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,...
Drew Mackley
Diagnostics to Detect Rotating Machinery Misalignment
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...
Monitoring Turbomachinery Sleeve Bearings
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...
Improving Safety and Efficiency in Route-Based Maintenance
When it comes to manually collecting vibration data on rotating equipment in your facility, getting it safely and efficiently is important—especially if there is a large number of assets. In this 3:54 YouTube video, CSI 2140 Speed Test, Emerson's Mark Granger and Drew...
Connecting Remote Reliability Experts with Plant Maintenance Technicians
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...
How Durable is Your Portable Vibration Analyzer?
In a post last summer, Portable Vibration Analyzer-Human Centered Design Style, we highlighted the latest advancements in handheld vibration analyzers. Since that time, Emerson’s Drew Mackley has been showing the device to reliability professionals around the...
Users Discussing Portable Vibration Analyzer Experiences Webinar Series
If you're a maintenance professional or have responsibility for the reliability of your plant assets, I want to share that the Asset Optimization team is conducting a series of "Ask the Expert" webinars on the CSI 2140 vibration analyzer. The neat part is that these...
Listening In For Machinery Equipment Issues
In the same way an experienced mechanic can identify car troubles by listening to it when it's running, a plant maintenance professional often listens to rotating equipment to identify problems. I caught up with Emerson's Drew Mackley, a member of the Machinery Health...
Portable Vibration Analyzer-Human Centered Design Style
You may have seen the news of a next generation of portable vibration analyzer, the CSI 2140 Machinery Health Analyzer. Portable vibration analyzers are great for providing advance warning of machinery failures as part of a predictive maintenance program. The CSI 2140...
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