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CONDITION MONITORING The Ultraprobe 15000 is a great ultrasound instrument for bearings monitoring and inspection. ADRIAN MESSER, CMRP, UE Systems, Inc., adrianm @uesystems.com Slow Speed Bearing Monitoring with Ultrasound As maintenance and reliability professionals, we must ensure that the assets that we are responsible for are operating as they were designed and installed to be. The hope is to move more towards predictive maintenance rather than reactive maintenance when a machine fails. 34 maintworld 4/<strong>2016</strong>
CONDITION MONITORING IT HAS BEEN PROVEN that when plants and facilities have a robust proactive maintenance programme, those plants and facilities will operate more safely, with less downtime, and with improved product quality. Maintenance and reliability professionals have tools at their disposal to monitor asset health on a routine basis. Similar to the way a doctor may use a stethoscope to listen to a patient’s heartbeat, or a thermometer to measure the patient’s temperature, the maintenance and reliability professional uses condition monitoring tools that can help to assess the health of a mechanical asset. Slow Speed Bearing Inspection with Ultrasound Vibration analysis has long been the instrument of choice to use for bearings and other rotating equipment. More commonly, ultrasound is being used in conjunction with vibration analysis to help technicians confirm the condition of mechanical assets. Because of The on-board Spectralyzer on the Ultraprobe 15000 allows for a sound spectrum overview on the testing point – a great help when inspecting slow speed bearings. Bad Bearing: 1 rpm bearing on a furnace application. Note all of the anomalies that appear in the Time Wave Form from the “crackling and popping” sounds that were produced by bearing fatigue. the versatility of ultrasound, if a facility does not have a robust vibration analysis programme in place, ultrasound can be implemented to detect early stage bearing failures, as well as other issues. If the vibration analysis is performed by an outside service provider on a quarterly or monthly basis, ultrasound can be used during the interim. This will help the facility to know the condition of some of the more critical assets prior to the service provider entering the facility; therefore, the service provider’s time can be used more efficiently because the plant knows if there are any eminent problems with the assets that are being monitored by ultrasound. Another scenario in which ultrasound may be used first over vibration analysis is with the monitoring of slow speed bearings. Slow speed bearing monitoring with ultrasound is actually easier than you might think. Because most high-end ultrasound instruments have a wide sensitivity range and frequency tuning, it is possible to listen to the EXTEND YOUR BEARINGS LIFE USING ULTRASOUND An Ultrasonic Instrument is the perfect tool to inspect and lubricate your bearings! ULTRAPROBE ® 15000 For Inspection Detect early bearings failures Easily create a bearings route Trend your bearings condition Set alarms for early failures Make sound recordings of your bearings for analysis GREASE CADDY ® 401 For Lubrication Listen to your bearings and know when to stop lubricating Avoid over-lubrication: the cause of over 60% of bearing failures Receive alarms when your bearings need lubrication Start a lubrication program Windmolen 20, 7609 NN Almelo, The Netherlands info@uesystems.eu | www.uesystems.eu | Tel. +31 546 725 125
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