SMRP18 – Online Monitoring with Maureen Gribble

Ultrasound is a great tool but using it to monitor your equipment needs resources and time. When you install sensors for data capturing, there are a lot of values that come up. That much amount of data can overwhelm your engineers. That’s why it is better to have an online monitoring solution that can do that job for you. One of such tools is ‘Forecast’ designed by UE systems. All you have to do is plug the device to the critical equipment, put the sensors at various vulnerable points, and you have a got a wired online monitoring system for you.
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SMRP18 – What’s New with SDT with Allan Rienstra

What’s New with SDT with Allan Rienstra

Condition based monitoring is good for the equipment to do predictive analysis. Ultrasound helps greatly with this part. SDT is one of the leading ultrasound solutions companies in the world and they have introduced a new ultrasound tool to make the lubrication process better in the facilities. This new tool is called SDT-340 and it is combined with UAS4.0. SDT-340 collects machine data based on the ultrasound sensors and the new Ultra Analysis Suite detects even the slow moving machine parts where even a teeniest of rotation occurs in the systems. That is what makes it unique along with other upgrades that it had built-in.
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79 – How to Get the Most Out of Your PM Program with Ricky Smith

How to Get the Most Out of Your PM Program with Ricky Smith

There are a lot of companies that have their own Preventive Maintenance programs now and only a few of those are good at it. Even though they perform regular preventive maintenance but they never get the desired results. The equipment still fails frequently and they are annoyed by the fact that what they do never works. It is mostly because they do the same routine compliance over and over again without ever trying anything new or at the very least learn about new practices. This is where the Preventive Maintenance fails and companies bear the extra cost of maintenance.
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74 – Understanding Ultrasound with Allan Rienstra, Part 2

Understanding Ultrasound with Allan Rienstra, Part 2

When it comes to condition-based monitoring, no matter how hard you try, you can never have 100% failure protection. At some point and on some level—even at the smallest levels—something is going to go wrong and your assets are going to fail. The best choice is to always plan for those sudden failures to minimize their damage in the end. The only way to ensure that is to have a very good detection strategy in place. Ultrasound helps greatly in achieving this milestone by helping you monitor the health of your entire facilities, giving you a much better proactive approach.
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73 – Understanding Ultrasound with Allan Rienstra, Part 1

Understanding Ultrasound with Allan Rienstra, Part 1

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49 – Introduction to Vibration Analysis with Jason Tranter, Part 2

Introduction to Vibration Analysis with Jason Tranter, Part 2

This episode of the rooted in reliability podcast provides an introduction to the vibration and vibration analysis with Jason Tranter. There are a lot of failures that occur in the machinery of an organization just because their condition monitoring processes are not very good. Most of all, the technicians who are assigned these tasks related to the condition-based maintenance of the rotating machines either don’t have enough knowledge or they are not doing it correctly. And because of that not only the budget of the facilities suffer but also the reliability programs are affected by these failures at a great level.
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48 – Introduction to Vibration Analysis with Jason Tranter, Part 1

Introduction to Vibration Analysis with Jason Tranter, Part 1

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45 – The Condition of PdM in Industry with Tom Wilk

The Condition of PdM in Industry with Tom Wilk

This episode of the rooted in reliability podcast is about the condition of predictive maintenance in the industry and the guest in this episode is Thomas Wilk who is the editor in chief in Plant Services—a publication in the field of maintenance and reliability. There is no doubt in the fact that predictive maintenance is very critical for increasing uptime of your equipment and the productivity of your plant. When you can predict the failures that are sure to occur in the earlier or later stages, that is where you start to make the smart decisions regarding the maintenance of your assets that you have placed in your organization.
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