Condition
Monitoring (CM) or Condition Based Maintenance (CBM)
Modern industrial machinery is an important production asset and
the pressure to extract maximum profits from the minimum investment
in plant and equipment means machinery is operated increasingly
at the limits of its intended design duty. Mechanical faults due
to fatigue, stress, wear or incorrect operation do cause these machines
to break down unexpectedly. The consequential losses resulting from
this are not just for repairing the machine and lost production,
but can also include personal injury, damage to the environment
and secondary damage to other machines.
It is therefore crucial to minimize the risk of any machinery failure
by the use of advanced technologies ie Condition Monitoring (or
Condition Based Maintenance) in order to determine condition of
plant machinery enabling failure prediction and prevention or Predictive
Maintenance
Condition Monitoring (or Condition Based Maintenance) can ensure
maximum Return on Investment (ROI) at your plant by:
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Improvement of Machinery Reliability through
the prediction (and prevention) of equipment failure
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Minimising downtime through the planning and
scheduling of repairs.
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Maximising component life by eradicating the
conditions that reduce equipment life (e.g. out of balance,
misalignment, poor lubrication etc.)
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Maximising equipment performance and throughput
The
following Condition Monitoring (or Condition Based Maintenance)
tools are available through Cepstra (UK) Ltd:
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Vibration Monitoring & Analysis
— the analysis of the unique patterns of vibration created
by specific components of a rotating piece of equipment.
- Temperature
Monitoring & Analysis — identification of
a rise in the temperature of machinery that could result from
problems such as lack of lubrication, bearing wear, poor electrical
connections, etc.
- Performance
and Process Monitoring & Analysis – the comparison
of machinery operating parameters such as flow, load, pressure,
speed, etc to the dynamic characteristics of the machinery such
as vibration and motor current signature.
- Dynamic
Balancing – the use of vibration measurements
to reduce the mechanical imbalance of a rotating piece of equipment.
- Laser
Alignment – the use of laser measurements to
reduce the mechanical vibrations caused by misalignment of shafts
or pulleys on a rotating piece of equipment.
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