Ultrasound World VI (2010)

Ultrasound World VI Program Abstracts

Presentation: Using Infrared and Ultrasound to Predict Upcoming Failure

Presenter: Chuck Peterson, President, Peterson Predictive Maintenance

Abstract: This presentation will review some Infrared and Ultrasound "finds" from the past years.  It will then try to show how these two technologies work together to predict an upcoming failure event. We will talk about greasing, alignment, vibration and then show how spectral analysis can assist us in confirming the most common problems that we find in the field.

During our discussion of the analytical process, we will use spectral analysis:

• to find the harmonic value of a point and then try to apply that to the bearing that is in question.
• to show, with overlays, possible shaft to shaft misalignment in a machine.
• to identify electrical discharge from a variable speed drive and then how to correct it.

There will also be a brief discussion about using your own senses to confirm what the technology we use is telling us.

All the information presented will be accompanied by sound bites and pictures to reinforce the presentation.

Bio: Chuck Peterson, President, Peterson Predictive Maintenance LLC
Chuck has been involved in the predictive maintenance field for the last 19 years. For 6 of those years he was involved in starting a predictive maintenance program for Oneok Hydrocarbons in Hutchinson Kansas.  There with the aid of his program the Mean Time Between Failures went from an average of two failures a month to about two failures a year.

Chuck is Level One certified in Infrared Thermography and Ultrasound Detection. He has also been trained in the specialized field of vibration monitoring and analyzing, with CSI Equipment and RBM-ware analyzing software.

Chuck has a wide range of customers with varying needs as far as predictive maintenance goes. At the present time Chuck has a customer base of about 400 clients ranging from Pest Control to Grain Elevators to Gas Plants all the way up to the support systems for Boeing IDS.

At the present time we are entering into a large project with the entire Front Range area of Colorado. We are now doing Predictive Maintenance in the Water Treatment and Waste Water Plants in Boulder, Longmont, Louisville, Erie, and Lafayette, Colorado. All of these cities have come on board because of the saving not only in costly repairs but in the energy savings that this technology can provide in today's "Green World".

Peterson Predictive Maintenance keeps a web page at www.petersonpredict.com.

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