Two Minute Tips
Three Into One: Triaxial Vibration Monitoring
This quick tip helps explain why triaxial accelerometers are a useful solution in vibration monitoring where multi-axis vibration measurement is required...
- Chris Hansford
- Hansford Sensors
The First Step to Creating a World-Class Oil Analysis Program
When you start implementing an oil analysis program, you need to decide which equipment in the plant to sample...
- Evan Zabawski
- TestOil
Failure to Start? What’s Next?
If your motor fails to start, what actions do you immediately take? There are a variety of possibilities and questions that come to mind to help you in the right direction ...
- Noah Bethel
- PdMA Corporation
Evaluation of Wound Rotor Motor with Electrical Signature Analysis
The primary difference between an induction motor and a wound rotor motor is that the rotor has windings, slip rings and a variable resistance in order to vary speed or soft start an application...
- Howard Penrose
- MotorDoc LLC
What Are the Limitations of the Crackle Test?
In an effort to communicate the limitations of the crackle test in detecting water contamination...
- Evan Zabawski
- TestOil
Using Oil Color as a Field Test
Have you ever wondered how or why the color of oil changes?
- Paul Dufresne
- Reliability Playbook
If You Had One Tool for Reliability What Would It Be?
The practice of reliability has many tools, processes and methodologies...
- Trent Phillips
- Novelis
One Technology Is Not Enough
There is no doubt that technologies such as vibration analysis...
- Jason Tranter
- Mobius Institute
Criticality Analysis Is Critical
How do you decide which assets should be monitored?
- Jason Tranter
- Mobius Institute