Sort Your Assets by Defect Type
Creating an asset database may be the most difficult and most important step in creating your Ultrasonic Condition Based Monitoring (CBM) program. Always remember that your CBM data is designed to answer one simple question, “Is It Okay?” Then go about sorting your assets into three categories.
- Non-trendable defects
examples: Leaks, steam systems, electrical inspections, general troubleshooting
- Trendable defects
examples: Lubrication, certain electrical and steam inspections, bearing condition monitoring
- Defects that require dynamic signal analysis
examples: Slow speed bearing defects, things that don’t rotate or don’t rotate 360°, some electrical defects
Creating these three categories of defects prepares you for the next step of CBM Program creation; database setup and survey generation.
Tip provided by: Allan Rienstra, SDT Ultrasound Solutions
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