Condition Monitoring
Two Minute Tips
What Is A Reliable Asset?
Ensuring assets are reliable means leaning heavily on condition-based maintenance strategies.......
- Frederic Baudart
- Accruent
Two Minute Tips
Ultrasound-Assisted Lubrication: What Does “Enough” Sound Like?
The concept is based on friction. If a bearing needs grease, there is an increase in friction and, therefore, an increase in noise. What we want to see happening is…
- Robert Kalwarowsky
- Rob's Reliability Project
Two Minute Tips
Can Ultrasound Be Used in a Noisy Plant?
Some people wait until a holiday or a plant shutdown to use ultrasound to look for air leaks. When the plant is quiet, they can hear the leaks with their own ears, but with ultrasound…
- Robert Kalwarowsky
- Rob's Reliability Project
Two Minute Tips
Introduction to the Poor Man’s ODS
The Poor Man’s ODS will be a five-part series; today's tip is Part One: the introduction to the Poor Man’s ODS. ODS stands for operation deflection shape analysis; this is a study of how a machine is moving in relation to a fixed reference point…
- Dennis Swanepoel
- WearCheck
Two Minute Tips
Electric Motor Reliability Trifecta: Quality Control (Part 1)
Trifecta refers to picking the top three finishers in a horse race, and it can be worth a lot of money. Applying that to motor reliability, what are the top three applications of test technology to ensure you win big in reliability? In this tip we will be exploring quality control...
- Noah Bethel
- PdMA Corporation
Two Minute Tips
Detecting Pump Faults Using Motion Amplification
I’ve used motion amplification in industry intensively over the last two years. We’ve had some great successes with it, and it’s changed the way I do my work. We used this technology on cooling water pumps that are…
- Stuart Walker
- Reliability Maintenance Solutions Ltd
Two Minute Tips
Sensor, Accelerometer, or Transmitter?
What is the difference between an accelerometer, transmitter, and vibration sensor? Find out...
- Chris Hansford
- Hansford Sensors
White Papers
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...
- Jim Fritz
- The Snell Group
Two Minute Tips
Determining the Number of Poles and RPM
Give me the number of poles and I can tell you the RPM; give me the RPM and I can tell you the number of poles. This instructional presentation discusses the formulas related to determining theses values...
- Don Donofrio
- The Snell Group
