by Alexander Rohring | Jun 10, 2020 | Blog
One of the best ways to see how online oil condition monitoring can help your business is by seeing how it helped others: In large vehicles, fluid leaks from any number of areas can cause severe damage and even catastrophic failure if they leak into and contaminate...
by Alexander Rohring | Jun 9, 2020 | Blog
Too often, faults develop far enough in wind turbine gearboxes that they require extremely expensive secondary damage that increases unplanned downtime for repairs. However, these faults could have been detected much sooner by online sensors finding and alerting...
by Alexander Rohring | Jun 5, 2020 | Blog
Understanding the advancements in online oil condition monitoring (OCM) is critical in establishing the value it can bring; Keep reading to hear about how we got here! Online oil condition monitoring has advanced a lot in recent years. Early systems relied on...
by Alexander Rohring | Jun 2, 2020 | Blog
Optical particle counting is a common technique used to monitor the health of equipment, but it has little-to no correlation to equipment health—read why! This test method determines the size distribution and concentration of particles in an oil sample by measuring...
by Alexander Rohring | Jun 2, 2020 | Blog
Research has shown that elemental and optical particle counting tests performed on oil samples do not provide clear insight on gearbox health. But why? When relying on wear debris data to make important decisions about maintenance of wind turbine gearboxes, it...
by Alexander Rohring | May 29, 2020 | Blog
Online oil condition monitoring technology makes a big impact on operators’ reliability programs. As technology advances, the value the sensors provide advances as well. Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) technology is an advanced form of...