Two Minute Tips
What Is Your Bearing Risk Appetite?
One question is, how much does it matter that we know how much life exists in our bearings? Ask yourself, what happens if it fails? How much does it affect the plant...
- Jason Tranter
- Mobius Institute
What Is a Reliable Asset?
Ensuring assets are reliable means leaning heavily on condition-based maintenance strategies.......
- Frederic Baudart
- Fluke
Condensate Water Pump Resonance Caused by a Bearing Defect
This case involves a motor-driven vertical condensate water pump. A couple of weeks after commissioning, we noticed a severe increase in vibration…
- Ali Al-Shurafa
- Saudi Aramco
The Physics Behind Vibration and Resonance
Our objective is to collect the vibration in order to identify the input—the force. From basic physics, if you have a mass and shake it by a force, it will vibrate corresponding to...
- Ali Al-Shurafa
- Saudi Aramco
Detecting Pump Faults Using Motion Amplification
I’ve used motion amplification in industry intensively over the last two years. We’ve had some great successes with it, and it’s changed the way I do my work. We used this technology on cooling water pumps that are…
- Stuart Walker
- Reliability Maintenance Solutions Ltd
How Do Speed and Load Affect Bearing Life?
Bearing life is proportional to speed. If we double the speed, we halve the life. And the life is proportional to the cube of the load. In other words, the higher the load...
- Jason Tranter
- Mobius Institute
What Is Condition-Based Maintenance?
What do you think condition monitoring is? Some say it's monitoring the condition of the machine and trending. Others say it's a strategy for giving an alert...
- Adnan Aslam
- Jubail O&M Company Limited
When Do You Need to Know About Bearing Faults?
If you understand the P-F interval, we want to get an idea of when the bearing will fail. But first we need to understand the failure modes and the nature of the machine in question. Because if we have...
- Jason Tranter
- Mobius Institute
How Does the World’s Largest Paper Mill Work?
Paper Machine #6 is one of the largest paper machines in the world. The machine speed is 1500 mpm and it has more than 250 rollers, meaning more than 500 bearings. To monitor it all, we use...
- Muhammad Trendo
- Indah Kiat Pulp & Paper Perawang