Basic Inspection Tools Are Vital to Improve Your Condition Monitoring Process
There are four extremely important parts of basic inspections…I’ll give you a hint…use your senses! Sight, smell, hearing, and touch are essential when doing inspections, don’t worry we won’t make you taste anything.
The term Predictive Maintenance excludes these four senses, so I prefer to use the term Condition Monitoring, this includes all tasks you do to discover problems early—basic objective inspections, basic subjective inspections, vibration analysis, infrared measurements, wear particle analysis, ultrasonic material testing, acoustic emission testing and other methods.
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IR Inspection Windows – See What You’ve Been Missing
An Infrared Inspection Window is a window that is used to separate environments of differing pressures or temperatures while allowing light energy at a specified electromagnetic wavelength to pass between the two environments. They must meet the strength and environmental requirements for the type of equipment in which they are fitted, as well as be compatible with the infrared inspection equipment being used.
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Reliability Maintenance Augmented by Visual Plan 3D Visualization: Closing the Gap Between Inspection and Remediation
When it comes to mechanical, electrical and critical asset management, routine manual inspection is a critical component of every reliability maintenance strategy. However, identifying and reporting findings is only as effective as the remediation strategy. Inspection reports, maintenance histories, and design basis memorandums (DBM) stored in various data silos disassociate critical information from the physical location and environmental context of an asset: this leads to communication issues, service delays, extended downtime, and even catastrophic failure.
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Appreciating the Value of Good Stewardship
What’s stewardship? Simply stated, it’s the “personal responsibility to take care of something owned by someone else.” Here are five areas to focus on when developing and/or strengthening a culture of stewardship within our organizations:
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