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.
Online System, How Does it Really Work? – Part 2
Part 2 - The surge of modern online system availability For the sake of clarity in this article, the previously mentioned surveillance system will now be called an online system, a common reference at this time in the industry. For most of us in the PdM arena, the...
Online System, How Does it Really Work? – Part I
With the rage of recent online monitoring systems flooding the PdM market, we received many inquiries regarding the advantages and disadvantages of the “newly” marketed systems. First and foremost, the online system (or Continuous Condition Monitoring system) has...
Condition Monitoring in a Pandemic
Early 2020, who could have imagined all the changes that were coming to our lives and businesses. The COVID-19 public health emergency has upended many of the usual patterns of our days in nearly every area of life you can name. That includes predictive maintenance...
Online Condition Monitoring
How many times has your company had a great idea for making a big and exciting change—and then had to abandon the idea because you just can’t spare the time from your day-to-day operations to make a substantial adjustment to your work? You might even be confident that...
Weathering the Storm
We did not know what was coming to our community on August 10, 2020. The day started out as normal and the forecast was not unusual in any particular way. Then, around 12:30 pm the sky got dark, it started to rain heavily, and the wind started to blow. We are not...
Don’t Rely on Luck When it Comes to Keeping Your Facility Running
The month of March brings two concepts to mind for a lot of people. Madness – as in “March Madness,” beloved by basketball fans everywhere. Luck – as in “Luck of the Irish,” hoped for by St. Patrick’s Day revelers everywhere. We’d like to combine those two concepts...