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Utilizing Ultrasound in Condition Monitoring

Understanding the various applications of ultrasound

When a maintenance person hears the word ultrasound, they immediately think of air leaks.  While ultrasound is good at finding leaks involving compressed gases (air, steam, nitrogen, CO2, etc.), it can do much more.   If you look at a typical P-F curve, you will that ultrasound enables organizations to find defects further up the curve, even more so than vibration analysis.   How many maintenance staff knows that? Combine the ease of use, cost effective and the early detection ability […]

By |2019-04-19T15:49:28-04:00August 7th, 2017|Equipment Strategy, Ultrasound|1 Comment

Listening to Assets: Understanding Ultrasound

What Is Ultrasound And How Can It Help With Your Condition Monitoring Program

Imagine being able to listen to assets.  I don’t mean the old trick of holding a screwdriver to a bearing housing, but actually being able to hear the rolling elements of a bearing.  What about being able to record the audio sample, analyze and trend the information?  All of this is now possible with the Ultrasound technology currently available.

Most of us have heard of using Ultrasound to find […]

By |2019-04-19T15:49:29-04:00July 31st, 2017|Equipment Strategy, Ultrasound|Comments Off on Listening to Assets: Understanding Ultrasound

What is Prescriptive Maintenance?

Understanding What Comes After Predictive Maintenance

Imagine being able to adjust your maintenance actions on the fly to provide the exact maintenance where and when it is needed.  However, you are not reacting to significant changes in the condition of the equipment (like PdM), but instead, you are taking many sources of information in real-time from the equipment using Internet of Things (IoT) and using analytics to analyze and understand the condition of the equipment.  This allows for a flexible maintenance strategy in which maintenance is only applied when and where it […]

Should You Worry About IoT If You Don’t Have the Basics Down?

What Good Is The Data If You Don’t Know What To Do With It?

As maintenance, reliability, and asset management professionals, we are in an amazing time.  We can collect virtually limitless amounts of data on the condition of our assets.  With this data, we can determine the exact condition of the assets, predict when the next failure is likely to occur and how it will occur.  Besides, with all of this data, we can move to prescriptive maintenance, where the maintenance actions are determined based on the asset condition, not a predetermined […]

By |2019-04-19T15:49:36-04:00May 29th, 2017|Equipment Strategy, Reliability Engineering|Comments Off on Should You Worry About IoT If You Don’t Have the Basics Down?

Insights into Preventive Maintenance Made Simple w/ Doug Stangier

I recently had the pleasure to interview Doug Stangier, co-author of Preventive Maintenance Made Simple.  This is another excellent book in the Made Simple series, published by ReliabilityWeb.  During the interview, Doug not only provides insights into his book but also into what world class Preventive Maintenance looks like.   Anyone new to maintenance and reliability, or seasoned experts can benefit from this great book.  Without further delay, here is the interview with Doug.

James: It is my pleasure to interview a fellow Canadian.  Welcome Doug […]

By |2019-04-19T15:49:36-04:00May 22nd, 2017|Equipment Strategy, Lean Maintenance, Reliability Centered Maintenance, Total Productive Maintenance|Comments Off on Insights into Preventive Maintenance Made Simple w/ Doug Stangier