Technology is great for solving problems, especially for complex problems when it's couple with expertise. But in many cases, the technology and the expertise is separated geographically. Thankfully communications technologies continue to advance to bridge the...
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Diagnostics to Detect Rotating Machinery Misalignment
Let's continue our route-based maintenance video series with a look at diagnostics to detect misalignment issues on rotating machinery. In this 5:53 YouTube video, Misalignment Detection: Cross Channel Phase and Fault Frequencies, Emerson's Drew Mackley demonstrates...
Rotating Equipment Bearings and Potholes
Concerning yesterday's post, Avoiding Bearing Failures with the Rule of Tens PeakVue Measurement Methodology, I received an email with a great analogy about pits in ball bearings and potholes. Driving your car on a freshly paved circular track is like a PeakVue...
Applying Wireless Vibration Monitoring in Electrical Power Stations
In a recent ME Plant & Maintenance article, Wireless Vibration Monitoring –improves reliability and enhances safety (pdf), a rotating machinery engineer describes how his power station used a wireless vibration transmitter to avoid shutting down a turbine...
Spotting and Fixing Resonance in Plant Equipment
Alain Pellegrino, a predictive maintenance technician with Emerson's local business partner Laurentide Controls, has a great article in ReliablePlant.com on resonance in plant equipment. The article, How to identify, correct a resonance condition, describes how...
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