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  • Condition Monitoring

iCOMOX: Connectivity Options and Application

The Intelligent Condition Monitoring Box also known as iCOMOX is an open-source sensor fusion platform designed for Condition-based Monitoring (CbM) applications. The iCOMOX can measure vibration, sound, temperature, and magnetic field displacement. This device can...

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  • Defect Elimination

Investigating Structural Resonance

AVT Reliability® is frequently asked to investigate problems caused by structural resonance. This is the name given to the dynamic behaviour of a structural item of plant or machinery when excited near to one of its natural frequencies..

  • AVT Reliability
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  • Condition Monitoring

A Condition Monitoring Toolbox for Gearboxes

When measuring on a gearbox with a vibration transducer, you almost always see a clear gear mesh signature in the spectrum; regardless if the gearbox is in mint condition or an older, worn gearbox, you still see the gear mesh. The mechanical explanation of this phenomenon can be found when studying the interaction of the teeth involved...

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  • Condition Monitoring

Things that Go Bump in the Night: How Iris CM™ Will Change the On-Line Monitoring Market

It is Saturday night, 2 a.m. Your mobile phone rings, and caller ID reveals that it is work calling. Something has gone wrong – or maybe not, but since you are the reliability engineer, you are the one expected to drop everything, go in, and figure it out. The guys that called, operations, only know that they heard or felt something unfamiliar.

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  • Condition Monitoring

A Front Line Defense in the War on Contamination

Are you losing the battle on extending equipment life? Are you changing your oil too often or having machine failures? Most companies are now realizing that maintaining clean oil is one of the best investments it can make, with contamination at the core of premature machinery failure and diminished lubricant life.

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  • Condition Monitoring

Give Yourself a “Thermal Lobotomy”

Thermal Lobotomy: The virtual act of severing the concept of reflection from that of emission in order to prevent thermographers from suffering destructive and repetitive inspection methodology...

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  • Asset Strategy

Using Electrical Maintenance Safety Devices to Bridge the Skills Gap

With an impending skills gap among technical workers, proactive maintenance plans must also be safe, efficient and easier to implement …

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  • Condition Monitoring
  • Implementation Strategy

Leveraging IoT for Condition-Based Maintenance

Let's start with the basics. What is condition-based Maintenance? Condition-based maintenance (CBM) is a maintenance strategy that ...

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  • Data Analytics & IIoT
  • Implementation Strategy

Hybrid Analytics: The Value of Machine and Human Supervision

Big Data is a power to be harnessed. For the nearly three decades since the concept of Big Data entered the public consciousness, researchers, programmers and data scientists have struggled with the best way to leverage the information and take full advantage of it...

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