Jason Tranter
Two Minute Tips
Why Do I Need to Use Time Waveform Analysis?
Spectrum analysis provides a great deal of information about the health of rotating machinery. But you should consider the spectrum as a summary of the vibration within the machine...
- Jason Tranter
- Mobius Institute
Articles
How Do You Make Your Condition Monitoring Program More Valuable?
If you are involved with condition monitoring you probably believe you add value to the organization; your warnings of impending failure allow the company to avoid downtime, reduce costs, and much more. But does management believe you are providing a valuable service...
- Jason Tranter
- Mobius Institute
Five Minute Facts
How Do You Interpret Particle Count Readings?
It’s a very common test to look at the cleanliness of oil or hydraulic fluid, and it’s based on this standard called ISO 4406...
- Jason Tranter
- Mobius Institute
Five Minute Facts
When Do You Need to Perform Wear Particle Analysis?
Do you have critical gearboxes where if the gearbox failed, it would cause a lot of downtimes or cost a lot to repair...
- Jason Tranter
- Mobius Institute
Five Minute Facts
Do Environmental Test Conditions Affect IR Test Results?
The answer is yes, they do affect the test results. Thermal imaging cameras and spot radiometers detect the thermal radiation...
- Jason Tranter
- Mobius Institute
Five Minute Facts
Do IR Cameras Measure Temperature?
Thermal imaging cameras and spot radiometers detect the thermal radiation emitted by a surface, so they don’t actually measure temperature...
- Jason Tranter
- Mobius Institute
Five Minute Facts
What is Emissivity?
Emissivity is defined as the ratio of the energy radiated from a material’s surface to that radiated from a black body (a perfect emitter of infrared radiation) at the same temperature and wavelength and under the same viewing conditions...
- Jason Tranter
- Mobius Institute
Case Studies and Stories
Hydra Main Propulsion Gearbox
Once upon a time, there was a ship called the Hydra. They were suspicious that the gears or bearings in the main gearbox were failing and asked a vibration analyst to perform a test. The analyst turned to me for help...
- Jason Tranter
- Mobius Institute
Articles
Go Beyond Condition Monitoring; Condition Improvement
We all know what a great job vibration analyst’s perform. They are all that stands between a manageable plant and the chaos and mayhem that can result from machines failing unexpectedly...
- Jason Tranter
- Mobius Institute
