Condition Monitoring
A Predictive & Preventive Maintenance program for people who want to be proactive and save.
The Best Defense is a Good Offense
To
survive in today's economy, companies can no longer stand on the sidelines as
unplanned downtime and operational inefficiencies hammer away at corporate profitability.
For operational excellence, this means that a preventive and progressively predictive
maintenance agenda must to be pushed forward, with integrated condition monitoring
leading the charge.
Aphix partners with businesses, to provide integrated professional maintenance
solutions, using experience and technology on the cutting edge of this profession.We
provide our clients with the appropriate technical expertise, for predictive
and preventive maintenance, and the effective use of resources at the lowest
possible cost. We use computerized maintenance software, infrared thermography,
vibration analyzers, and laser alignment tools to offer a complete service.
Predicting fail ers before they cost you injury or/ and money on the spot.
Our experts can provide you with an extensive set of services, including trouble calls, routine vibration surveys and predictive maintenance audits, along with more specialized services such as reciprocating machine analysis, balancing, laser alignment and expert witnessing.
We use advanced maintenance
technology preventive and predictive maintenance equipment to providing a complete
service.
* Infrared Thermography
* Alignment Instruments/Systems & Machinery Balancing
* Nondestructive Test equipment (for Electrical and instrument testing or calibration)
* Ultrasonic Inspection
* Vibration Analysis
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Vibration Analysis
Wherever there is excessive vibration or heat on equipment most
like problems will occur. Predictive maintenance
techniques have proven to be effective strategies to reduce unexpected machinery
failure. Vibration monitoring is by far the most widely used predictive maintenance
technology due to the significant amount of machinery condition information
provided.
Infrared Thermography
Infrared
thermography can be used in a wide range of applications. Thermo grams show
deteriorated connection within electrical distribution systems, wet insulation
within a flat roofing systems, a hot spot on a steel ladle caused by deteriorated
refractory, and or the heat pattern caused by an improperly aligned motor.
Alignment Instruments/Systems & Machinery Balancing
Why
does misalignment matter? The symptoms of bearing misalignment
are shock pulses and noise with anti-friction bearings, and
rubs and higher temperature on plain bearings. These symptoms
are identical to shaft-to-shaft misalignment. Therefore, it
is not possible to positively diagnose misaligned bearings
from vibration readings alone. A shaft alignment check must
be done to eliminate shaft misalignment as a possible defect,
and then move on to the bearings.
It matters because when bearings are misaligned beyond their
internal clearance, their life is dramatically shortened.
All bearings have some internal clearance which can accommodate
some thermal expansion and misalignment. When this clearance
is fully consumed, then metal-to-metal impacting occurs with
high dynamic stresses and the bearings quickly fail.
Ultrasonic Inspection
A
particularly important problem that faces many industries is measurement of
remaining wall thickness in pipes, tubes, tanks, and structural members subject
to corrosion. Such corrosion is often not detectable by visual inspection,
even when the area is accessible. If undetected over a period of time, corrosion
will weaken walls and possibly lead to failures, some with dire safety, economic,
or environmental consequences. Ultrasonic testing is a widely accepted nondestructive
method for performing this inspection, permitting quick and reliable measurement
of thickness without requiring access to both sides of a part. Leaks
cost industry millions of dollars each year. A few small 1/2-in. leaks in
a facility using air at 100 psi with an electric production cost of about
6 cents/kilowatt hour (kWh) wastes more than $22,000 per year. A recent compressed
air leak survey at a New Jersey manufacturing plant resulted in a savings
of more than $40,000 a year and an annual reduction in electrical energy consumption
of 496,893 kWh.
