Breaking the Barriers to Affordable Vibration Analysis
Predictive maintenance (PdM) is a major key for improving plant reliability and productivity. Of all the technologies used in PdM, one of the most important — if not the most important — is vibration analysis. This is something “everybody knows.” In spite of this, a survey published by Plant Services magazine in January 2007 showed less than half of the plants polled have an effective PdM program, as evidenced by the fact that they have a self-confessed unacceptable breakdown rate.
Two Barriers
Our experience in working with hundreds of people involved in plant maintenance and reliability shows there are two major barriers to using vibration analysis: Cost of equipment and lack of vibration expertise. These barriers boil down to money and time. How this boils down in the case of equipment expense is obvious. Only slightly less obvious is the observation that lack of in-house expertise can usually be traced to a lack of budget for a vibration analyst or to the lack of both the budget and of the time to train one. This applies to large and small companies alike.
This applies to three major categories of manufacturing facility . . .
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