Many manufacturers have found optimized vibration test to be the most efficient means of finding production flaws, crediting it with discovering 60% to 80% of the problems. In fact, many companies ...

Rotor dynamics and vibration analysis encompass the study of the behaviour of rotating machinery subjected to various excitations and uncertainties. This field, which lies at the intersection of ...

Vibration monitoring and other high-end measurement technologies can solve equipment health challenges that are shaking up the engineering world. Beyond constant change from advances in Industrial ...

What is predictive maintenance (PdM)? It’s the application of instrumentation and intelligence to help determine the condition of equipment and whether maintenance should be performed to avoid ...

Engineers looking to improve their understanding of vibration and how it affects mechanical equipment may want to consider taking a four-day course presented Engineers looking to improve their ...

3D non-contact surface analysis is used extensively across the industry to measure surface irregularities and small displacements – it provides accurate, traceable and repeatable measurements. When ...

Part 1 of this series addressed the advantages and disadvantages of various vibration sensors; Part 2 examined signal conditioning and system hardware selection and configuration. I’ll wrap up by ...