20-09-2017, 01:26 PM
Unreliable gearboxes can have an incredible ability to ruin your day. They are often small, often overlooked and often critical to the operation of that conveyor belt, agitator, loading gantry.
Small Change Boxes - It would be tempting to say that the oil analysis will solve all your problems. It is not customary and it is especially true of all the thousands of small gearboxes scattered around the plant, but too small to present in a full blown CM plan. Our advice in such cases is to use Acoustic Emissions as the proper technique, this will indicate problems such as poor lubrication before damage occurs. It requires only basic installation, can handle slow or stop start operation and does not need high level of data processing.
Medium-sized gearboxes are really the most problematic. It is often too small for a complete oil analysis program, but also in critical, hard-to-reach applications such as the Top Drive in a ground-based oil drilling rig. No top drive - no drilling - and no spare parts.
Small Change Boxes - It would be tempting to say that the oil analysis will solve all your problems. It is not customary and it is especially true of all the thousands of small gearboxes scattered around the plant, but too small to present in a full blown CM plan. Our advice in such cases is to use Acoustic Emissions as the proper technique, this will indicate problems such as poor lubrication before damage occurs. It requires only basic installation, can handle slow or stop start operation and does not need high level of data processing.
Medium-sized gearboxes are really the most problematic. It is often too small for a complete oil analysis program, but also in critical, hard-to-reach applications such as the Top Drive in a ground-based oil drilling rig. No top drive - no drilling - and no spare parts.