Mitchell Vibration Services: Specializing in Industrial Vibration Analysis.
Vibration Analysis is a non-intrusive, in situ, real-time process for monitoring the condition of your rotating equipment, without requiring costly shutdowns for inspection. The process allows our vibration analysts to take readings on your motors, pumps, fans, compressors, turbines, blowers, generators, and more – all while they are operational.
Why Monthly Vibration Programs Work.
A properly designed monthly vibration program can help you trend the condition of your rotating equipment, and help you to plan your maintenance on scheduled downtime. Monthly reporting on the reliability and condition of your equipment can help you to plan the work, budget the required labour, and order the parts you’ll need.
Adding Mitchell Vibration Services to your maintenance program can help you to operate more efficiently and effectively. Our monthly vibration surveys include reports to help your maintenance managers and planners know what to expect, and when to expect it. This allows you to schedule maintenance on scheduled downtime, instead of having production losses due to sudden catastrophic failures.
Vibration Analysis: 101
Everything vibrates. Even objects seemingly at rest are vibrating, and their physical and chemical properties give them natural frequencies. A rotating object, such as a shaft, creates frequencies together with other components it interacts with, such as bearings and sheaves, or a fan, compressor, pump, or coupling.
Each of these elements has an identifiable frequency, or range of frequencies that can be picked up by a vibration analyzer. The data can be filtered to see the individual frequencies for each separate component, allowing a vibration analyst to look at vibration data from a set of gears, fan, pump, bearings, etc.
Over time, as these vibration signatures change, monthly reports will trend components, and give service recommendations and reliability information for various components.
Contact Mitchell Vibration Services today, and add a monthly vibration survey to your maintenance program.