PdM: Monitoring Rotating Assets? How to use Vibration Sensors
Announcement posted by John Morris Group 23 Jun 2015
The unexpected breakdown of rotating machinery is the single largest cause of emergency downtime. To prevent this, maintenance technicians practice predictive maintenance (PdM) using sensors for vibration monitoring. The key elements of any PdM program are:
- To ensure machine health
- To ensure that rotating assets adequately perform their intended function
- To prevent unexpected downtime or catastrophic failure
However it's not often clear exactly how to successfully launch a PdM program using vibration sensors This information is intended for managers and supervisors who'll learn:
- Benefits, cost, and commitments required to start a PdM program
- How to determine if a PdM program will benefit their company
Introduction
Much of the content, case histories, and figures for this paper were supplied by the author’s colleagues at the Vibration Institute. The paper also encompasses David A. Corelli’s 40 plus years of experience in vibration analysis, condition monitoring, and personal experience in what makes programs successful or fail. This paper is intended as an overview for managers and supervisors that would like to know more about the benefits, cost, and commitments required for starting a predictive maintenance program; how to determine if such a program will benefit their company; and if so, how to get started.
Vibration Institute: The Vibration Institute (USA) is a not-‐for-‐profit professional organisation that is “Dedicated to the dissemination of practical information on evaluating machinery behaviour”. It provides training and certification in the field of vibration analysis and condition monitoring of rotating machinery and works with both ANSI and ISO committees in the development of pertinent standards in these areas.
This information is broken into four key parts:
This literature is filled with information on Reliability Methods such as Predictive, Preventive, Proactive Maintenance, Condition Monitoring, Asset Management and Reliability Centered Maintenance and it is often difficult to distinguish where one ends and the other begins as it relates to machinery health and availability. As it turns out, the author believes they have a lot of overlap. In the end, they all imply doing what is necessary to ensure that a machine keeps on working, adequately performing its intended function, and without experiencing unexpected downtime or catastrophic failure.
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