What can Vibration Analysis do for you?
• Focus maintenance and operations by predicting functional
failures, forecasting failure mode and estimating time until
failure; conveniently schedule targeted proactive failure
interventions and prevent loss of production
availability/production capacity/product quality
• Improve reliability (mean time to repair, mean time between
failure, plant availability and utilization)
• Decrease maintenance cost and optimize returns, reduce labour and
material cost needed for preventive maintenance routines, minimize
energy consumption, increase product quality, increase production
capacity, reduce spare parts inventory, provide consistent
equipment performance, provide reliable production, increase
equipment availability, reduce downtime, extend asset life, reduce
overhauls, prevent maintenance overkill and maintenance collateral
damage, improve staff time allocation, improve repair scheduling,
save overtime cost
• Define details of failures and repair requirements
• Optimize preventive maintenance routines
• Avoid health and safety and environmental risks
What assets could benefit from Vibration
Analysis?
• Rotating equipment such as motors, pumps, blowers, fans, gear
boxes, mills, rollers, crushers, compressors and turbines
• Interconnected structures, static equipment and piping
What equipment problems can Vibration Analysis
detect?
• unbalance
• misalignment
• looseness
• bent shaft
• gear problems
• bearing problems
• motor internal faults
• electrical grounding faults
• noise excitation (piping/structural)
How can Weir help?
• Our experienced, unbiased specialists will define and forecast
equipment problems, needs and goals
• We develop a sequential performance improving predictive
maintenance program
• Specialists provide expertise and mentorship to support
performance improving increments
• Develop equipment operations description complete with drawings,
collect real operating data, generate reports with useful details,
trend graphs and exception reports
• Provide specific recommendations, avoiding guesswork and
percentage estimates
• Perform start-up and commissioning acceptance tests
• Complete field balancing
• Evaluate used equipment before purchase
• Install a remote monitoring program
• Identify root cause problems and propose long term
resolutions
• Complement other condition-monitoring techniques to validate or
negate findings
• Provide quality repairs on site or at our facility, with
warranty
• Replicate obsolete parts or parts not readily available
• Extend service life of parts by appropriate coating applications
to withstand severe conditions
What industries can benefit from Vibration
Analysis?
• Power generation as well as cogeneration, windmills and
turbines
• Oil and gas extraction, refining, processing and
transmission
• Mining
• Heavy primary industry and general manufacturing
• Pulp and paper
Weir believes in long term resolutions, not interim fixes, using
Vibration Analysis as a supporting tool.
