Vibration Analysis
Five Minute Facts
Vibration Monitoring Is Critical For Food And Drink
Explore why vibration monitoring is critical for the food and drink industry in this short 5 minute fact...
- Chris Hansford
- Hansford Sensors
Two Minute Tips
Puzzling Pump Problem Decoded with Motion Amplification
Routine measurements of a pump showed vibration levels of 5 mm/sec at 2X, which is high. We checked for misalignment and soft foot, but…
- Dean Whittle
- Reliability Maintenance Solutions Ltd
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
Case Studies and Stories
HD Technologies Case Study: Ball Mill Bearing Damage
This case study describes bearing damage detected through online measurements taken from a ball mill at the flotation plant of Asarel Medet AD in Bulgaria. At the beginning, the SPM HD trend had varying shock pulse levels...
- Dobromir Dobrev
- SPM Instrument Bulgaria EOOD
Five Minute Facts
Use HD Technology to Manage the Risk of Bearing Faults
Overall vibration catches bearing damage very late, when there may be 0.1% of the bearing lifetime left. Traditional vibration, let’s say systems with poor signal-to-noise ratio...
- Rick Verbij
- SPM Netherlands
10 Minute Talk
HD Technology Saves an Extruder Gear Pump
A gear pump was used in a plastic extruder, where the gear’s head pumps the plastic mold from the barrel into the pelletizer. The extruder was already fitted with a condition monitoring system, but in early 2016 our customer decided...
- Rick Verbij
- SPM Netherlands
10 Minute Talk
HD Technology Shines in an Ultra-Low-RPM Application
The support wheel bearings in a calciner case had an ultra-low rpm: 3.4–3.9. The customer had been utilizing a traditional vibration analysis system for a number of years, but they lacked a pre-warning time and faced high risk…
- Rick Verbij
- SPM Netherlands
Two Minute Tips
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
Five Minute Facts
What Is Shock Pulse?
The shock pulse method was invented in the late 1960s. In rolling element bearings, there is a phenomenon where electric waves, or elastic waves, or shock pulses, or impact signals, are...
- Rick Verbij
- SPM Netherlands
