looseness
Two Minute Tips
Structural Looseness in the System
Structural rigidity in the system plays a pivotal role in controlling vibrations. Once you have structural looseness, it starts dodging you with an unbalanced case and you start wasting your time in checking other things...
- Muhammad Muneeb Babar
- Al Jouf Cement Company
Two Minute Tips
Case Study: Inner Race and Shaft Rotational Looseness
Upon inspection, marking was done with white marker between inner race and shaft to confirm the looseness. On the next visit, the mark was clearly moved...
- Muhammad Muneeb Babar
- Al Jouf Cement Company
Webinars
Improving Reliability by Focusing on the ‘Big Four’ C.A.L.L.
What is your stump speech to rally your team to ensure everyone is focused on the right things to help improve your reliability posture? By having an easy acronym such as C.A.L.L., which stands for Contamination, Alignment, Looseness and Lubrication your team members can easily stay focused on executing the proper best practices as it applies to each of these elements.
- Paul Dufresne
- Reliability Playbook, in Partnership with Lubrication Engineers
Five Minute Facts
Motion Amplification Case Study: Structural Looseness
This case study features a convection oven fan used in the customer's production process. Multiple welds and other repairs were made prior to the inspection. A service team was called in to balance the fan, but with Motion Amplification it quickly became clear that there was a serious structural issue.
- Andrew Dougherty
- RDI Technologies
Webinars
How to Detect and Diagnose Gearbox Bearing Looseness On a Wind Turbine
Case study on detecting and diagnosing gearbox bearing looseness on a wind turbine drive train.
- Jørgen Ellekjær
- Brüel & Kjær Vibro
Case Studies and Stories
Reducing Costs with ESA and MCA™ Technology
More than 300 million electric motors are used in infrastructure, large buildings, and industry globally. These motors account for about 2/3rds of the industrial power consumption. Electricity is required in almost all areas of the plant to provide the driving force that either operates the equipment that produces the products or provides the services that the plant’s equipment was built to perform..
- Mark Koch
- ALL-TEST Pro, LLC
Case Studies and Stories
How to Analyse a Bearing Condition
This case study is done in association with a global rail company where VibCloud is utilised for ongoing locomotive monitoring for many years now. Case study demonstrates how to analyse vibration in order to determine bearing condition.
- Petar Spaseski
- iTnnovate
Five Minute Facts
Treating Looseness
Looseness is not a force, but rather a reaction to a force. To treat looseness, one needs to understand what type of looseness we are experiencing...
- Dennis Swanepoel
- WearCheck
Two Minute Tips
Mechanical Looseness on a Spectrum
There are three types of mechanical looseness. In this quick tip, we will take a look at all three and what the causes are...
- Brian Shanovich
- ACOEM
