Two Minute Tips
What Is Intrinsic Safety and ATEX?
This useful 2 minute tip helps explain what Intrinsic Safety is and why it is important.…
- Chris Hansford
- Hansford Sensors
Preparing Your Steam Trap for Winter: Why It’s Important
The seasons are changing as your factory is performing seasonal upkeep to prepare for the coming winter. For steam systems, unit heaters will typically be switched on as workers will go about their regular duties. However, winter causes unique changes...
- Adrian Messer
- UE Systems
Electric Motor Reliability Trifecta: Quality Control (Part 1)
Trifecta refers to picking the top three finishers in a horse race, and it can be worth a lot of money. Applying that to motor reliability, what are the top three applications of test technology to ensure you win big in reliability? In this tip we will be exploring quality control...
- Noah Bethel
- PdMA Corporation
Understanding ISO Codes
Why are we so concerned about particulate in oil? The ISO codes, according to the ISO 4406:1999 standard, relate to only three different ranges of particles, ≥4 µm/≥6 µm/≥14 µm.........
- Evan Zabawski
- TestOil
Motion Amplification to Detect Installation Problems
This case involves a new installation at a site that does their own condition monitoring, and they noticed high vibration of 20 mm/sec. We captured the data and used motion amplification...
- Stuart Walker
- Reliability Maintenance Solutions Ltd
Qualities of a Good Image
A high-quality infrared image is where it all begins. This provides the best possible data for analysis of the object(s) of interest. Many of the requirements involve necessary setup for the collection of accurate radiometric data such as focus and range. This tip will share some of the most important items to consider when capturing a great infrared image.
- Roy Huff
- The Snell Group
Three Phase Motors: Single Phasing
Single phasing is a condition that occurs when one of the three phases that is supplying voltage to a three-phase motor is lost. When this occurs...
- Richard Scott
- ALL-TEST PRO
Service Life of Gear Oil
In this quick tip you will learn why gear oil should be removed and replaced with fresh lubricant when the oil had deteriorated or when the oil has become contaminated.....
- Daniel Roberts
- Lubrication Engineers
Introduction to the Poor Man’s ODS
The Poor Man’s ODS will be a five-part series; today's tip is Part One: the introduction to the Poor Man’s ODS. ODS stands for operation deflection shape analysis; this is a study of how a machine is moving in relation to a fixed reference point…
- Dennis Swanepoel
- WearCheck