What does Condition Based Maintenance mean in 2008?Condition based maintenance is a predictive equipment maintenance strategy. The condition of machinery/equipment is measured in order to assess whether they may fail during some future period, and then taking appropriate action to avoid the consequences of that failure. By doing the right maintenance at the right time rather than just operate a calendar based maintenance regime can have significant positive impact on your profit. Classification societies have now recognized the potential for reliability based maintenance approach and have started to adapt their requirements and introduce a condition Monitoring Notation alongside the traditional planned maintenance requirements. Instead of inspection and opening up equipment Class societies will increasingly accept, trending of vibration, performance monitoring and evidence of other non intrusive condition monitoring methods as the basis for inspection and survey. The unnecessary work of opening good machines can be avoided, labour costs and spare part consumption goes down. The process of doing this monitoring is Condition monitoring. Condition monitoring is a maintenance process where the condition of equipment is monitored for early signs of impending failure. This can be done automatically with the use of instrumentation which includes, but is no limited to, technologies such as:
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Contact-free ID tags load the instrument with all measureing point data.
Special transducers for shock pulses and vibration assure accurate measurements.
Speed data are necessary for condition evaluation. Speed is measured by contact, or optically from a safe distance.