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Condition Monitoring and MEMS Accelerometers - What You Need to Know

Many highly integrated and easy to deploy condition monitoring products are appearing on the market that employ a micro electromechanical system (MEMS) accelerometer as the core sensor. These economical products help to reduce the overall cost of deployment and ownership, and in the process, expand the universe of facilities and equipment that can benefit from a condition monitoring program.

Asset Condition Management

Remote Monitoring and Diagnostics: Manufacturing’s Version of the Armchair Quarterback

In any industrial environment, and particularly those with geographically distributed and remote assets and operations, reliable monitoring can be a challenge. Catastrophic equipment failure can occur without warning and, in some cases, go for long amounts of time without being noticed. The oil and gas industry, among other industries, was quick to recognize the benefits of remote monitoring and diagnostics (RM&D), as oil and gas companies have very expensive equipment deployed in disparate locations around the world. These difficult operating conditions make topflight monitoring and diagnostics systems crucial to ensuring that workflow operations can continue without interruption.

Asset Condition Management

Asset and Maintenance Managers: Key Decision Makers

Asset and maintenance management are becoming increasingly complex tasks. Those responsible must make decisions about the condition of equipment and machinery that can have an impact on the operation of the entire plant. So, it is not at all surprising that they are constantly trying to improve their asset management and maintenance strategies. There are numerous methods and tools available to help companies and managers make decisions regarding their maintenance concepts. Nowadays, it is possible to interpret data to allow foresight into the future condition of the assets. And it is not only about optimizing maintenance management technology. Rather, the entire decision-making process of asset management and the maintenance staff is under scrutiny.

Asset Condition Management

Can’t We All Just Get Along? Melding the Worlds of Production and Reliability

“Can’t we all just get along?” As the fifth child of eight, I remember my mother saying that quite often. Having four older brothers, it really never happened where we just all simply got along.

Now as an asset reliability educator, I travel around the country providing in-plant training for operators and maintenance personnel. During these training sessions, often times I am reminded by the folks who spend the majority of their day inside these American manufacturing facilities, that I must be living in a different world.

“Everything you are saying about asset reliability sounds great, but we are charged with getting product out the door. We don’t have time to do all the best practice things you are talking about.”

I completely understand this sentiment. I really do. However, we must find a way to meld our two worlds.

Asset Condition Management

Evaluation of Medium and High Voltage Machines with Motor Circuit Analysis

Low and high voltage motor circuit analysis (MCA) methods have existed since the 1950s, with low voltage MCA technology becoming commercially viable in the 1980s. Since the mid-1980s, MCA technologies have become more prevalent as part of predictive maintenance and motor diagnostics programs across all industries. While the descriptions of these technologies are high and low voltage, they describe the types of outputs from the instruments, not the types of electric machines tested. This article explains the concurrent application of low and high voltage MCA on 4160 volt induction machines through 13.8 kV synchronous motors.

Asset Condition Management

The New Era of Predictive Maintenance: Affordable and Accessible

Modern Predictive Maintenance (PdM) has come a long way in recent years, with ease of use and installation both having increased significantly, while cost has similarly decreased. Conventional PdM was an expensive and time consuming technology and, because of this, it was reserved for only the most critical facilities. The problem with this is that less costly equipment, though seemingly peripheral, can be just as essential to continuing operations, and it is instead relegated to a preventive maintenance (PM) schedule.

Asset Condition Management

VibePro-EX and Bluetooth Accelerometer Analyzes Vibration on an iPad

03 May 2016 - GTI Predictive Technology, Inc., creators of the VibePro iPad Data Collector, have released VibePro-EX, a groundbreaking explosion proof vibration analysis package for iPad. The package includes a wireless Bluetooth accelerometer, a specially certified explosion proof iPad case meeting all hazardous compliance standards, and a new version of GTI's vibration analysis software, VibePro.

asset condition management

Condition Monitoring and MEMS Accelerometers - What You Need to Know

Remote Monitoring and Diagnostics: Manufacturing’s Version of the Armchair Quarterback

Asset and Maintenance Managers: Key Decision Makers

Can’t We All Just Get Along? Melding the Worlds of Production and Reliability

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Evaluation of Medium and High Voltage Machines with Motor Circuit Analysis

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The New Era of Predictive Maintenance: Affordable and Accessible

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