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Pump Cavitation: What It Is and How to Avoid It
What's that sound coming from your pump? If it sounds more like gravel getting pushed through pipes than a liquid, the culprit may be pump cavitation. But what exactly is pump cavitation, and why is it so harmful for pumps and their components?
Coupling Runout: Causes, Effects, and How to Fix It
Couplings are critical components in rotating machinery. They connect two shafts to ensure smooth power transfer from one machine to the next.
Demystifying Vibration Monitoring Part 3: Identifying and Interpreting Overall Vibration and Fault Patterns
Overall vibration analysis, in contrast to spectrum analysis, is much simpler. The time domain data is used to calculate one single overall vibration value, which represents the average energy of the vibration sample.
Reliability in Action: Azima Powers Efficiency for a Decade at the World’s Largest Methanol Producer
Condition Monitoring with VibGuard IIoT Helped Two Customers Avoid Over $1.7M in Damage and Downtime
ParAlign Service Helps EV Battery Manufacturer Correct Misalignment Across 200+ Rolls in 6 Days
Case study: Fluke power monitor saves California wastewater plant thousands of dollars
Read the wastewater plant case study on how the Fluke 3540 Power Monitor paid for itself in five months by eliminating the need to use contractors.
Easy-to-install Fluke sensors help you track conditional change
Continuously monitoring asset health is critical to avoiding unplanned downtime. Fluke devices help you track conditional change 24/7 and are easy to install.
How to streamline maintenance, reduce costs, and improve asset performance with Fluke Mobile
CASE STUDY: South Dakota cheese company shifts to predictive maintenance with Fluke 3561 FC sensors and eMaint
Vibration, Condition Monitoring, and Connected Reliability.
CASE STUDY: Parts manufacturer leverages Fluke sensors to launch IIoT-powered asset monitoring
Manufacturing supplier Standard Industrial reduced excess energy consumption, avoided unplanned downtime, decreased production gaps by using Fluke 3561 FC Vibration Sensors.
Building a Machine Health Monitoring Matrix
Baseline and trend your machine health monitoring in one place to analyze and troubleshoot issues quickly and efficiently.
Which assets should be screened for vibration?
Figuring out which assets should be screened for vibration can be difficult. Installing vibration monitoring sensors on key assets can increase uptime and reduce costs.
Advance your maintenance program with proactive technology
Technology has improved to the point where maintenance technicians can use the same techniques and tools to troubleshoot as well as to inspect, log and share—the basics of proactive maintenance.
Add condition monitoring with vibration sensors in five easy steps
Monitoring assets while they are in their normal operating condition is necessary for identifying power fluctuation, vibration and friction, or temperature. These issues could be symptoms of a bigger problem. Adding vibration sensors to your condition monitoring program is an easy way to add value to your maintenance activities and prevent unplanned downtime.
Top 10 industrial applications for remote vibration sensors
Vibration screening helps maintenance and reliability teams avoid rotating machine failure.
Connect to Your Assets – Integrate eMaint CMMS Software and Fluke Connect Sensors
Gain a comprehensive historical view of maintenance activity and asset health when you integrate Fluke Connect Condition Monitoring with eMaint CMMS Software.
What is the safest way to work in the danger zone? Don’t.
According to the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) Recommended Practices for Health and Safety Programs, a 50-person plant typically can increase productivity by 13% and save more than $265,000 in faulty products by implementing a rigorous safety and health program.
5 ways condition monitoring can improve your maintenance program
Wireless sensors paired with condition monitoring software can improve reliability programs, decrease costs and increase uptime.
Understanding the practicality of graded asset health
Identifying the severity of a problem by looking at data can be difficult. Color-coded, varying severity alarms enable maintenance managers to make better data-driven decisions.
3 asset diagnostic challenges condition monitoring helps solve
Limited resources can make monitoring all vital plant equipment difficult, if not impossible. That’s where a condition monitoring system with wireless sensors monitoring comes in.
4 ways maintenance teams benefit from remote power monitoring
Ensure that your team has the tools it needs to reduce unnecessary repairs and increase uptime by integrating power monitoring sensors into your maintenance program.
Top 5 benefits of vibration monitoring
Screening is an economical way to monitor assets by automating data collection. Learn more about the benefits of implementing vibration monitoring in your plant.
Power monitoring improves real-world maintenance programs
Three organizations found cost and time savings after implementing the Fluke 3540 FC Three-Phase Power Monitor into their maintenance programs.
What is an Industrial Vibration Sensor?
Maintenance professionals may not realize how using vibration sensors can improve facility efficiency. Learn about which industrial sectors can benefit from vibration sensors.
When and how to use and set up vibration monitoring on assets
Breaking down the process and rationale for successfully adding these sensors for condition monitoring
Day-one reliability
Closing the gap from the beginning at the new Dana Incorporated Driveline Toledo Plant.
No expertise required: Setting up aerospace vibration sensor
To use vibration sensors, many maintenance and reliability personnel believe they have to be a vibration expert. For some sensors, this may be true. However, for the 3561 FC Vibration Sensors paired with Fluke Connect™ Condition Monitoring (FCCM) software, expertise is not required.