Machinery preventative maintenance is paramount in today's factory. A machine going down can be catastrophic to the assembly line and many times specialized parts are not even available. Often such catastrophic failure or damage to a piece of machinery can be avoided through early warning detection of the problem. Sometimes sensors do not pick up every problem or fail.
We always hear about faulty lights
in airliners when the aircraft has to return only to find out that a light was
out. In machinery some warning lights go on, if their light goes out and others
show nothing and then when there is a problem no light? Machinery vibration gives
off tell-tale signs premature of the failure whether or not a light is warning
available or not. A really good mechanic, ship engine room technician or
factory maintenance expert can tell when things are not running right, but not
all.
Vibration sensors for pumps can be done by shining the beam onto a
mirror connected to the warning light, which is bolted to the base of the
machine. By early detection we can prevent a bad mounting bolt, or internal
problem causing a vibration from destroying bearings, internal or external
parts by an automatic shutdown and/or a warning light alerting the team that
there is a major problem.
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