In today’s industrial environment, most turbomachinery has permanently installed machinery protection systems that incorporate vibration monitoring instrumentation. These systems typically utilize proximity probes to monitor both radial and thrust events (i.e., relative vibration measurements), case mounted seismic vibration transducers (i.e., absolute vibration measurements) and a shaft speed/phase reference measurement. By incorporating the preexisting machinery protection systems’ available measurement types into a routine vibration analysis program, technicians can determine specific fault types and machine condition based on signal amplitudes, frequency content and phase relationships between machine components. Additionally, these measurements can be acquired for machine commissioning purposes after mechanical repairs/inspections and utilized for machinery diagnostics with the use of multi-channel transient vibration analysis techniques.
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Reliabilityweb.com announced the company’s latest virtual conference titled The Internet of Vibration Analysis and Asset Health Virtual Conference. The free online event will be held monthly at https://reliabilityweb.com beginning May 6 from 11:00 am to 11:30 am Eastern Time (USA).
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Aiming to ease stress in the lives of over one billion people who use elevators each day—a number expected to rise as urban populations increase by three billion in the next three decades—ThyssenKrupp is launching its Microsoft Azure IoT-enabled MAX to increase transport capacities in buildings. With the groundbreaking MAX installed worldwide, time savings for elevator passengers could be equivalent to 108 centuries of new availability in each year of operation.
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EVERETT, WA -- April 7, 2016 -- Thermal imagers are invaluable to help quickly troubleshoot electrical equipment, panels, and transformers but electricians and maintenance technicians often don’t have access to one when they need it. Fluke announces the 279 FC TRMS Thermal Multimeter, the first test tool to integrate a full-featured true RMS (TRMS) digital multimeter (DMM) with a thermal camera in one device to speed troubleshooting.
Southampton, UK -- April 8, 2016 -- Senseye welcomes Parvalux, Europe’s leading supplier of geared motor solutions to its PROGNOSYS condition monitoring and prognostics pilot programme.
Incorrect oil level is one of the most common causes of bearing failures in critical ANSI or API pumps. Oil level can be easily monitored using an oil sight glass, but standard flat sight glasses
Westbury, NY — Fugitive emissions cause production slowdowns, require expensive repairs and can even lead to environmental contamination. But what if you could hear the problem before you could see it?
Wood Group has acquired SVT Engineering Consultants (SVT) based in Australia. This acquisition marks a significant step for Wood Group in providing a global vibration, dynamics and noise (VDN) engineering service line.
PHILADELPHIA -- April 1, 2016 -- Through the merger of its North American operations in Canada and USA, PRUFTECHNIK further establishes its presence on the North American territory. With the new organization, the makers of OPTALIGN and ROTALIGN kick-start the direct distribution of their products in the USA.
ST. LOUIS ⎯ The Electrical Apparatus Service Association (EASA) will hold its Annual Convention and Exposition from June 12 - 14, 2016 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The theme for the 2016 Convention is “E3: Educate – Experience - Engage”
San Francisco, March 28, 2016 - Tech Mahindra, a specialist in digital transformation, consulting and business re-engineering, today announced its participation as a member of the new GE Digital Alliance Program that is dedicated to growing the digital industrial ecosystem.
Hansford Sensors, the leading global manufacturer of high performance industrial accelerometers, will be continuing its North American program of business development at Reliable Plant 2016. The company will be using the show to announce its newly formed US sales partner, Hansford Sensors USA, and to launch a number of exciting new products, designed to help plant and maintenance engineers improve the accuracy and reliability of vibration and condition monitoring systems.
Uptime Magazine congratulates the following outstanding programs for their commitment to and execution of high quality Predictive Maintenance and Condition Monitoring Programs.
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PLAINVIEW, N.Y. & WILMINGTON, Mass. -- March 23, 2016 -- Veeco Instruments Inc. (NASDAQ: VECO) announced today that it sold its first Predictive Analytics solution to a major data storage customer. Incorporating Rudolph Technologies, Inc.’s (NYSE: RTEC) proven fault detection and predictive maintenance software, the new platform delivers increased Veeco system productivity for maximum efficiency resulting in reduced maintenance costs.
The development of high performance perfluoropolyether (PFPE) lubricants dates back a few decades. These developments were both necessitated and accelerated by aerospace and aviation markets where lubrication at the extremes of low and high temperatures was far more important than it would be in the average industrial environment. Even beyond aviation and aerospace, PFPEs have served admirably whenever the higher initial cost was easily overcome by the far more important need to consistently meet and even exceed performance expectations.