Ballbar data will quantify faults in the machine center such as servo mismatch, stick-slip error, straightness of the axes, lateral play, backlash, reversal spikes, circularity error, scale, and machine geometry. Each of these conditions can be trended over time.
If Your Only Tool is a Hammer, Every Problem Looks Like a Nail
“If your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.” Several scholars used and published this analogy in the 1960s, but the idea can be traced back at least a century sooner to a London publication in 1868. Nowhere is it truer than in the Condition...
ASK THE EXPERTS: How can we continue to show financial benefit of continuing Condition Monitoring when it’s not finding new problems?
This question is from Paul in the Maritime industry: When we first started our condition monitoring program, we had several findings on each of our ships and we were able to plan and schedule the corrective action with no impact on our underway schedules. We achieved...
ASK THE EXPERTS: Why determine the specific fault frequency on rolling element bearings?
This question from Jarrod, a maintenance engineer in the Marine industry: Why do vibration analysts focus on being able to determine the specific fault frequency on rolling element bearings? Don’t we typically change the whole bearing and not just the defective part...
Introducing: Ask The Experts! – A Predictive Maintenance Q&A Program from ATS
Advanced Technology Solutions is pleased to present Ask the Experts – a section of our website dedicated to answering important questions or issues that you – our customers and followers, have concerning how to enhance the success of your condition monitoring and...
Introduction to Predictive Maintenance and Vibration Analysis Training
Introduction to Predictive Maintenance and Vibration Analysis Class With Ryan Bui Download the Class Flyer Ryan, a graduate of both Iowa and Iowa State in Engineering, specializes in preventative, predictive, and proactive maintenance concepts, technologies, and their...
(VIDTORIAL) How We Use Data to Prevent and Correct Failure in our Bodies and in Machines
<TRANSCRIPT> Hey there Everybody, Bob Craft here, for Advanced Technology Solutions, where our motto is SOLUTIONS BEFORE PROBLEMS. Earlier this week I had some corrective maintenance done on my wrist. Which is why I’m not wearing my signature hand-tied bow tie...