Free Yourself From Unwanted Machine Vibrations With STIWEB

Posted by eliteinternet on January 11th, 2021

Why the measurement of vibration is important in industrial pieces of machinery and why every industry should opt for this procedure of vibration analysis.

 What is vibration and why there is a need for vibration measurement?

Vibrations are said to be a mechanical phenomenon whereby oscillations occur at an equilibrium point. In the process, the body gets displaced from its equilibrium condition and is allowed to respond to the forces that tend to restore equilibrium.

Vibrations may easily influence the durability and reliability of machinery systems and can easily cause damages such as structural damage, work damage, abnormal stopping, and even disaster. Thus, vibration monitoring through vibration test equipment is an important countermeasure to prevent these sorts of problems. The very pointing out of the probable defects within a machine aims at reducing fan vibration failures and various unplanned downtime which can alter the effectiveness of the productivity which is increasingly demanded of condition monitoring technologies. Over many years, vibration analysis has been well proven to be one of the most effective and even most efficient tools for identifying mechanical and electrical faults within a piece of machinery. Most vibration programs existing today use a combination of on-line monitoring and offline (walk around) monitoring.

The simple and primary goal of the vibration analysis is to identify faults within a machine. And then alerting the personnel that some specific type of actions needs to be performed in order to fix that error. Problems start to occur when the needed frequency of the data collection is not well aligned with the maintenance strategy. 

Many industrial plants existing today and running every day still operate along with a "run to failure" maintenance strategy. In such a mode, no actions are taken until the machinery fails. The maintenance staff begins to run from one disaster to another but getting nowhere and sustaining heavy losses. In such a mode, maintenance costs and production losses are said to be high. Some companies have now transitioned to preventive, or also said as calendar-based maintenance. In it, actions are scheduled regardless of the actual condition of the equipment. With such a specific approach, fault-free machines can be repaired unnecessarily, leading to higher program costs.