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Condition Monitoring

Condition Monitoring: Analysis, Planning, Recommendation, Implementation

Improve machine reliability, availability and integrity through predictive maintenance.

AVT can help, in ways that suits your needs, by:

• Training your own people in Condition Monitoring
• Supporting you, e.g. with troubleshooting & data analysis
• Carrying out all your Condition Monitoring for you

Condition Monitoring (CM) is an integrated modern approach to maintenance in capital-intensive process industries. CM techniques applied singularly or collectively to an item of plant, involve studying some aspects of that item during operation to detect a developing condition that might lead to premature failure, and then determine the cause of that condition. Consideration of these factors, together with plans for current and future duty, allow timely, planned maintenance which incurs minimum loss to profit and/or reduced maintenance spend.

As one of Europe’s leading specialists, AVT have the experience and skills to provide and manage effective CM solutions to international companies in the Oil and gas, chemical, power generation, paper, food and beverage, brewing, automotive, process and general manufacturing industries.

Value That We Deliver

Applying our sophisticated CM technology and expertise, we can identify underlying and developing failures, reducing costs and optimising availability and productivity, via the following.

• Fewer breakdowns as a result of proactive detection of impending failures
• Greater productivity through enhanced uptime
• Reduced costs through improved planning, maintenance scheduling and confidence to extend maintenance intervals
• Superior equipment performance by means of rapid diagnosis of machine inefficiencies and faults
• Prolonged machine life through optimised maintenance scheduling
• Higher product quality resulting from optimal machine performance
• Reduced energy costs through the identification of heat loss
• Increased plant safety through improved plant integrity
• Reduced or deferred capital expenditure through superior asset utilisation
• Reduced stores inventories

Typical CM Consultancy Topics:

• Equipment criticality audits
• Maintenance strategy development
• Condition monitoring equipment specification including remote & wireless solutions
• CM programme design and implementation,
• Routine machine monitoring, commissioning & acceptance testing
• Complex machine investigation & problem solving
• Turbo-machinery start-up/shutdowns & troubleshooting
• In-situ single & multi-plane balancing
• Lube oil analysis, for Residue Analysis, and resultant actions
• Infrared thermal imaging surveys 
• Ultrasonic acoustic inspections  
• Training courses tailored to your needs
• Component & Root Cause Failure Analysis
• Reliability studies.