WHY VIBRATION ANALYSIS?

DECREASE DOWNTIME AND INCREASE PROFITABILITY

Traditional maintenance methods are preventive - Components are replaced according to a fixed schedule whether worn or not. Traditional maintenance methods are also reactive, repairing components only after they have broken down.
Neither of these methods is ideal, although both are very common throughout the heavy industry sector, and both tend to sustain much higher costs than methods that use vibration analysis.

EARLY DETECTION OF MECHANICAL FATIGUE AND BREAKDOWN

All rotating equipment vibrates to some degree, but as older bearings and components reach the end of their product life, the vibration gets more and more intense and in distinct ways.
Continuous monitoring of equipment allows these signs of wear and damage to be identified before the damage becomes an expensive problem.

ALERT IS PROACTIVE

ALERT can help maintenance departments using reactive maintenance practices (fixing problems as they present themselves or when machinery is broken down). By using ALERT Services operations can move towards a proactive way of managing maintenance.

ALERT visits plants on a scheduled basis, collecting vibration data and performing detailed analysis of each machine. A report is then issued including suggested actions craftsmen can respond to. ALERT’s services are priced so that even the smallest plants can afford the transition from Reactive to Proactive Maintenance.