Predictive Maintenance Blog

Meet Nick Heying, Reliability Consulting Analyst
How long have you been with ATS and what do you do for the company? I have been with ATS since December of 2010, so about eight and half years. I am a Reliability Consulting Analyst at ATS. I travel and visit clients around the US, while performing several PdM technologies and I do analyzation...

Vibration Data Collection
Collecting can be fun. Sports memorabilia. Precious Moments figurines. Star Trek and Star Wars action figures living in harmony. Comic books. Heck, a whole host of weird and wonderful stuff. But hardly anyone is excited about collecting vibration data. No one ever says, “Hey, Gary, wanna...

Baselines for Vibration Analysis
Every band relies on its bassline—that low, thumping sound that helps establish the rhythm, tempo and signature sound of a song. Your predictive maintenance (PdM) program should rely on a baseline, too—especially in the area of vibration analysis. Without a baseline, it’s hard to know what the...