The Reliability Support Team at the Eastern Processing Facility located at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL, won Uptime Magazine’s Best Design for Reliability Program award. During the design phase of their program, the team was challenged with the implementation of Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) principles and Precision and Predictive techniques from construction through commissioning. These [...]

Average – In vibration analysis, an average usually refers to the process whereby the vibration software will, after converting waveforms into spectrums via FFT, add the resultant spectrums together and then divide by the number of spectrums added together. The result is an “averaged spectrum”. Band – A band is simply a range of frequencies [...]

Vibration analysis is the best all-around technology for diagnosing and predicting problems in rotating machinery. Over the years I have seen time and time again where adopters of this technology have saved themselves and their companies countless man hours and thousands of dollars by getting to the root cause of a problem early on. By [...]

Setting the proper LOR is essential to be able to separate closely spaced defect frequencies.  An example would be a pump with 5 vanes that could generate a “Vane Pass” frequency equal to the number of vanes, or 5 times rotational speed; if the impeller end of the pump had an SKF 7301BEP bearing, it [...]

Our training partners at Pioneer Engineering have created a few tips your organization can implement  aimed at cutting costs without sacrificing quality and productivity. Tip #1: Establish a Reliability Centered Maintenance Program A well established Reliability Centered Maintenance Program helps identify correct maintenance tasks to increase the reliability of the assets and cut costs by [...]

PRUEFTECHNIK Canada Service Team recently conducted a balancing job for 5 exhaust and circulation fans using the VIBXPERT II data collector and analyzer. We are glad to share the details and successful outcome of  this job.   Unbalance is the most common cause of increased levels of vibrations. For several years, the vibration behavior of the fans had been [...]