Fluke 831 Laser Shaft Alignment
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The Importance of Precision Shaft Alignment

Discussing the real return on investment of properly aligning rotating equipment. As there is a renewed focus on reliability and vibration monitoring, I focus on a root cause. An often-quoted comment is “…why align a machine when it is fitted with a flexible coupling designed to accommodate misalignment?” I will talk about why this one…

Figure 2. Four procedural techniques can be logically mapped to known failure modes. Once causation has been identified, these techniques direct which failure-eliminating or mitigating corrective activities make the most sense, such as scheduled discard and/or planned restoration.
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Diagnostic Engine: Empowering Data Analytics

Ensuring the success of your connected reliability program is essential for the management team. Many companies today are facing vibration data overload, where the excessive amount of vibration data exceeds analytic capacity in today’s wireless sensor world Azima DLI manages over 500,000 machine tests per year and uses algorithms, metrics, and processes to sustain those…

MRO
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How to Leverage AI to Help Define Spare Parts Criticality Methodology

Reliability and Operations teams have always struggled with a repeatable process for defining criticality for maintenance spare parts management. It is often too easy to make everything critical and often entails a binary method of “yes/no” or “true/false.” Most criticality review processes are static (one and done) and are not revisited nor adjusted with changing…

Confidence Rating – Trusting Your Repair Action Recommendations

Confidence Rating – Trusting Your Repair Action Recommendations

This webinar will discuss automation in vibration analysis and how to obtain a Confidence Rating in the results to understand trust and best manage the next steps. Speaker:Michael DeMaria, Product Manager for Azima DLI, a Fluke Reliability Company Michael is the Product Manager for Azima DLI, managing the hardware platforms and integrations, diagnostic software and…

How machine alignment impacts maintenance strategies

How machine alignment impacts maintenance strategies

Much of the work tied to machine alignment is standardized. But what happens after the alignment? There aren’t formal standards for what comes next, yet the strategies you adopt after alignment can help extend equipment lifespan. The presenters for Fluke Reliability’s Sept. 18 webinar titled “What happens after the alignment” are experts in asset maintenance…

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Why we can’t proceduralize everything

Unwanted errors & surprises are serious threats to reliability in any high-hazard industry. To address them, many leaders apply a mechanistic approach. They install controls, write procedures, and enforce compliance. But these mechanistic strategies often backfire in adaptive, human-based systems. Learn the difference between Mechanistic and Adaptive Systems See why we can’t “proceduralize everything” in…

BPW: What happens after the alignment
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What happens after the alignment?

Don’t be left in the dark. Alignment processes should include post monitoring to protect the asset and confirm a proper alignment. Elongate the life of your machines with these tips, tricks and technologies from Fluke Reliability alignment experts, Mike Ciocys, Technical Service & Support Manager and Chelsea Fiegel, Service Sales Leader. During this session, we…

The Daily Benefits of a Continuous Improvement Plan
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The Daily Benefits of a Continuous Improvement Plan

It’s one thing to say you’re going to do something to improve continuously every day, like exercising, is one thing. Following through is another. It takes discipline. In an Accelix best practices webinar called The Exponential Power of Daily Continuous Improvement, Calvin Williams, founder and CEO of Impruver, explores the power of daily improvement and…

How to Apply Ultrasound Technology to Extend Bearing Life
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How to Apply Ultrasound Technology to Extend Bearing Life

Under lubricating or overlubricating a bearing can destroy it and bring production to a halt. Although there’s always going to be a certain amount of friction, maintaining just the right quantity of lubrication will keep it at an acceptable level.  In his July 2021 Accelix best practices webinar, Blair Fraser, global director of IIoT Solutions…