A key component of reliable operations is the health of the rotating machinery within a process manufacturing or production process. Monitoring the vibration levels on this machinery is an important component in an effective reliability-centered maintenance program. I...
Last week we highlighted a rotating machinery laser shaft alignment system. Here is Emerson's Robert Skeirik in a series of YouTube videos that shows the components and how it works. The videos are designed for experts to show how to demonstrate the components. Since...
Improving the reliability of your production assets requires a combination of people, processes and tools. For maintenance technician to diagnose issues during rounds portal machinery health analyzers play an important. We've shared how in posts such as Running Bump...
Technology is great for solving problems, especially for complex problems when it's couple with expertise. But in many cases, the technology and the expertise is separated geographically. Thankfully communications technologies continue to advance to bridge the...
Even non-critical pumps in your process can cause spills, vapor clouds, fires and worse. Most of these failure incidents provide warning well in time to solve the problem—if feedback mechanisms are in place for your operators and maintenance personnel. In tce, the...
Sometimes your ears can identify problems with rotating machinery before investigate any further. In this 5:11 YouTube video, Audio with Parameter Alarms and Trends, Emerson's Mark Granger shows how, in addition to providing immediate colored parameter alarms bar...
Operating rotating equipment at resonant frequencies can damage or destroy the equipment and create dangerous situations for nearby personnel. Understanding where these frequencies may exist is critical to safe and reliable operations. In this 4:51 YouTube video,...
Let's continue our route-based maintenance video series with a look at diagnostics to detect misalignment issues on rotating machinery. In this 5:53 YouTube video, Misalignment Detection: Cross Channel Phase and Fault Frequencies, Emerson's Drew Mackley demonstrates...
Let's end this U.S. 4th of July Independence day holiday-shortened workweek with a 3:27 YouTube video on Sleeve Bearing Monitoring with Dual Orbits. Emerson's Drew Mackley explains how this type of bearing is mostly found in turbomachinery and involves displacement...
When performing vibration measurements during route-based maintenance activities, different vibration measurements uncover different issues with plant machinery. In this 4:20 YouTube video, PeakVue Analysis, Emerson's Mark Granger demonstrates some of these...
Let's end this very busy week with a video which may be of interest if reliability and the management of plant assets falls within your set of responsibilities. In this 3:45 YouTube video, Impact Analysis with PeakVue and Autocorrelation, Emerson's Mark Granger...
It's been a whirlwind two weeks circling the globe—first last week in Stuttgart, Germany for the Emerson Exchange conference and then this week at our office in Manila, the Philippines. I'm back now in Austin blogging and catching up. Let's close the week with a short...
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