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Vibration Analysis in Gearboxes
-------- WHAT IS A GEARBOX? -------------------------------------------------- A gearbox is a kind of container for integrated and synchronized gear trains. In the operational sense, a gearbox is a machine component with the ability to change speed and torque between a driving device and a driven...
» Read moreThe P-F Curve
The P-F Curve is a graphical model to visualize the condition of an asset with respect to time. It is useful in explaining the concept of condition-based maintenance and other related concepts. The P-F Curve represents a relationship between the asset condition and time. It can be seen in the mo...
» Read moreNew Safety Recommendations for COVID-19 in Maintenance Departments
The recommendations and tips are developed for actions in the manufacturing, power generation, and heavy industries. This guidance must be implemented in conjunction with OSHA Standards and for specific industries (29-CFR-1910 Subpart I-Personal Protective Equipment standards in general industry,...
» Read moreRoll Alignment in the Steel Industry
For those of you who are fairly familiar with the steel industry, you may know that steel is processed in coils. Well, steel processing is mostly done by rollers, either hot or cold. Steel is the alloy of Iron and Carbon. So far, this is what I knew before I started doing roll alignment work i...
» Read moreTaxonomy for Assets Hierarchy
To understand how the hierarchy of assets is defined, we must first understand what taxonomy is. According to ISO 14224, it is a systematic classification of elements into generic groups based on factors possibly common to all aspects (location, use, the subdivision of equipment, etc.). In other...
» Read moreIf You're Going to Align a Coupled Shaft Fan, Read This Before
Fans in the industry can be found in a wide variety of sizes and for different applications. In this article, I refer specifically to fans with direct coupling to the motor. First of all, a little context. We all have an intuitive understanding of what a fan is for. The vast majority of industry...
» Read moreAV Ingeniería Manages Its Condition Monitoring Services in the Cloud
The company AV Ingenieria [1] digitalizes its predictive maintenance services through Power-MI. Vibration analysis, ultrasound, infrared thermography and laser shaft alignment services will now be managed from the cloud. This means that predictive maintenance reports will be done on Power-MI p...
» Read moreThe Asset Health Matrix
When predictive maintenance analysts are asked about the condition of an industrial asset, the answer varies depending on what predictive technology they have used. Many failures can be identified by various monitoring technologies. However, there are failures that can only be detected with a si...
» Read morePower-MI Improves Report Filtering
We have launched an improvement in the filtering of condition monitoring reports on our Power-MI platform. With this improvement, reports can be filtered by customer, hierarchy section, date range, author of the report, report status, asset condition, condition monitoring technique, and asset ty...
» Read moreVibration Analysis of Electric Induction Motors
An electric motor is an electromechanical machine that converts electrical energy into mechanical energy. Electric motors fall into two broad groups: direct current (DC) motors and alternating current (AC) motors; alternating current motors are divided into single-phase and polyphase motors. ...
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What is Power-MI?
Power-MI is a cloud based solution that allows you to design & manage your condition-based maintenance plan integrating all techniques into one platform. Easy reporting, automatic work orders and CMMS integration.
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