Which is the most effective Condition Monitoring Technique?

The best condition monitoring technique can only be determined when you know the answers to the following questions: What is the machine? Where is the machine? & What is it for? You then link that into the available budget and the risk that the ship owner wants to take/allowed to take and only then can the best CM technique for that specific application be chosen.

All CM techniques have their advantages and disadvantages. Where companies have chosen to do vibration monitoring and ignored all the others then it is most likely that they have failed to achieve very much. The companies that take an integrated and intelligent approach (answering the points above before choosing what to do) stand a much better chance of actually achieving something with CM.

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