For those managing the reliability for large complexes such as refineries and petrochemical plants, protecting the rotating machinery that can number in the hundreds can be a daunting task. Recently a refinery manager asked Emerson's Gary Hawkins about options for...
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Rotating Equipment Bearings and Potholes
Concerning yesterday's post, Avoiding Bearing Failures with the Rule of Tens PeakVue Measurement Methodology, I received an email with a great analogy about pits in ball bearings and potholes. Driving your car on a freshly paved circular track is like a PeakVue...
Essential Asset Monitoring Sessions at Emerson Exchange
If you'll be joining us at the September 30-October 4 Emerson Exchange conference in the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas area, and asset reliability is on your list of things to learn more about, I suggest a few workshops for you. Emerson's Nikki Bishop, a Senior Application...
Transient Analysis Spots Turbomachinery Issues
The other night I was talking to some engineering students before a college basketball game at one of Austin's famous watering holes. They were complaining about all the mind-bending math they were having to endure. Time domain/frequency domain, Fourier analysis--that...
Spotting and Fixing Resonance in Plant Equipment
Alain Pellegrino, a predictive maintenance technician with Emerson's local business partner Laurentide Controls, has a great article in ReliablePlant.com on resonance in plant equipment. The article, How to identify, correct a resonance condition, describes how...
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