Case Studies and Stories
Digital Maintenance Plan Avoids More Than £25,000 in Wasted Costs for Yelo
Yelo’s manufacturing plant was custom-built to enable it to produce the highest quality vegetable oil and animal feed using only mechanical processes.
Asset availability and reliability is critical to the business and the management team understood that adopting a ‘run-to-failure’ reactive maintenance approach would be both costly and inefficient.
- Frederic Thomas
- AVT Reliability
Five Minute Facts
Condition Monitoring is a Bit Like Going to the Doctor
Condition monitoring is a bit like going to the doctor. Doctors may look at your electrocardiogram, blood sample results, blood pressure and temperature. These tests are just a few of many examination techniques available to them, some more complex than others. So why are they done?
- Frederic Thomas
- AVT Reliability
Five Minute Facts
Machine Health Basics For The OEM Design Engineer
Analyzing machine vibration as a means of monitoring healthy operation and diagnosis of emerging problems is a relatively mature specialization, long practiced on turbines and motor-pump trains. Condition Monitoring for the factory today is generally implemented by a skilled practitioner equipped with a handheld data-logger, collecting and processing signals from a tethered vibration sensor during a periodically scheduled, route-based maintenance program.
- Ed Spence
- The Machine Instrumentation Group
Two Minute Tips
Motor Magnetic Center
Running a motor uncoupled will pull the motor rotor into a magnetic center, often marked on the shaft to ensure that the rotor is lined up on the magnetic center when it is coupled to the load. .
- Noah Bethel
- PdMA Corporation
10 Minute Talk
Averaging Overlap Percentage
In an FFT analyzer, overlap averaging is used to reduce noise in the vibration spectrum and speed up data collection process. This video discusses signal processing, averaging and the Fast Fourier Transform in the vibration data collector.
- Jason Tranter
- Mobius Institute
Two Minute Tips
Monitor Assets from Anywhere at Anytime
Remote working is a benefit of digital condition based maintenance that traditional approaches cannot compete with. Not only is it more effective, but it also helps lower individuals carbon foot print, by reducing unnecessary travel, says Frederic Thomas, Managing Director of AVT Reliability®..
- Frederic Thomas
- AVT Reliability
Five Minute Facts
Can Lubrication Programs Be Green?
The traditional environmental lubricant has been one that is either biodegradable or is formulated from biobased materials. From a more holistic standpoint, lubrication programs have been environmentally sustainable in other ways for years.
- John Sander
- Lubrication Engineers
Two Minute Tips
Keeping Track of Starts
Heat is often the final variable causing pre-mature aging and breakdown of your insulation system. Another component of your electric motor, overlooked for heat related failure is the rotor.
- Noah Bethel
- PdMA Corporation
Two Minute Tips
Detecting and Diagnosing Imbalance in a System
Next-generation sensors based on MEMS technology, combined with advanced algorithms for diagnostic and prognostic applications, expand opportunities to measure a variety of machines and improve the ability to effectively monitor equipment, improve uptime, enhance process quality, and increase throughput. This 2 minute tip reviews imbalance faults and their characteristics to provide insights into some of the key system requirements that must be considered when developing a condition-based monitoring solution.
- Pete Sopcik
- Analog Devices, Inc
