Five Minute Facts
Getting A Spot-On Sample Every Time
Oil analysis depends on a representative oil sample as such, the entire oil sampling process should be focused on ensuring the oil entering the bottle contains complete information about your machine. Learn how you can get spot-on oil samples for your oil analysis programs.
- Bernie Hall
- Checkfluid
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
Two Minute Tips
Motor Storage
Proper motor storage is critical if we hope to achieve normal life expectancy from our electric motors. Not only is proper motor storage important for good motor health, it may be required to maintain a warranty on motors that we purchase..
- Noah Bethel
- PdMA Corporation
Five Minute Facts
Spectral Resolution-Averaging
Averaging and lines of resolution in FFT analyzer vibration spectrum. How many averages to take, data collection time in spectrum analyzer vibration data collector.
- Jason Tranter
- Mobius Institute
10 Minute Talk
Analyzer Settings
Fmax, lines of resolution, averages, and units in the FFT analyzer. The video describes important settings in the vibration data collector and FFT vibration analyzer when signal processing to create the vibration spectrum
- Jason Tranter
- Mobius Institute
Five Minute Facts
MEMS Vibration Sensing: Velocity to Acceleration
MEMS accelerometers are just now coming of age as vibration sensors in modern condition monitoring (CM) systems. Recent expansion of capability in measurement range, bandwidth, and resolution is enabling new concepts and system architectures...
- Mark Looney
- Analog Devices
Two Minute Tips
Demands on Vibration Sensors
Understand how MEMS-based accelerometers are helping meet the demands on vibration sensors into today’s Condition based Monitoring Applications. This 2 minute tip will highlight key features and benefits of MEMS-based accelerometers in comparison to piezosensors commonly used for CbM...
- Thomas Brand
- Analog Devices, Inc
White Papers
The Wearable for Machine Health: Condition-Based Monitoring
Condition-based monitoring (CbM) is the Industry 4.0 equivalent of wearable fitness devices. With the explosion of connectivity comes the opportunity to observe the physical world like never before and to see physical processes in action, in real time, in fine detail. In industrial....
- Stuart Servis
- Analog Devices
Case Studies and Stories
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
