Why is vibration such a useful method for understanding the health of rotating or reciprocating equipment? This episode talks about what vibration means, how it can be used for detection and then examples of how it can be used to diagnose the cause of issues.

This is the opening episode about modeling methods for condition monitoring or predictive maintenance. We talk about theoretical (rule/logic based) versus empirical (data driven) models, give a few examples, and then close with the topic of explainability. There’s a lot more to come on methods, but this is the start!

Increasing production and decreasing maintenance cost; what more could you ask for?

A short discussion on how APM generates value and a few methods for estimating a reasonable expected value.

Why don’t people walk around putting broomsticks on machines anymore?

Reliability Centered Maintenance, Nowlan and Heap, 1978