About the Author
I started my career attaining my National Diploma(S4) in Mechanical Engineering and becoming a Performance and Testing Technician in the Power Generation Industry. I have been in the field of Condition Monitoring for past 16 years. Starting out as an apprentice I managed to improve my knowledge in condition monitoring in various industries and becoming involved in training. In my first years in condition monitoring, I managed to be certified by Technical Associates as a trainer for their courses and started specializing in ODS and Modal Analysis. I have worked in various industries and are qualified in Vibration, Thermography and Oil analysis. I also specialize in operational Deflection shape analysis. Currently, my main duties are shared between starting up new service contracts, Special Investigations, Training (Mobius Training Partner) Industries that I have worked in include Power Generation, Coal Mining, Platinum/chrome refinery and mining, Waste Water Treatment, Food, Paper and Sugar Mills. My most recent achievement was to pass the Mobius CAT IV course and starting up two service contracts in the Power Generation Industry that include vibration, thermography, oil analysis, alignment.
high horizontal vibrations in motor 1x dominant what is the reason behind of this. Other than structure looseness and misalignment
Good Day
This could be structural weakness or piping strain. I will need additional information to think about what else to look at
Thanks dennis:
I am interested in your video, I see frequent problems of distortion of motor reducers in the way you mention in your video. But what to do to avoid oscillatory movement:
1. Increase the power of the archimedes screw.
2. Increase stiffness
3. Lower the overload
Thank you.
Good Day
You first need to establish if the motion is triggered by a resonance defect or a base/torque issue. Please E-Mail me more detail, drawings, images and spectra ten I can comment more in detail
Denniss@wearcheck.co.za
Wonderful lesson about ODS and it has opened me up and I am sure it will help me because I have face this challenge here at our plant. We have a fan which is at times having vibrations and we have check alignment several times but still experiencing vibration and tried other problems but still it happens and with ODS I hope to rectify it
Good to hear. I would like to see some spectra. If you are using CSI then you can also send me the database and I can possibly add a few other suggestions as well
denniss@wearcheck.co.za
Good day . I would like to learn about ODS . What Would you indicate for me ? Thanks
Good Day
ODS is a great tool for analysis of structures. Training for the subject could be undertaken in various ways, but it depends on you location and what software you are using
Regards