Most equipment doesn't fail without warning. It fails because the warning was missed. In rotating equipment, that warning often lives in early changes in lubrication. Not in vibration, temperature or appearance of metal particles in the lubrication. By the time those signals appear, the damage is already underway. Lubrication condition is where you can intervene before any of those traditional warnings appear. Understanding What Causes Bearing Failures Bearing failure has many...

If you ever had a lubrication related bearing failure you need to have a look at the UE Systems OnTrak SmartLube System. The OnTrak...

One of the more interesting cases I worked on was when I took ultrasound readings on the bearings of a slow moving (about 9 RPM), large...