Editorial

Hansford Sensors Ltd., the new sensor company formed in November 2006 has announced its first series of piezoelectric vibration sensors designed specifically to monitor the vibration levels on important plant and machinery across all types of industries.

These days, most Maintenance Engineers rely on sensors to detect increasing levels of vibration from bearings, shafts and other rotating components to warn them of inefficient operation or even possible future failure. This important knowledge allows them to maintain quality and avoid plant shut-down, with its inherent high costs.

The HS series of vibration sensors offer a choice of AC, velocity or 4-20mA outputs to suit differing applications. They are all built for robustness with their welded stainless steel construction, high shock tolerance and wide temperature operation range.

Dew point measuring devices detect the formation of moisture in compressed air systems

For industrial applications
IRtec P500+ non contact infrared thermometers are designed to simplify temperature measurements at distance from a target and to identify hot spots, which normally means anomalous operative conditions avoiding costly downtime or processing problems that lead to rejected products.

The instruments can measure the superficial temperature, in order to localize in a quick way problems of lubrication, overload, short circuits, or overheated or out of range equipments.

The series is composed by models with a temperature range from -32

A full specification truly portable vibration analyser at an affordable price!

Because it is based on Pocket PC technology, Pocket VibrA Pro is able to combine exceptional processing power with ease of use to offer the ultimate in portable vibration analysis.

Pocket VibrA Pro combines asset management, data collection and analysis together with 3 level colour-coded alarm indication in a rugged vibration meter that fits in your pocket.

All data is held in a shared database format which allows easy viewing of data or asset configuration to be performed on the Pocket PC or a desk top. Synchronisation is automatic via the PC docking cradle and the included FreeTrendTM software allows full trending of all asset data as well as automatic report generation.

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Article Written By Idhammar Reliability & Maintenance Management Consultants.

Many reactive organizations conclude that RCA is the first agenda item for improving reliability. But after completing a few root cause activities, it's obvious that the results will point to already-known problem areas, such as inferior preventive maintenance (PM) and planning and scheduling. The initial reasoning to start an RCA initiative often follows this train of thought: We have a lot of equipment breakdowns, so . . . step one should be to analyze those breakdowns in order to . . . identify the root cause of the breakdowns in order to . . . eliminate the root causes.

It sounds logical and reasonable when presented this way, but if basic PMs and planning and scheduling aren't in place, most RCAs will point to these deficiencies. Typical outcomes of analyses fall on the wrong amount or type of lubrication, shaft misalignment, unbalanced equipment, missed inspections and overhauls. The "human" or "process" causes often relate to poorly planned work orders.

BABCOCK WANSON is leader in the field of the design and the installation of thermal oil heaters TPC and EPC (high outputs, service contracts on demand, compliance with environmental standards).

User advantages :
reliability and rugged long life construction ;
guarantee on both the burner and the boiler ;
efficiency, which can be higher than 92% over the operating range ;
investments and maintenance costs reduced ;
optimised heat balance, associates the high output of the boiler with very low thermal losses on the distribution system which means very high overall plant efficiency ;
very short response time, low inertia ;
optimisation of the thermal coefficient of transfer of the boundary layers ;
low pressure of operation normally no more than total system resistance (10 bar max) for high temperature

KING depots in the UK hold vast stocks of pre-owned steam boilers of varied manufacture from 250lb/hr

Through a training workshop and by providing a specialist range of precision bearings and maintenance-free engine components, Schaeffler UK is helping Triumph cut engine weight, friction and fuel consumption on its motorcycles.

Fifteen design engineers from British motorcycle manufacturer Triumph recently attended a training workshop at its headquarters in Hinckley, Leicestershire, organised by UK bearings specialist Schaeffler (UK) Limited. The objective was to learn more about Schaeffler