vibration analysis
Two Minute Tips
Maintenance Tips for Cooling Towers
View a few maintenance tips for protecting cooling towers and stopping any unplanned downtime with your equipment. Knowing the best detection technologies available today and how these can best be used, maintenance engineers can not only prevent failure but also significantly maximize machine uptime.
- Chris Hansford
- Hansford Sensors
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
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
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
Interviews
Spotlight on Motion Amplification
CBM CONFERENCE presenter Tony Barlow sits down with CBM CONNECT to reflect on his experience in the industry and how his partnership with RDI Technologies plays a vital role in Motion Amplification…
- Tony Barlow
- Chevron
Five Minute Facts
What Is Shock Pulse?
The shock pulse method was invented in the late 1960s. In rolling element bearings, there is a phenomenon where electric waves, or elastic waves, or shock pulses, or impact signals, are...
- Rick Verbij
- SPM Netherlands
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
Interviews
Editorial Board Spotlight – Tim De Block
In this interview, Tim De Block shares how he got started in the vibration field, along with the possibilities for growth with PDM and what the future looks like for the condition monitoring industry…
- Tim De Block
- Fyraco Solutions
White Papers
A Case for Capturing and Analyzing Trends in Your Alignment Data
It is well known that misalignment is one of the greatest causes of failure in rotating equipment. In fact, research demonstrates that more than 50% of machine breakdowns are the direct result of poor alignment...
- Grant Dennler
- PRUFTECHNIK
