Condition Monitoring
Case Studies and Stories
Impact of Automation on Refrigeration Units and the Role of Power Quality
Alan Ross, president of EPRA, presents a case study involving a dairy storage facility. When they installed a series of new freezers with energy-efficient motors and compressors, and they automated the system, individual freezers began shutting down randomly…
- Alan Ross
- Electric Power Reliability Alliance EPRA
Five Minute Facts
Condition Monitoring Technologies – Pros and Cons of the Top Five
There are several different technologies that can be used, alone or in combination, to monitor the condition of your machinery from a predictive maintenance (PdM) perspective. The criticality of the machine affects the number of such inspection-type technologies that are applied to a given failure mode. The more critical the machine and the more critical the failure mode, the more redundancy you will want in the inspections.
- Timothy Weilbaker
- Allied Reliability, Inc.
Articles
Electrical Frequencies Calculation and AC Motor Faults Patterns. Part 1
The fault diagnosis of induction motors, being probably the most common drivers used for industrial machinery plays an important role to reduce the catastrophic failures and production lost tonnage.
- Pawel Lecinski
- CMRP
Two Minute Tips
What Happens When Failure Codes Are Set Up Incorrectly?
When failure codes are set up correctly, they can help you gather valuable information pertaining to your company’s assets that promotes preventative and efficient maintenance. This information can be applied to work orders and used for reliability analysis. However, when your failure codes are not correctly set up in SAP or Maximo this can impact your assets, your maintenance operations, and your ROI.
- Rhiana Safieh
- HubHead Corp
Two Minute Tips
Checklists, Ignorance and Ineptitude
According to Atul Gawande's excellent book "The Checklist Manifesto", failures only happen because of two things: ignorance or ineptitude.
- Bill Barto
- RELIABILITY CONNECT
Interviews
Wireless Vibration Measurement Systems
Pieter van Camp discusses the benefits of a wireless system to measure vibration.
- Pieter Van Camp
- I-Care Group
Two Minute Tips
Advantages of the Infravision-Application for Your Business
In many cases, electrical safety does not yet receive the attention it deserves. Most factories work with some kind of control, but this does not provide the desired data to ensure a high level inspection. In addition, working methods and the associated output can vary quite a bit per location. Especially if a company has several branches, spread over more than one country.
- Chris Kramer
- I-care
Two Minute Tips
Confused About the Wireless Vibration Sensor Options Available in the Market? Keep in Mind These Key Aspects to Make the Right Choice.
There are various types and brands of wireless vibration sensors in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) market. The increased number of wireless sensor options with different properties have brought complexity to potential customers. . This text aims to present an overview of the wireless vibration sensors and make it easier for the reader to perform market research and ask the right questions to make the right decisions.
- Can Uslu
- PdMechanics
Two Minute Tips
No, You Cannot Borrow My Truck
In 1951, the US Army began publishing PS Magazine. The idea was to publish a magazine about Preventive Maintenance that soldiers would actually want to read. They found an artist named Will Eisner and his company began creating artwork for the magazine. Eisner believed that comics had teaching potential and convinced many talented artists to help him. Each month contained a single-frame comic and an accompanying limerick called "Joe's Dope Sheet". Every month followed the story of Joe, a soldier who ignores preventive maintenance and learns of its importance in the end.
- Bill Barto
- RELIABILITY CONNECT
