Vibration Analysis Services

All machinery seems to know when a holiday weekend is coming and inevitably decides to fail.

Even with the best maintenance practices, machinery is never reliable enough. Gain confidence in your machinery’ reliability through our periodic route collection. VSC personnel can periodically conduct vibration surveys on your equipment to identify maintenance problems well in advance of failure. We can use vibration analysis equipment to analyze the data on the spot, providing your maintenance team with immediate feedback on recent repairs.

Our software trends the data from survey to survey, notifying us of any changes in specific vibration characteristics. As the machinery condition degrades, we present options so you can resolve the problem when it best meets your schedule. Do not accept machinery failure as part of your maintenance program. The many advantages of vibration analysis allow you to be proactive and resolve your machinery issues before they become problems. Machinery reliability is well within reach. Let us show you the way.

For nearly forty years, Vibration Specialty Corporation has provided hundreds of customers around the globe with advanced Condition Monitoring programs at a fraction of its normal cost.

We have drastically cut the costs of these programs by teaming with our customers. We bring almost a century of expertise in machine condition monitoring along with advanced predictive maintenance hardware and software that relieve customers of the most daunting aspects of any program. Our customers need only provide the man power to collect the data. This simple shift in philosophy decreases program costs by 50-75% resulting in enormous savings for our customers.

Predictive maintenance programs always come at a cost. Often companies blindly bank on contractors to run their programs, damaging the budget and sustainability. If the program costs exceed its savings, it is not worth it. Too many have lost track of this with programs like expanding empires turning profit centers to hemorrhaging bureaucratic drains on maintenance.

Most of our customers have seen great maintenance efficiencies by establishing condition monitoring programs, however, they may have found it difficult to justify continuing some programs due to the tremendous ongoing costs. Our efficient and effective approach to machine condition monitoring has turned their maintenance programs around. We place our customers on the offensive against the slightest mechanical fault instead of them falling on their heels, inundated with machinery failures.

With VSC, a major advantage of vibration analysis is that you receive expert machinery diagnostics with minimal training required to collect the data. When in-house personnel are trained to examine this critical data, it comes at a tremendous cost. How effective will the results be? How do you continue the program when personnel move on? Training replacements magnifies the training cost and the learning cycle. Skills are rarely fully developed when personnel are not fully dedicated. Therefore, the program’ effectiveness is severely compromised, while the costs swell beyond the savings.

VSC has provided remote vibration services to over 500 plants throughout North and South America for over forty years. We have even analyzed data remotely for ships at the North and South Pole. All the data is promptly analyzed, reported and stored for future comparison. The service is provided by engineers and technicians with extensive field experience in machinery and vibrational analysis. VSC is dedicated to delivering its nearly 100 years in condition monitoring to rapidly identify and resolve all of your machinery problems. Expert machinery analysis is not inexpensive, unless you do it remotely with VSC.

VSC pinpoints specific faults within a machine.

Our experienced professionals evaluate each machine using different techniques, such as Traditional Vibration Analysis, Transfer Functions, Envelope Analysis, Resonance Testing, and Motor Current Analysis, to provide extensive machinery analysis on all customer equipment. Our technical vibration service reports thoroughly document specific problems by citing FFT Spectrums, Time Waveforms, Thermographic Images, Orbit Analysis, etc., allowing customers to thoroughly remedy every problem.

Startup/Acceptance Testing

VSC protects your investment by evaluating new or reconditioned equipment before you accept it from the manufacturer or contractor. Our analysis compares your equipment’ health to the accepted industrial standards to ensure you receive a quality product. In addition, we create a baseline to evaluate the machine’ future health. This allows the realization of improved productivity and cost savings. In addition, VSC can advise you on appropriate equipment specifications before any purchase.

Today’ emphasis on energy efficient motors with variable frequency drives has opened a Pandora’ Box of vibration issues. In the past, machinery was manufactured for specific operating speeds so it was simple to determine resonant vibration problems associated with the expected operating speed. Now the operating speed is between 0 ‚Äì 3600 rpm, which is fraught with potentially destructive resonant frequencies. For these type of machines, you cannot afford to skip the startup and acceptance tests, or you may risk the future condition of your business.

Startup/Acceptance Testing Advantages

• Diagnose equipment problems prior to purchases/warranty expiration/shutdowns
• Ensure reliable equipment during production
• Reduce operational costs
• Establish predictive maintenance baseline
• Preclude acceptance of deficient equipment

When accepting new or repaired equipment or during equipment outages, time and money are crucial factors. Often, corporations accept equipment thinking the warranty will protect their investment. This misconception leaves companies paying the ultimate price: lost production and unexpected downtime. Therefore, the exclusion of mechanical mishaps will prevent disruption of future production schedules.

Our periodic Motor Current Signature Analysis (MCSA) program provides a powerful, non-invasive method for identifying developing electrical and mechanical issues in AC induction motors before they result in costly failures.

By analyzing motor current patterns, we can detect faults such as broken or cracked rotor bars, high-resistance connections, air gap irregularities, and other conditions that can negatively impact motor performance and reliability.

Using advanced diagnostic techniques, VSC not only identifies the presence of these faults but also evaluates their probability and severity. Through routine monitoring and trending of key electrical signatures over time, we can determine whether a condition is stable or progressively worsening. This valuable insight allows maintenance teams to plan repairs during scheduled outages rather than responding to unexpected breakdowns. The result is improved equipment reliability, reduced downtime, lower maintenance costs, and greater confidence in the health of your critical motor assets.