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
Five Minute Facts
Improving Oil Cleanliness – Your 2021 Maintenance Resolution – Part 1
Is increasing oil cleanliness on your 2021 to-do list? Oil contamination continues to be one of the biggest causes of component failure and productivity declines. Oil cleanliness starts at the beginning with inspecting and filtering your new and incoming oil.
- Bernie Hall
- Checkfluid
Two Minute Tips
MCA™ Improves DC Motor Testing Capabilities
Tasks for DC motors such as commutator & brush inspections, lubrication, are very important for their long-term successful operation. However, these inspections fail to determine the condition of the electrical winding or insulation..
- Mark Koch
- ALL-TEST Pro, LLC
Interviews
Meet MOBIUS CONNECT Ambassador: Ramy Kamal
Ramy Kamal works as a Condition Monitoring Department Supervisor in Atlasco Egypt for more than 7 years. He started his career with vibration Analysis through Mobius Training CAT I which make him move in this career and became an expert in Vibration Analysis. He is also certified in Machinery Lubrication and Ultrasound. As a Brand Ambassador for MOBIUS CONNECT, Ramy....
- Ramy Kamal
- Atlasco Egypt
Two Minute Tips
Key features for a Vibration Analyst
For more complex analysis, analysts require further tools to diagnose better the issues. Playing the TWF as an audio file is a good way of listening to the vibration to potentially hear knocking, pinging or high frequency whistling, denoting a problem to further diagnose, as if you were actually beside the machine.
- Alan McCall
- Sensoteq
Five Minute Facts
Gear Defects and Faults
Gear faults typically occur in the teeth of a gear mechanism due to fatigue, spalling, or pitting. These can be manifested as cracks in the gear root or removal of metal from the tooth surface. Gears are the main elements of power transmission in many industrial applications and are subjected to significant stresses and loading.
- Dara O'Sullivan
- Analog Devices, Inc
Two Minute Tips
Drive Input Imbalances
Current imbalances are sometimes referred to as a burglar alarm; generally problematic and need further diagnosis. However, imbalance at the inverter input under lightly loaded conditions is a normal phenomenon of the electrical circuit..
- Noah Bethel
- PdMA Corporation
White Papers
Why MEMS Accelerometers Are Becoming the Designer’s Best Choice for CbM Applications
A small number of semiconductor manufacturers have overcome the noise, bandwidth and g-Range shortcomings commonly associated with MEMS sensors used in Condition based Monitoring (CbM) by producing several medium and high-performance MEMS vibration sensors with the latter being comparable to piezo accelerometers.
- Chris Murphy
- Analog Devices, Inc
Case Studies and Stories
Reducing Vibration of Pump Bearing Housing
AVT Reliability® has been involved in resolving a wide range of high operational vibration issues with plant and machinery and including pipework vibration. This has led AVT Reliability® to design and develop a comprehensive range of versatile vibration solutions.
- AVT Reliability
Road Map to Better Oil Sampling - Live Webinar
Thursday, March 11, 2020 | 11:00am – 12:00pm
Efficient Vibration Data Collection For Condition Based Maintenance Programs- Live Webinar
Tuesday, March 16, 20201| 1000am – 11:00am
