I`m looking information about Vibration Analysis Equipment, I`m trying to start a Vibration Analysis Program and I want to know which is the best equipment in this area, I´m looking equipment to these differents kinds of uses:

Diagnostics of bearings

Diagnostics of mechanical defects of machines – unbalance, misalignment, resonance, looseneses…

Operating machine balancing

Alignment of machine foundations


I`ll appreciate if you could send me some information about it, or websites where I could look for them

You could send some information to escampos@aya.go.cr or to ecamposch@gmail.com

Thanks,

What are your constraints? Budget? Size of plant, #of pieces of equipment, personnel, etc... These are huge factors for PdM. If you're looking at machinery diagnostics apart from PdM then you would want equipment suited where you only analyze problems and have a person capable of performing diagnostics then a RTA or similar full capabilities analyzer may be for you. For a small plant PdM programme you can look at a number of vendors each have multiple program capabilities (small to large):

Vendor warning from me as I'll sell you one - but, you can perform a search or look at the various dot com's such as SKF, DLI, Conditech, CSI, GE or Bently Nevada, Commtest and a number of others. I think most reputible vendors in the discipline will give you fairly good and fair advise even if that advise is someone else's product is better suited for your needs. Most are knowledgable of others products as well as their own and most concerned for your needs over the dollar.

Sam,

I respect your experience and professionalism and would truly love to believe your assessment of product OEM’s.

My gut, however, tells me two things: one; you are a very special salesman that everyone considering a purchase of Condition Monitoring systems should have in front of them and two, unless things have changed dramatically in the past five years you are dead wrong with your assessment of OEM salesman!

The next time you hear a CSI, SKF or other guy recommend a sales prospect buy a Rockwell or other OEM hardware/software unit as opposed to their own due to a unique application, let me know so I can fly a pig instead of a plane. Hopefully it would be cheaper.

Speaking of Rockwell I find it curious you didn’t mention them in your reply. Once upon a time IRD (Entek-IRD) and CSI were the first companies mentioned when referring to the industry. I worked for IRD, Entek-IRD and Rockwell for 21.5 years. Have they fallen off so badly they have become a non-entity not worth mentioning?

If so, it is too bad and sad.

Gary Forsythe

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various dot com's such as SKF, DLI, Conditech, CSI, GE or Bently Nevada, Commtest and a number of others.

Hello Gary, I don't speak for everyone nor can. The "number of other" attempted to include all. And I have recommended someone else's equipment to company ABC and they bought company's XYZ product. There's an esteemed sales rep I'm sure you know from SKF and that used to be with IRD that's a very knowledgable guy that I'm sure would want you to have the right product for your application. Some want to make the sale and will tell you anything but I would say that you would rather someone buy X product than buy yours and be unhappy with it and you. Sure we all want to make a buck but some things are more important than money and it is true there are some things money can't buy. Thanks, I've spent more time writing this probably than it would have taken to list everyone=he-he!!!!!!from WV!!!!!!!!!!!

I`ve worked for 7 years with Entek, CSI and SKF. All of them have good/decent products with a lot of features, but at the end of the day my personal opinion is: "what is really important is data quality". For me, CSI offers the best data quality compared to the other ones I mentioned (I´m talking about peakvue), and gave me outstanding results in the past (this is just what I think, lot of people won´t agree I know).

If you need to cross a couple of emails about Predictive Maintenance and stuff can email me.
Se habla español !

Hey Gary,
I can speak for my company in saying that we do actually live up to Sam's standards in trying to understand / solve the application or problem first and sell equipment second. (maybe that's why we are smaller than some of our competitors! ;-) ) I won't name names, but if you see a company discontinuing products, charging enourmous sums for upgrades and cutting back on tech support, it usually means they are moving into a different business and are trying to gouge their existing client base as much as possible before leaving the scene....

Estaban
I am currently an owner of both a Commtest VB3000 and a DLI DCX data collector, there are reasons why I own both of which I will not go into in this response. What I can tell you about these two companies is the support is exceptional and the quality of the data collected on both is very good. I will not mention names of the first two but these two listed data collectors are my third and forth data collectors, when I purchased them vendor support was my main and first consideration.
I would highly recommend that you talk to each of these companies prior to making a decision they both are more concerned that you have what you need other than what they have to sell you. After the fact both will take care of your issues, problems and concerns, they have for me.

Regards,
Todd Jeppesen