Condition Monitoring And Ways It Is A Suitable Choice For Your Company

| Tuesday, March 20, 2012
By Lilliani E. Bjorklund


There are negative effects arising from a malfunctioning equipment or machinery and in order to avoid unplanned machine failures, companies employ the use of condition monitoring system. Condition monitoring includes executing actions to lengthen the life of equipment and scheduling maintenance to prevent further machine damage. One determining factor of a potential machine failure is the discrepancy in the values set.

Machineries and equipments that are defective have a greater risk of malfunctioning than machines without any problems. With condition monitoring, not only is it doable to isolate the damaged part, but it is also possible to determine the level of damage in a machine. The system also find out the things that could potentially influence the defective machine's lifespan.

Condition monitoring is priceless to most businesses because it provides numerous advantages. One of the benefits of constantly monitoring the condition of machineries and equipment is it is cost effective. To perform repairs when the machine is at the early stage of deterioration is less expensive than to wait for the machine to stop working before fixing it. Additionally, by having scheduled machine maintenance, a company can avoid losing revenues from usual business operation. With this technology, it is possible to lengthen the lifespan of plant machinery because preventive maintenance can be executed before repeated malfunction occurs, and it is also easy to prevent unscheduled major repairs.

Businesses can choose from the various types of CM monitoring. The three commonly used kinds of monitoring are online, onsite and offsite CM monitoring. If you want to get results right away, other factors not considering, your best bet is an online monitoring system. Depending on the result from the online monitoring, an offsite or onsite monitoring may have to be conducted. On-site CM monitoring is relatively fast, but not as on-time as monitoring on-line. This monitoring option works well on setups such as a mine or oil refinery, wherein it is simple to conduct sampling and testing because of centralization and asset localization. Off-site monitoring on the other hand is an option in which samples are forwarded to laboratories for analysis.

Factors to be considered when choosing a system are the cost of the monitoring system, fastness of response, availability of manpower and condition of the equipment. Not all condition monitoring techniques can be applied in the three options mentioned. A perfect example is vibration analysis, a technique in CM monitoring that cannot be utilized offsite or onsite.




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