The Industrial Internet of Things is meant to be a good thing. Capturing large swaths of data and sifting through them to obtain real insights into machinery performance and other key metrics. There are two issues at hand in terms of maintenance: the amount of data to be processed and the ability to analyze it […]
Pumps, turbines and other industrial machinery are usually encased in housings made from an aluminum or steel. This helps reduce the impact of abrasion, harsh chemical solvents and water or dust contamination. Trying to analyze whether or not there are issues with the components inside rarely makes sense to do visibly precisely because disassembly is […]
Stricter rotor balancing standards are one of the biggest issues that we have been addressing for clients for the last couple of decades has been improperly balanced rotors. We have armed them with the proper balancing standards that they demand every one of their rotating assemblies (fans, pumps, motors, compressors, couplings, sheaves ) are balanced […]
Initial Machinery Inspection prior to any start up it is important to validate/identify simple items such as loose bolting, cracked welds, improperly greased bearings, clearances issues between rotors and housings, pipe strain, the rotor statics indicating an unbalance condition, sheave and coupling alignment issues and other simple checks. We are only human so it is […]
Monitoring a bearing’s temperature can identify a bearing problem as well as some more advanced technologies.