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Double Anniversary:
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35 years in the industry
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The Importance of Proper
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A Double Anniversary:
Mobius Institute Board of Certification is an ISO/IEC 17024 and ISO 18436-1 accredited
certification body providing globally recognized certification to reliability professionals,
35 years in the industry, vibration analysts, ultrasound analysts and thermal imaging specialists.
20 years of Mobius Institute
Mobius further contributes to the condition monitoring industry by hosting the CBM
Conference and the www.CBMconnect.com media site worldwide.
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VIDEO SPOTLIGHT
Rough Alignment
the author of the majority of Mobius’ reliability, condition
monitoring and precision maintenance training materials,
and is a member of ISO TC108/SC5. After running a vibration
consulting and software development company in Australia
in the mid-’80s, Jason sold his business and moved to the
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A Double Anniversary:
35 years in the industry,
20 years of Mobius Institute
By Jason Tranter, Founder of Mobius Institute
I would like to say that the CBM and reliability world has What is the answer?
significantly changed, but I think we all know that it hasn’t. We have to be able to “sell” reliability. We must stop
Yes, the technology has improved immeasurably, but what rewarding reactive behavior, and start rewarding proactive
goes on in the majority of industrial facilities has not. behavior. Rather than focusing solely on the “technology”
of reliability improvement (CBM, RCFA, RCM, etc.) we must
“Why monitor our pumps; we have spares, and many are also address culture change and the business of reliability. If
redundant?” That was a question posed to me at a waste we can measure and communicate the benefits, in dollars,
water plant 35 years ago. That worried me. I am still worried. safety, and tons-per-day of output, then we may get people’s
That could easily be a statement made in regard to critical attention.
assets today.
This was the problem in 1984, and it is still the problem 35
Why is it so? years later. Most people, especially management, don’t
It is human nature to enjoy solving problems. In addition to recognize the amazing benefits of having equipment that
the pride of being able to say “I fixed that”, you can clearly performs as desired. Actually, that’s not correct. What people
demonstrate the benefit. If it was costing $10,000 an hour don’t understand is that their facilities can be transformed so
while it was down, and now it is running, you just saved the they do perform as desired.
company a good chunk of money. And it doesn’t hurt if you
get paid extra during overtime, and if your supervisor pats What is the real answer?
you on the back in thanks. So what is the solution? I am convinced that education (with
the associated change in behavior) is the only way forward.
Now contrast that with reliability improvement and condition
monitoring. With the possible exception of the CBM analyst We started Mobius because it was frustrating developing
being able to warn everyone of pending failure, true reliabil- hi-tech vibration monitoring systems when the available
ity improvement can go unnoticed. When failure doesn’t training was unable to explain how it worked, how machines
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failed, how to analyze the data, and so on. I was entire organization. Sure, the reliability engineers, CBM
fortunate to have application, software, and technology analysts, and maintenance technicians need training, but
experience so I decided to move into training and cer- so do the operators, production management, procure-
tification. Animations, simulations, e-learning, pre- and ment staff, and other management and engineering staff.
post-course training and other techniques made a So iLR provides toolbox talks, manager briefings, skills
difference. We have now trained training, and more.
30,000 analysts in our courses, and many more via So while we can happily say that thousands have been
iLearnVibration and Webinars/YouTube (we have over trained, it is just the tip of the iceberg. So that is why ARP
1,000,000 views without involving kittens ;) ). And we can was born.
offer real certification; accredited and audited to Interna-
tional Standards Organization (ISO) standards. Stepping it up a notch
Being madly passionate about the benefits of quality
But we needed to change. Many years ago, probably (non-commercial) education, and accredited, indepen-
around 2010, we also transformed our business to dent certification, and being unsatisfied with the options
help our customers transition from reactive (condition available around the world, a group of like-minded
monitoring is very often reactive in nature) to proactive. industry professionals got together to define the Asset
We need to detect and solve problems, but we also need Reliability Practitioner scheme. We are just getting
to work hard at preventing them. started, but the reaction has surpassed all my hopes. In
2019 we will have courses in multiple languages and in
So we created iLearnReliability. I have to confess, it has multiple countries.
been a tougher ‘sell’ than expected... e-learning is not
for everyone, but we also tried to create training for the Without making this a sales pitch, ARP has three unique
benefits: it provides a growth path (from Category I to
III); it recognizes experience in addition to knowledge
(Cat IIx and IIIx); and it involves the “plant-floor” (ARP
I) to achieve site-wide buy-in, and management (ARP
III) for true leadership. With our signature animated
training, pre-course videos, and all the rest, I believe
it will make a meaningful difference around the world.
Our future
From a Mobius perspective, we hope you give us the
opportunity to continue to educate and certify you. We
know what a difference it can make to be confident in
your job, to have opportunities for improvement, and to
be recognized for your knowledge and experience. Via
our courses, publications, on-line, and conferences, and
via our qualified network of 100 partners in 60 countries,
we are going to continue to work to improve what we do
so you can achieve your personal goals.
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The Importance of
Proper Shaft Alignment
We are all under great pressure to increase uptime, Bearing damage
reduce costs, and improve product quality. No Rolling element (anti-friction) bearings are precision components
matter what your role in the organization we can all designed to operate with clean lubricant, reasonably constant tem-
contribute to these goals. One way you can help is perature, and axial and radial forces/loads within design guidelines.
to perform precision shaft alignment on your rotating When a machine is misaligned, the pre-load and dynamic forces are
raised considerably.
machinery.
If you increase the load on a bearing by just 20%, its life is halved.
If you double the load on a bearing, you reduce the life to one
The majority of bearing failures are caused by misalignment seventh of its design life. When machines are misaligned, the load
on bearings is increased considerably.
Poor lubrication practices, imbalance, resonances and other
factors also contribute to machinery failure, but it is widely
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Seal damage
Misalignment has different effects on different types of couplings
Seals are high cost items, often costing up to a third of the total
pump cost. Misalignment also causes seals to fail prematurely
due to the increased load. Seals do not tolerate misalignment: The rubber or plastic sleeve between the two hubs in flexible
face rubbing, elevated temperatures, and ingress of contami- couplings can wear - in fact you will often find a small pile of rubber
nants quickly damage expensive components. The life of the or plastic under the coupling when you remove the coupling guard.
seal can be reduced to 30-50% of design life.
There is a common misconception: “I use flexible couplings so
I do not need to worry about precision alignment”. It is very
important to understand that the life of the coupling will be reduced
if misaligned, and more importantly, bearings, seals and shafts
will still be under increased load and thus likely to fail prematurely.
Coupling damage
The impact of misalignment on couplings varies greatly Misalignment can increase the wear on gear couplings
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Vibration
The rotational forces that result from misalignment generate
vibration. We have seen how these forces can damage the
coupling, seals, shaft and bearing, but the vibration can
damage other components - even machines located within
close proximity.
Energy consumption
Misaligned machines can also consume more energy. Although
Misalignment generates vibration
studies have produced varying results, it is generally considered
that a misaligned machine will consume up to 15% more
Have you ever heard of a standby machine that was started,
energy. Large studies have documented savings of between
only to quickly fail? This can be due to “brinelling”. The
3% and 8%.
bearings in the standby machine are subjected to the vibration
of local machines, and that vibration either creates localized
wear, or it results in “plastic deformation” of the bearing Consider the following equations. If we can reduce the con-
surface. sumption of a 30 HP (22 kW) 460 Volt motor from 36 amps to
32 amps, and we are paying 0.06 per kW Hour then the savings
are approximately $1,500.
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