MAINTENANCE LOG Editor’s Note: This article is based on one that first ran in the June 2013 issue of Maintenance Technology
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Methods For Monitoring Bearing Performance A range of traditional and advanced options are available to help you monitor your bearings. Don’t disregard any of them. Leveraging instrumentation to augment our human senses is very much a predictive maintenance best practice.
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he health of your bearings is critical to the health of your equipment and processes. With proper performance monitoring, imminent failures can be identified and corrected. Conversely, without a sound monitoring program in place and subsequent corrective actions not being taken when needed, a single bearing failure can result in full machine shutdown and countless hours of lost production.
Galen Burdeshaw Baldor Electric Co.
OCTOBER 2013
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