10 Minute Talk
So You Think You Want an Online Monitoring System?
If you’re interested in implementing online monitoring in your plant, there are several things to consider. Ian Liebler explains…
- Ian Liebler
- Emerson Automation Solutions
Two Minute Tips
How to Choose the Right Locations to Measure with Ultrasound
By nature, high-frequency sound is very low-energy, so it tends not to travel far from its source. On a motor-and-pump setup, for instance, we’d ideally like to take our readings…
- Rob Kalwarowsky
- Rob's Reliability
10 Minute Talk
Turbo Machinery 101
Salah Attia tells us about different types of turbines and the alarm levels that should be set to protect these critical machines…
- Salah Attia
- ALS Industrial
Two Minute Tips
Delaying End of Life
Everything, including motors, has an end of life. Our reliability goal is to identify conditions conducive to failure and correct them so the end of life doesn’t come early...
- Noah Bethel
- PdMA Corporation
Articles
General Computer Program for Two-Plane Balancing of Rigid Rotors
This technical article develops a universal computer program for the two-plane balance of rigid rotors, by means of a unified treatment of the system and the convention for the phase measurement, which can be used by any general balancing equipment...
- Jose Mendez Adriani
- Central University of Venezuela
Two Minute Tips
How Would I Perform an Electrical Asset Inspection Using a Custom Maintenance Inspection Window?
As part of the maintenance team at your company, you already know that electrical components and assets need to be inspected regularly while under full load. Your company’s condition based maintenance procedures call for inspections of the energized electrical assets in a safe and guarded condition using...
- Martin Robinson
- IRISS Inc.
Two Minute Tips
Artificial Intelligence vs Vibration-Based Diagnostics
What is important to know is that vibration monitoring techniques that are widely used at present generate the domain of informative features of equipment defects in a form that is extremely problematic for automatic systems. The main issue is...
- Pawel Lecinski
- CMRP
10 Minute Talk
When Vibration from Trains Damages Buildings
In large cities in India, such as Delhi, metros cause a lot of damage to buildings. Stories have appeared on the news of people who have to repair their houses again and again…
- Ashish Arora
- Institute of Noise & Vibration
Case Studies and Stories
Online Vibration Monitoring System Improves Fault Detection in a SAG Mill
Though we never failed to detect actual failures, there were other things going on: overheating, noise, etc. When those issues arose, we were called to the mine to check the equipment. Of course, this would happen at the most inconvenient times...
- Dana Lake
- ACOEM
