International Maintenance Conference: The Speed of Reliability

International Maintenance Conference 2025: The Speed of Reliability

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How to Choose Your Wireless Vibration System: Surveillance vs. Analysis and Diagnostic

How to Choose Your Wireless Vibration System: Surveillance vs. Analysis and Diagnostic

Wireless vibration systems are becoming very popular in our industry. It seems that a new wireless offering is on the the market every month. Which one is the right technology? How do I decide?

What Is Vibration? How Is It Evaluated? Why Is It Important to the Reliability of Mechanical Equip

What Is Vibration? How Is It Evaluated? Why Is It Important to the Reliability of Mechanical Equip

IMC-2018 Learning Zone 46:42

by Robert Sayer, Vibration Institute

This session is designed to introduce basic vibration concepts to the reliability community. 

What is Vibration? How is it Evaluated? Why is it Important to the Reliability of Mechanical Equipment?

What is Vibration? How is it Evaluated? Why is it Important to the Reliability of Mechanical Equipment?

IMC-2018 LearningZone

by Robert Sayer, Vibration Institute

This session is designed to introduce basic vibration concepts to the reliability community. 

The Evolution of the Rotating Equipment Trip Analysis Program in Abqaiq Plants

The Evolution of the Rotating Equipment Trip Analysis Program in Abqaiq Plants

We will show case the history of our trip analysis program and the metrics used to help assess the performance of these equipment from a trip prospective

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Finding the Keys to Opening the Machinery Reliability Treasure Chest

Finding the Keys to Opening the Machinery Reliability Treasure Chest

Is your equipment operating smoothly, reliably (10+ years MTBF) and not impacting the O&M budget with unplanned failures? If the answer is yes, then great you've found the keys to reliability success! If not, this presentation will provide information on the use of condition monitoring and other tools to help understand and create machinery reliability

Precision Alignment Should Not be an Obstacle Course

Precision Alignment Should Not be an Obstacle Course

In this course we will discuss some of the obstacles they will encounter and how to tackle them. This will help bring awareness to provide the resources for the millwright to cross the finish line efficiently thus improving the maintainability and performance of the machines. 

From Mentoring to Monetizing: The 4 Conversations You Need to Have for an Effective ACM Program

From Mentoring to Monetizing: The 4 Conversations You Need to Have for an Effective ACM Program

We will discuss the importance of building leadership capital and how we can improve our PdM Program by knowing how and when to cash it in. From there we will talk through the importance of understanding how expectations and perspective play a role in gaining widespread participation.

The State of lloT from a Vibration Analysts Perspective

The State of lloT from a Vibration Analysts Perspective

In a quickly changing world, we don't need platitudes from figureheads; we really need perspectives from experts in the field. Join us for a discussion of IIoT, Artificial Intelligence and the intermingling of vibration analysis.

Predictive Maintenance: The Combination of Techniques and Technologies Balancing Value and Cost

Predictive Maintenance: The Combination of Techniques and Technologies Balancing Value and Cost

Matthew Fourie will be bringing some insight into what combination of condition monitoring techniques and technology to consider to balance value vs cost aligning to your company strategy and situation. Don't miss this opportunity to learn from an industry leader in the area of packaging for the digital world.

Is Your Vibration Program Old or Maturing?

Is Your Vibration Program Old or Maturing?

The goal of this presentation is to help you take a look at your program as it stands today and review how it got there. Decide where you want to go or if it is where it needs to be today to meet your requirement, or what you need to do to get where you want to be.

Ultrasound 101 for Water and Waste Water Industries

Ultrasound 101 for Water and Waste Water Industries

This presentation introduces the basics of ultrasound testing with a specific focus for water industries. An overview of key applications is supported with real-world examples from Saul Cizek, an industry expert owning many decades of field experience. This presentation accentuates the urgency for any industry lagging the trend to get with the times.

How to Use Mechanical Integrity Inspections

How to Use Mechanical Integrity Inspections

This article shows how manufacturing professionals can work smoothly with a third-party mechanical inspection provider and use inspection results to build greater efficiency in their operations.

Sustaining Life Span of Rotating Equipment in Plants

Sustaining Life Span of Rotating Equipment in Plants

You are 17 times more likely to introduce defects during equipment start-up than during normal equipment operation. Additionally, over 90 percent of rotating equipment has defects at start-up that result in premature equipment failures. What’s causing these start-up defects?

Utilizing Advanced Vibration Analysis Techniques for Major Cost Avoidance

Utilizing Advanced Vibration Analysis Techniques for Major Cost Avoidance

This presentation will cover actual real-life case studies from the cement, pulp & paper and mining industries.

Electric Motor Testing PdM and Troubleshooting Case Studies

Electric Motor Testing PdM and Troubleshooting Case Studies

This presentation focuses on electrical failures and standards-based testing methods which can reveal problems long before they affect the motors's operation.

Barrick Gold Turns to Industrial IoT to Maximize Uptime of Its Critical Assets

Barrick Gold Turns to Industrial IoT to Maximize Uptime of Its Critical Assets

Barrick Gold's Cortez Process Division (hereafter‚ Cortez) has recently positioned themselves as a leader in predictive maintenance and digital transformation. Earlier this year, Cortez implemented the Asset Reliability & Optimization (ARO) System from Petasense to improve their asset reliability and overall uptime.

Centrifuge Motor Trips

Centrifuge Motor Trips

The Grifols PdM group uses a variety of technologies to improve reliability in motor overload.

Reliable Electric Motors: Do They Actually Exist?

Reliable Electric Motors: Do They Actually Exist?

Reliability and electric motors do not always seem to go hand-in-hand. There is electrical reliability and mechanical reliability, but what about electro-mechanical reliability? This can exist, and it does for many plants across the country! 

Implementing Best Practices for Motor Greasing

Implementing Best Practices for Motor Greasing

This presentation will cover best practices for greasing motor bearings and how to successfully implement them. The presentation is applicable to those wanting to start a motor greasing program because it will help create a roadmap to accelerate implementation and ensure that best practices are followed from the start.

A Year of Machine Learning: What the Human Learned

A Year of Machine Learning: What the Human Learned

Applying machine learning or artificial intelligence isn't as simple as modeling data and deploying the resulting model. It involves changing how people do their work.