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The Importance of Using Machine Condition Monitoring

By Judy G. Abdullah


Potential mechanical failure can be avoided by using a procedure called machine condition monitoring, which is the process of finding any major changes that can lead to machine failure. A primary attribute of this is predictive maintenance. Machine condition monitoring allows scheduled maintenance to occur in order to avoid failure way before it even takes place. Temperature vibration behavior that can be deviated from the reference value must occur in order to show any major changes in machinery.

Predictive maintenance cannot be used in order to guess future failure. Defect free machines are less at risk than machines that already have current defects. In order to calculate the degradation of a mechanical system, CM systems are used once the failure has been spotted and located. Letting the machine to fail will end the end cost more than intervening early in the failure course. The distinct benefit of machine condition monitoring is that the actual subsequent heat dissipation and load can be found way before repeated failures occur, thus not shorting the overall lifespan of a machine. Machines that can be checked like stationary plant machinery or rotating machinery can use this technique, such as heat exchangers and boilers.

A typical method for testing rotating machines for vibration is called vibration analysis. The machine can take measurements that bear casings with seismic electric transducers to analyze casing vibrations, which is a major component to most machinery. Rotating shafts of eddy-current transducers can be directly tested in order to measure the radial and axial vibration in the shaft. How severe the situation is can be determined by historical aspects of the machine such as startups and shutdowns in order to make a valid assessment to the standards of load changes and the level of vibration.

Visual examinations are oftentimes a form of any underlying aspect to machine condition monitoring even though only if measured and observed by a specific set of guidelines will this be true. At the time of observation, the condition of the machine and the results from the testing must be compared to previous and future tests in order for this test and inspection to be thought of as valid.

Visually observing with machine condition monitoring is not only looking for seepage and cracks on and around the pipe work of a machine. Unless accepted parameters exist to support the condition tested by the inspection, a relative comparison needs to be made against other inspections. When an inspection is performed due to existing or recent inspections, where the machine condition-monitoring test wants the outcomes to be comparative with other data and reports previously gathered as acceptable, condition assessment occurs.




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