Case Studies and Stories
SPM Condition Monitoring Solution for Roller Press
SPM Instrument helps customer around the world to increase the assets availability and reliability. The case study shows SPM HD technology capable of capturing machinery defect at very early stage. The production prolonged for 7-9 months with SPM solution. The technology helps customer to improve the maintenance strategy and provide enough time to plan and act for achieving higher profitability.
- Thamo Yellappan
- Eastwest Online (M) Sdn Bhd
Reducing Costs with ESA and MCA™ Technology
More than 300 million electric motors are used in infrastructure, large buildings, and industry globally. These motors account for about 2/3rds of the industrial power consumption. Electricity is required in almost all areas of the plant to provide the driving force that either operates the equipment that produces the products or provides the services that the plant’s equipment was built to perform..
- Mark Koch
- ALL-TEST Pro, LLC
Digital Maintenance Plan Avoids More Than £25,000 In Wasted Costs For Yelo
Yelo’s manufacturing plant was custom-built to enable it to produce the highest quality vegetable oil and animal feed using only mechanical processes.
Asset availability and reliability is critical to the business and the management team understood that adopting a ‘run-to-failure’ reactive maintenance approach would be both costly and inefficient.
- Frederic Thomas
- AVT Reliability
Rotor Bar Fault Maintenance Issue: Vibration Sensor Alert
A 398 KW MV motor that runs a blower fan in a cement plant was showing strange behavior. The vibration equipment indicated vibration amplitudes that became chronic with the passage of time. The maintenance team, not knowing what the issue was, ran the motor until the bearings had to be replaced...
- Mark Koch
- ALL-TEST Pro, LLC
Detecting Lack of Lubrication with Wireless Vibration Sensors
Why wireless sensor Fmax is Critical. Lack of lubrication is a major cause of bearing damage & bearing failure. Therefore, it is critical for vibration sensors to be able to detect the higher frequency vibration resulting from lack of lubrication, which is generally far above 1kHz..
- Mike Olszewski
- Reliability Concepts
Successful PdM Saves Facility Time & Money
A work order was issued by a waste water treatment plant technician requesting electrical support due to a failed floating agitator.
- Mark Koch
- ALL-TEST Pro, LLC
A Most Unusual Problem Solved by Reliability-Focused Common Sense
The vibration and oil data for the gearbox in this Gypsum stirrer was normal. But we knew something was wrong. A borescope camera showed us something astounding...
- Matthew Fallow
- Asset Quality
Poor Lubrication – Brass Cages Are Boon
An antifriction bearing generally has 4 major components. In this case study we will discuss how brass cages are better in a highly dusty & contaminated poor lubrication condition...
- Akhil jeet Rathore
- Indorama Petrochemicals & Fertilizers
How We Diagnosed Our Cooling Water Pump Gearbox
This case study comes from a custom-made, four-story-high pump at Engro Fertilizers. In January 2014, we started noticing abnormal noise and vibration from the gearbox. But we couldn’t see anything apart from an increased gear mesh frequency…
- Haider Ali
- Engro Fertilizers