Five Minute Facts
What CBM Looks Like at the World’s Largest Integrated Water and Power Facility
Marafiq IWPP is the world's largest integrated water and power facility. We generate 2743 megawatts of electricity and produce 177 million gallons of water per day. On the power side, we currently have four blocks...
- Adnan Aslam
- Jubail O&M Company Limited
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
Two Minute Tips
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
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
Improving Condition Monitoring in Public Service Buildings
Some people are surprised to hear about condition monitoring being applied in a library. In the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, we have 60 or more pumps, around 100 AHUs, and around 11 transformers and generators. We started the condition monitoring program in...
- Eslam Abdelmohsen
- Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Two Minute Tips
What Drives up the Cost of Rigs?
The turnover of the rig is based on the number of days in operation. If I rent a car and keep it at home, it's a waste of money. It's the same principle...
- Nishanthan Senkuttuvan
- Osborne Engineering Limited
