing demand of IIoT in the age of digitalization, data-driven maintenance optimization of industrial equipment is one of the most trending topics among maintenance professionals. At the beginning, data gathered by various sensors placed on the machines or embedded in the machine itself are pre-processed.

• Anil Ulusoy
• Sensemore.io

Towards Better Understanding of Sidebands Generation

In vibration analysis terminology, Amplitude Modulation just like in telecommunication results when a certain frequency component is amplitude-modulated according to a specific time-dependent function. Amplitude modulation is very common phenomenon in machinery vibration.

• Jaafar Alsalaet
• SFC CO LTD

What is Vibration Analysis?

Any time a piece of machinery is running, it is vibrating.

Industrial vibration analysis refers to a process for measuring the vibration levels and frequencies of machinery and then using this information to assess the “health/condition” of the machine and its components.

• Ken Starry
• IVC Technologies

Crossword: Motor Testing

• Alynn Kayatta
• Mobius Institute

The best AI for vibration condition monitoring is the one that does not remove humans from the process

Industrial Artificial Intelligence (IAI) has one of the greatest potentials to affect the way companies manage their maintenance practices. Letting Machine Learning (ML) and algorithms take more responsibility can lead to more productive work routine and less unplanned stops and the high costs associated with it. But even with several proof points, why are maintenance professionals, particularly vibration analysts, still skeptical about it?

• Rajet Krishnan
• Viking Analytics

API Application: Online System Balancing

What is API and how can it be used in application? In this article, Anders Hultman discusses and demonstrates the procedure for 2-plane balancing, influence coefficients, and shows the excel application.

• Anders Hultman
• SPM Instrument AB