Articles
Lubrication Process Transformation
The Mosaic Company is a leader in crop nutrition and aims to help the world grow the food it needs. Reliability is essential to the company’s mission, and lubrication is a crucial part of its condition monitoring program...
The Ideal Vibration Analyst
The condition monitoring technologies, vibration analysis, in particular, are challenging to master. That is an understatement. Focusing on vibration analysis, it is a sad fact that “anyone” can set up a program, take readings, view spectra, and say that they are running a vibration monitoring program...
- Jason Tranter
- Mobius Institute
Applications for Motor Current Signature Analysis
The fundamental purpose behind the original development of MCSA technology was the detection of rotor bar faults. Rotor bars are difficult to assess using traditional test methods, including vibration analysis...
- Howard Penrose
- MotorDoc LLC
Hello and Welcome to CBM CONNECT
Welcome to the new home of condition monitoring; CBM CONNECT! The site is designed to provide you with educational articles, videos, and podcasts...
- Jason Tranter
- Mobius Institute
Vibration: A Very Broad Technology
Vibration technology has a lot of adjustability from a frequency analysis perspective. You can adjust your frequency coverage...
- Don Sanger
- IVC Technology
In-Rush Start-up Current Test Prevents Catastrophic Pump Failure
The nameplate information for the 2B circulating water pump showed 4,000 V, 3,000 HP, 409 FLA, and 355 rpm. It had 240 slots and 196 bars. While this is not normal information to include on the nameplate, especially on older motors, it is good information for the specialist to have...
How to Measure Tribology Using a 100 kHz Sampling Rate Vibration Analyzer
We can use vibration analysis to see what goes on in the interface between moving surfaces and, therefore, catch potential problems there...
- Ray Garvey
- I-care Reliability Inc.
Introduction to Particle Counting
Particle counting may be performed using two different techniques, each with their own limitations and interference's, but one aspect they share in common is that they are both only a quantitative count...
- Evan Zabawski
- Test Oil
Sources of Sodium
Sodium is also an indicator of contamination with salt, whether it is from moisture ingression from a nearby source of salt water, or airborne particulate ingression from nearby roads that are salted in the wintertime...
- Evan Zabawski
- Test Oil