The use of Industrial Internet of Things technologies has the potential to radically transform the way organizations approach condition monitoring. There are many new entrants to the market touting their usage of low cost and low power sensing technologies coupled with Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence techniques to provide scalable, cost-effective balance of plant condition…
There are three core tools in the Reliability Professional’s belt: Root cause analysis (RCA), Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), and the P-F curve. In a September 2020 webinar, three Fluke Reliability experts with years of plant floor experience outlined how to use the P-F curve and FMEA together. For example, use both to detect…
Subject-matter expert Craig Haase provides a primer on thermography in maintenance and reliability and how it can powerfully unearth details surrounding your machines’ condition and health. Haase will detail customer scenarios and use cases, highlighting how thermal imaging solutions can record, provide alarm notifications, and monitor assets 24/7 regardless of location. He will also discuss…
With more than 35 years of experience helping educate customers on the finer points of asset condition monitoring and vibration analysis, including 15 years as a Prüftechnik engineer, Colin Pickett has developed an authoritative list of best practices. Now a full-time consultant and trainer, Pickett shared his depth of knowledge at a November 2020 Fluke…
Just like every facility is different, every maintenance operations team faces different challenges in reaching their next equipment reliability goal. One obstacle in particular is more common these days, however. With the current pressures facing plant operations, many teams would like to start using digitalized condition monitoring or connected sensors on the Industrial Internet of…
Adding vibration monitoring data to your eMaint CMMS can give you a better understanding of critical equipment health. But where do you start? First, identify the critical equipment you want to track. There are typically hundreds—if not thousands—of pieces of equipment that the maintenance team maintains, but some machines are more important to the company…
Deploying a condition monitoring program to better track asset health and performance can have the effect of narrowly focusing the team on one or a few types of data. Typically, maintenance and reliability professionals install a sensor such as an accelerometer on machines to measure vibration and relay that data to a vibration analyst to…
By Robert Schmaus In process manufacturing, ensuring minimal interruptions to production is vital to a plant’s overall success. Just about every machine involved in production is geared to work 24/7 without interruption. In theory, at least. In reality, unexpected stoppages happen, and operations teams work hard to keep them as brief and infrequent as possible….
Even if your maintenance and reliability team must work at home during COVID-19, progress on your reliability journey does not have to stop. You can develop a pilot program to roll out condition monitoring when plants are allowed to reopen under new guidelines. A pilot program enables you to test feasibility, refine as necessary, demonstrate…
We’re focusing on the P-F curve again in this blog post, as we did in a previous blog post, because of its application to PRUFTECHNIK machinery alignment and condition-monitoring technologies. We’ll also introduce you to the term “capacity assurance.” Used effectively, PRUFTECHNIK technologies contribute to proactive maintenance strategies that work early in the P-F curve…