Description
High resolution mobile phones with slow-motion recording capability provide an amazing resource for reliability professionals. We’ve already seen slow-motion mobile phone camera’s used in place of strobe lights to visualize and identify common faults like broken keyway’s, material build up on fans and more.
In this case study we will explore and evaluate the effectiveness of utilizing mobile phone video recordings for vibration analysis of rotating equipment to identify common machine health faults that previously required the use of hard-wired sensor technology in a non-contact method video post processing method. Several different examples will be used to clearly identify misalignment, imbalance, looseness, phase related issues, and more.
Learning Objective: Understand the power of mobile phone camera technology available to nearly every reliability professional as they already have the phone available as a tool.
Learning Takeaways:
- Understand how camera frame rate relates to fmax
- Understand how camera resolution impacts sample resolution for analysis
- Understand how lighting impacts post processing
- Best practices for mobile phone non-contact vibration analysis
Bio - Luis Sabido
Mr. Luis Sabido is the Customer Support Manager for ERBESSD INSTRUMENTS. Luis leads the team of specialists focused on delivering an exceptional customer support experience, while also providing training services to EI customers in the Latin American market. Luis is a seasoned professional with 4-Years of experience helping EI customers around the world Master their Machines Health. Luis has studied Physics Engineering, Astrophysics, and is currently pursuing a degree in Engineering Technology – Network Systems.
Bio - Steve Mottershead
Steve Mottershead is the Hands-on Strategic Change Director for Predictive Maintenance and Precision Lubrication. He has been Senior management in manufacturing, automotive, financial & industrial services since 1991. He has previously been a Mechanical Engineer for British Airways, Mercedes-Benz, Shell, AV Technology and now running CBM Partners; the UK’s leading Wireless Condition Monitoring company.
His main focuses are deploying Condition Based Maintenance and Reliability Centred Lubrication services, products and consultancy to international manufacturers, service providers and strategic partners. He works closely with Erbessd-Instruments in Europe, as a Master Distributor.
Steve is also a Trustee of The Cornelius Arts Foundation (Anglo-Frech); “Think-Do-Tank”, understanding the transformative power of art.