Vibration Monitoring - Savings assessment
Vibration Monitoring - Savings assessment
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Hello everyone,
Our company is going to change condition monitoring subcontactor in the nearest future, as well as new, more complex and simply better agreement. The same time the company is obliged to show quite significant savings this budget year. I strongly believe that the new and better monitoring manner must be paid back, but I have no idea how to assess, very generally, an amout of money resulting from that as savings. Could anybody help me, just by pushing my thoughts in a correct way. I would be grateful for that.
Best Regards
Milosz
Our company is going to change condition monitoring subcontactor in the nearest future, as well as new, more complex and simply better agreement. The same time the company is obliged to show quite significant savings this budget year. I strongly believe that the new and better monitoring manner must be paid back, but I have no idea how to assess, very generally, an amout of money resulting from that as savings. Could anybody help me, just by pushing my thoughts in a correct way. I would be grateful for that.
Best Regards
Milosz





RE: Vibration Monitoring - Savings assessment
RE: Vibration Monitoring - Savings assessment
Machinery condition analysis allows you to, most of the time, schedule maintenance and repair times. Rather than run equipemnt until it suddenly and catastrophically fails. Once started it should be continued at regular intervals. Properly done, you should be able to see the equipment degrade so that maintenance can be planned. If vibration analysis is used it works best on rotating machinery. Reciprocating machinery is harder to do, but there are people out there who say they can. The savings comes about by being able to schedule maintenance and perhaps replace only bearings and gaskets instead of the whole peice of equiupment because ti failed catastrophically.
Regards
Dave
RE: Vibration Monitoring - Savings assessment
Best Regards
Milosz
RE: Vibration Monitoring - Savings assessment
I don't you know if you are still looking for a company to either perform the analaysis, or both the measurements and analysis, but perhaps we could be of help. We have also been involved in setting up a measurements program by telemetry (for more capital intensive plants, off-shore wind turnbines in particular), but I guess that this is only commercially interesting in a few specific applications.
RE: Vibration Monitoring - Savings assessment
Telemetry itself is used in our company to monitor liquid levels, pressures in storage tanks at our customers.
Thak you for your assistance.
Best Regards
Milosz