The Importance of Utilizing Machine Condition Monitoring

By Judy G. Abdullah


Potential mechanical failure can be avoided by using a process called machine condition monitoring, which is the process of finding any major changes that can lead to machine failure. A main attribute of this is predictive maintenance. Planned machine maintenance is the main reason to use machine condition monitoring, as it helps avoid future failure before it ever occurs. Deviated temperature vibration behavior must occur in order for any machine failure to be displayed on the machinery.

Predictive maintenance cannot be used in order to predict future failure. Defect free machines are less at risk than machines that already have recent defects. Once the mechanical failure has been located and already occurred, the CM systems will able to measure the ruin of the system. Letting the machine to fail will end the end cost more than intervening early in the failure process. The overall lifespan and condition of a machine can be greatly increased by benefiting from using machine condition monitoring to find subsequent heat dissipation and load way before errors that will be repeated occur. Heat exchangers and boilers are examples of rotating and stationary plant machinery that can be examined through machine condition monitoring.

Rotating machines can be analyzed by using a common method for testing called vibration analysis. Many machines have a major component called casing vibrations, which is the process of taking measurements of machines that bear casing seismic electric transducers. Rotating shafts of eddy-current transducers can be directly tested in order to measure the radial and axial vibration in the shaft. Former startups and shutdowns can be historical aspects that can be compared with the level of vibration to establish the principles of load changes, which also assesses the severity of the situation.

Visual examinations are oftentimes a form of any underlying aspect to machine condition monitoring even though only if calculated and observed by a specific set of guidelines will this be true. At the time of observation, the condition of the machine and the results from the testing must be compared to previous and future tests in order for this test and inspection to be thought of as valid.

Machine condition monitoring is not just visually analyzing the machine for any crack or seepage in the pipe work. The existing condition must be compared to previous inspections to be considered correct and to present current supported parameters. Condition assessment is when an inspection is done due to previous inspections, whereas machine condition monitoring requires that the test is comparative to any previous data and reports that are a valuable and accepted comparison.




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