Monitor And Detect Issues In Your Machinery With Vibration Analysis
Machinery can often experience high vibration patterns when being used regularly. By implementing vibration analysis into your maintenance regime, you can spot a variety of faults early on.
What is Vibration Analysis?
Vibration analysis monitors the levels and different patterns of vibration given off by your machinery, so you can spot any abnormalities in your equipment so you know when or if repairs need to be carried out.
How does Vibration Analysis Work?
Vibration analysis measures the vibrations given off by equipment and then analyses the frequency, as well as the strength of each vibration as they occur.
This vibration data can be gathered in two different ways:
By placing a magnet with a vibration sensor on a piece of equipment each time you wish to take a measurement.
Using and installing a vibration sensor on your equipment, allowing data to be collected via a wired or wireless connection.
What can vibration analysis help detect?
Once data has been gathered, the findings are analysed by trained engineers to help determine the health of your machinery and identify a high number of faults that would be harder or nearly impossible to locate with the naked eye.
By using vibration analysis in your maintenance routine you will be able to detect the following:
Lubrication Issues
Misalignment
Bearing Faults
Motor Problems
Gearbox Failures
Cavitation in Pumps
Critical Speeds
Mechanical Looseness
Along with much, much more.
How does Continuous Vibration Analysis Work?
Having an appropriate vibration monitoring programme running continuously to help monitor your equipment in real-time and have data available whenever you need it by accessing it through a smartphone, tablet or computer.
Keep Track of Critical Assets –
Small changes in vibration levels can be picked up by equipment such as the FLIR SV87-KIT meaning you will be notified about faults in your equipment as soon as they occur, so you can spot signs of failure early on.
Track Difficult-to-Reach Equipment –
Continuous vibration monitoring allows you to keep track of assets in hard-to-reach areas so you can keep an eye on even the most hidden equipment
Monitor Vulnerable Equipment –
We know you may sometimes require your equipment to run continuously, so finding time to carry out repairs on equipment can be difficult. With continuous monitoring capabilities, you can choose the perfect time to carry out repairs so you don’t have to run into any unplanned downtime.
Why Should You Invest in Vibration Analysis?
Save money on repairs and production costs.
Conveniently schedule repairs of equipment.
Reduce the chance of downtime occurring.
Decrease the frequency of repairs.
Receive realtime notifications on the health of your equipment.
Find signs of failure early on.
To find out more about vibration analysis and how we here at Thermascan can help create a programme that suits your maintenance schedule get in touch today via phone or email