In today’s highly competitive marketplace, it is more important than ever that the production plant operates in a safe and reliable way. Unscheduled outages caused by plant breakdown can be very costly and engineers must use every possible means at their disposal to maximize plant reliability and performance.
Predictive maintenance, which incorporates condition-based maintenance, is a vitally important technical approach to the maintenance of rotating and reciprocating machines. Sadly, however, many organizations never manage to achieve high performance in this field because they are not able to deal with the complexities associated with the most powerful and important condition-based maintenance technique, which is vibration monitoring.