DIPF Curve

There are several areas people use integration tools in a reliability program. The DIPF Curve is one example to get the most value out of your reliability program.

Jeff Hay
RDI Technologies

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Defect Elimination

Reliability Centered Lubrication May Turn Out to be Your Best Investment so Far

Many issues with industrial assets are inextricably connected to lubrication. Too little lubrication, too much or simply using the wrong product.

Wouter Bogaerts
I-Care Group

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Defect Elimination

Condemning a Motor Using MCA™

Experience has shown that 20 to 40 percent of motor systems tested may have some sort of alarm condition. Just because a motor has exceeded the alarm limits in MCA Basic™ or MCA PRO™ it does not necessarily mean the motor will fail or should be stopped immediately. For over 30 years the dedicated staff at ALL-TEST Pro have gathered data and resources to determine when a motor will most likely fail on the most common 3-phase squirrel cage motors.

Mark Koch
ALL-TEST Pro, LLC

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Implementation Strategy

Accelerometer Maximum Cable Length Calculator

When cables between the power supply and the accelerometer are short, less than 100 feet or 30 meters, circuit capacitance usually has no significant effect on the vibration data signals. Long cables may introduce sufficient capacitance into the sensor circuit to allow vibration signal distortion and produce spurious signals.

Peter Eitnier
Wilcoxon Sensing Technologies

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Continuous Improvement

Why You Should Perform a PdM Assessment

If your plant has a long-standing PdM program, I recommend performing an assessment. I encourage people to do self-assessments, but you may at some point wish to bring in an outside professional to perform an overall program assessment. It’s kind of a score card…

John Pucillo
True Reliability

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Condition Monitoring

Visualizing Phase Using Motion Amplification Motion Vectors

One of the great things about Motion Amplification recordings is the fact that all of the data is recorded simultaneously. Because of this, there is a lot of phase information embedded in the data.

Chris Wills
RDI Technologies

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Implementation Strategy

Reliability Centered Lubrication May Turn Out to be Your Best Investment So Far

Many issues with industrial assets are inextricably connected to lubrication. Too little lubrication, too much or simply using the wrong product. To assess these problems and to optimize the reliability of assets, I-care has its Reliability Centered Lubrication program.