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What to look for in a Condition Monitoring service
Clients often ask what to look for in a Condition Monitoring service and here at CLENG this is one of the most popular services offered, so I thought it would be helpful to outline the main things to consider in this area. One of the first elements...
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How to turn a Condition Monitoring program into Prescriptive Maintenance
As many of our clients in the food, power and automotive industries will know, providing preventive maintenance programs which include condition monitoring and prescriptive maintenance services forms a linchpin of CLENG’s current service offerings...
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Condition Monitoring Enables Efficient Manufacturing In The Cyber Age
How does condition monitoring enable efficient manufacturing and sustainability in the cyber age? Modern manufacturing has recently moved into what can be seen as its fourth generation. The Industrial Revolution of the late 18th century began the...
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The Future Of Condition Monitoring
Condition monitoring – vibration, thermographic, in-situ balancing, laser alignment and associated procedures – is an essential part of proactive maintenance, which is itself part of a chain of necessary maintenance. From the lower level of not...
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What is Condition Monitoring – your indepth guide and pdf
Condition monitoring is the process of monitoring conditions in machinery such as vibration and temperature to look for signs that a fault may be developing. Condition monitoring is more efficient than reactive maintenance since faults can...
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Condition Monitoring In The Automotive Industry
One area of engineering production that is constantly changing is the automotive industry. Innovations and a constant reliance on Research and Design means that new ideas to optimise production are always coming into use. As soon as one producer...
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What are the advantages of using an IRD ‘soft bearing’ balancing machine?
I’m often asked by clients what are the advantages of using an IRD ‘soft bearing’ balancing machine, instead of using a ‘hard bearing’ balancing machine. Both types of balancing machine are capable of dynamically balancing a work piece rotor. The...
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How can an IRD balancing machine improve your workshop productivity?
At CLENG Limited, one of the questions new clients often ask us is how can an IRD balancing machine improve productivity, and this is an area we have invested a significant amount of expertise over the last 20 years. Half of our business activities...
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What Is In Situ Balancing
What Is In-Situ Balancing? A piece of machinery, however simple or complex, relies on all of its components to work together in harmony and balance. To keep the machine running smoothly, and therefore at optimum output, it is essential to have the...
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What Is Laser Alignment
What Is Laser alignment? One of the most powerful tools in condition monitoring is laser alignment. After all, there is nothing straighter than a beam of light, so lasers are by far the best way of monitoring and testing the alignment of machine...
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What are the benefits of Lexseco core loss testing machines?
At CLENG, we’ve been official agents in the UK for Lexseco core loss testing machines for three years, and our clients in the rail, food and automotive sectors often ask what are the benefits of using the equipment. Lexseco core loss testing...
What Is Core Loss Testing?
Electric motors will all suffer from core loss at some point, but what is core loss? Coss loss is where the motor is not running at full potential and energy is being wasted. Preventing wastage of energy and resources is something that we all think...
What is Thermography?
Thermography is to machine engineers, in many ways, what x-rays are to the medical profession. It allows those specialists to see exactly what is going on where it is difficult or even impossible to see with one’s own eyes. Thermal imaging is a...
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How to turn a Condition Monitoring program into Prescriptive Maintenance
As many of our clients in the food, power and automotive industries will know, providing preventive maintenance programs which include condition monitoring and prescriptive maintenance services forms a linchpin of CLENG’s current service offerings...
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What Is Vibration Analysis
What Is Vibration Analysis? How does vibration analysis work? Vibration analysis is the process of measuring the vibrations of a machine’s moving parts, those under stress and the machine as a whole. Collecting and comparing the information with...
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