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
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
Where Should You Focus Your CM Services?
We have many technologies available, such as vibration, ultrasound, infrared, and oil analysis. Now, we need to select which technology to use with each piece of equipment...
- Nishanthan Senkuttuvan
- Osborne Engineering Limited
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
Two Minute Tips
Thrust Development on a Typical Overhung Centrifugal Pump
Because of the differential pressure across the impeller, there is going to be x differential force, and the force is going to push the impeller and the shaft...
- Ali Al-Shurafa
- Saudi Aramco
