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155 Bearing Installation with Bernd Seidenthal

Bearing Installation with Bernd Seidenthal

Predictive maintenance is a huge part of the overall reliability of your assets. Most of the times, equipment fails because of the bearing or seal failure. Bearing failures are very common in the facilities and improper installation of a bearing is one of the biggest reasons it fails. If you don t do it right with proper tools, you are going to damage the bearing and it is only a matter of when rather than how. Before installing a bearing, you need to have a clean space and all the necessary tools should be with you […]

By |April 30th, 2019|Comments Off on 155 Bearing Installation with Bernd Seidenthal

154 Asset Condition Monitoring with Jack Nicholas

Asset Condition Monitoring with Jack Nicholas

Asset condition monitoring can be defined the process to determine the health status of the equipment using high-tech tools, predict future status based on the deficiencies found, and return health to normal before complete loss of function. That way you can plan the maintenance of the equipment at your own best time rather than having the equipment fail at a bad time. There are a lot of tools out there that can help you with predictive maintenance or asset condition monitoring. Using sensors is one of the best examples of advanced tools being used to […]

By |April 23rd, 2019|Comments Off on 154 Asset Condition Monitoring with Jack Nicholas

153 What tool when with Ron Moore

What Tool? When? with Ron Moore

Today s episode is based on What Tool When by Ron Moore. The book covers all the common tools that are handy in a workplace for a maintenance engineer. Then, it covers concepts like Manufacturing, six sigma, TPM, reliability and maintenance along with information about lots of tools. In the early chapters, it provides insights into leadership and culture change. It tells you about the very basics of having a tool around and how to use it but it also provides you the basic things that should be in place before you get to the […]

By |April 16th, 2019|Comments Off on 153 What tool when with Ron Moore

152- Field Balancing with Gary James

Field Balancing with Gary James

There are a lot of aspects that need to be taken care of in condition monitoring and field balancing is one of those. There are two types of balancing; static and dynamic. The first one deals with balancing in a controlled environment and other one is purely balancing a piece of equipment in the field. When you have balanced an asset against a bunch if parameters, you know when there s an unbalance in the equipment. There are different defects that can caught using a balancing frequency or other parameter. There are a lot of causes […]

By |April 9th, 2019|Comments Off on 152- Field Balancing with Gary James

151- First Day as an RE with Fred Schenkelberg

First Day as a Reliability Engineer with Fred Schenkelberg

It is always a difficult first day for a reliability engineer in a new place. There are a lot of things to get yourself involved in and there are some tips that can really help you get through that successfully. The job of a reliability engineer requires always moving around, so there is hardly the need of finding the station first. A good reliability engineers always starts with getting the lay of the land first. This would involve getting to know the relevant personnel on the job and the people who can […]

By |April 2nd, 2019|Comments Off on 151- First Day as an RE with Fred Schenkelberg