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  • Asset Strategy

Vibration Data Meets Process Control Data

Industrial IoT or Industry 4.0 presents a great opportunity for manufacturing companies to improve their bottom line. A big priority for most Fortune 1000 industrial companies today is digitization. But what does it exactly mean to go digital and how does a company go about making it happen...

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extend fin fan belt lives
  • Condition Monitoring

How to Extend Fin Fan Belt Lives

Fin fans coolers are necessary equipment in every oil and gas facility. Fin fans are heat exchangers, usually utilized to cool equipment lube oil or to reduce product temperature. If the fin fans fail, lube oil temperature will increase, which might trip the equipment..

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AVT Reliability FA-20006
  • Condition Monitoring

2020 FA-20006 AVT Reliability – Critical Assets Feature

Most companies recognise that condition based maintenance can help keep critical assets in effective functional condition. But is it time to re-evaluate precisely which of your assets are the most critical, particularly in this difficult time, asks Frederic Thomas of AVT Reliability®.

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reliability engineering: back to basics
  • Condition Monitoring

Reliability Engineering: Back to Basics

Reliability is a subordinate topic to industrial and manufacturing engineering that has been branching out into it’s own more and more the past few decades including an increase in the number of reliability engineer titles that are handed out within organizations..

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the relationship between speed and vibration
  • Condition Monitoring

The Relationship Between Speed and Vibration

If you measure with an online system and have lots of data, it is very easy to see if there is a relationship between the speed of the machine and it's vibration. High vibration can lead to trouble..

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Machine Health Basics for the OEM design engineer
  • Continuous Improvement

Machine Health Basics for the OEM Design Engineer

Analyzing machine vibration as a means of monitoring healthy operation and diagnosis of emerging problems is a relatively mature specialization, long practiced on turbines and motor-pump trains. Condition Monitoring for the factory today is generally implemented by a skilled practitioner equipped with a handheld data-logger, collecting and processing signals from a tethered vibration sensor during a periodically scheduled, route-based maintenance program.

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Industry 4.0
  • Continuous Improvement

Embrace Industry 4.0 to Improve Reliability

Step changes in condition based monitoring technology mean unlocking the benefits of Industry 4.0 to achieve operator driven reliability are now a reality. Oliver Pogmore, of plant reliability specialists AVT Reliability®, explains how digital technology can overcome barriers such as cost and staffing levels to deliver a truly proactive maintenance programme.2

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  • Asset Strategy

A Practical Guide to Setting up IIoT-Based Predictive Maintenance

As initial hype around Internet of Things (IoT) in the consumer market fades, focus and emphasis has now shifted to Industrial IoT, in particular Predictive Maintenance. Part of the excitement in Industrial IoT stems from the fact that IoT technology can provide quantifiable benefits and savings to plants...

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  • Asset Strategy

Asset Knowledge Visualizations: A Vehicle for Maximizing the Business Value of Intelligent Asset Management (IAM) Solutions

In recent years the abundance of digital data about enterprise assets enables the development, deployment and operation of data-driven solutions for managing assets in intelligent ways. The latter result in improved reliability, as well as minimization of failures and costs..

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