MACHINERY DIAGNOSTICS & TROUBLESHOOTING

Assessing potential technical issues with rotating equipment prior to commissioning

In today’s business environment, misalignment or imbalance of rotating equipment jeopardizes plant integrity and can increase your operating costs.
Research shows that loads on mechanical parts (i.e., bearings, seals, couplings) are significantly increased as a result of relatively small amounts of misalignment or imbalance. These increased loads in turn result in elevated operating temperatures, noise levels and rates of wear, causing:
- Increased energy consumption
- Reduced operational efficiency
- Shortened component life (premature failure)

What is Machinery Diagnostics and Troubleshooting?
By providing machinery acceptance testing services, Bureau Veritas can assess equipment’s dynamic performance features. Measurement and detailed analysis of machinery vibration characteristics during commissioning provides invaluable insight into the existence of any intrinsic problems.

What are the key benefits?
- Provide confidence in sustained trouble-free use
- When inherent defects are identified, accurate diagnosis can be made, enabling the planning of necessary remedial work during the commissioning process and prior to acceptance of equipment by the operator.
- On the other hand, if assessment establishes that machinery is in an acceptable mechanical condition for handover, the vibration measurements taken provide a convenient baseline data set to support a future predictive maintenance (condition monitoring) program.