Vibration Analysis
Two Minute Tips
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
Two Minute Tips
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
Five Minute Facts
Visualizing Vibration
We're so used to measuring the heartbeat of the machine (the frequency), and the amplitude and severity of vibration. Here, we're going to use a technology called motion amplification to analyze how the machine moves visually...
- Dean Whittle
- Reliability Maintenance Solutions Ltd
Two Minute Tips
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
Two Minute Tips
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
10 Minute Talk
How to Implement Your PDM Program
We began taking measures to overcome some of the difficulties we'd found. For example, for the aluminium motors, we fabricated some cubes to attach the sensors. All our devices are...
- Eslam Abdelmohsen
- Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Two Minute Tips
Examples of Rotating Equipment
Just a couple examples of rotating equipment. Firstly, we have a pump in an ethanol plant in the north of England. Its history of vibration levels was not excessive, but 2X at 5 mm/sec is not quite the norm...
- Dean Whittle
- Reliability Maintenance Solutions Ltd
Interviews
Editorial Board Spotlight – Tim De Block
In this interview, Tim De Block shares how he got started in the vibration field, along with the possibilities for growth with PDM and what the future looks like for the condition monitoring industry…
- Tim De Block
- Fyraco Solutions
Two Minute Tips
HD Technology: The Bearing Failure Process
When we look at a new, healthy bearing under a microscope, we can see tiny surface imperfections, micro-cracks, or hard inclusions. Now imagine that the rollers are passing this point year after year...
- Tim Sundstrom
- SPM Instrument
