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
Two Minute Tips
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
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
Two Minute Tips
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
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
Two Minute Tips
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
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
White Papers
Bridging the Maintenance Gap to Condition-Based Maintenance Part II
EMSDs, along with data analysis and a new approach to maintenance called condition-based maintenance, can exploit the information age to not only bridge the knowledge gap, but to also improve the efficiency, safety, reliability and cost of electrical system maintenance…
- Martin Robinson
- IRISS Inc.
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
