Vibration Analysis by Matlock Electric Co., Inc.

2780 Highland Ave.
Cinc, OH 45212
1-800-334-9548
Fax: 513-731-9646

Matlock Electric offers cost effective, comprehensive Predictive Maintenance Programs for rotating equipment. Our monitoring programs use vibration analysis to consistently identify maintenance issues before they become critical to a process, and typically provide our customer with a cost avoidance return on their investment. All service calls are followed with a clear and easy to use report on our findings.

Studies by Entek IRD have found that 15 to 40 percent of the indirect costs of a manufacturing facility are devoted to maintenance, with about 50 percent of that estimated to be unnecessary. Furthermore, almost half of all maintenance activity is corrective in nature, which is 10 times more costly than predictive maintenance activity. Simply by transitioning from reactive to predictive maintenance, an organization can easily take 10 to 30 percent of the maintenance repair and operations inventory cost out of the equation.

Benefits of Vibration Monitoring and Analysis include:
- Avoidance of production downtime
- Greater availability of systems
- Increased operational reliability
- Maintained ability to meet delivery obligations
- Avoidance of consequential damage to plant and equipment
- Detection of spot spots in machine design
- Prevention of catastrophic equipment failure
- More effective repair scheduling
- Lower repair and maintainance costs

Matlock Electric's Condition Monitoring Equipment

Entek IRD Datapac 1500

Vibration Analysis tools, in the hands of experienced Matlock analysts, have been determined to be one of the most accurate means of predicting maintenance needs and failure modes for rotating machinery. Matlock's staff uses the vibration data and years of experience to solve tough equipment problems in a cost effective manner.

The state of the art condition monitoring system utilized by the Matlock staff is Entek IRD's Datapac 1500. The Datapac 1500 is a full featured portable data collector/ analyzer that monitors the condition of equipment found in many industries.

The Datapac 1500 supports measurements in the following fields:
·- Acceleration
·- Velocity
·- Displacement
·- g Spike Energy
·- Temperature
·- Thrust or axial position
·- DC voltage
·- AC voltage
·- AdB, VdB
·- Phase (1x-99x)
·- Speed
·- Time synchronous waveforms
·- Amplitude vs. RPM
·- Startup/ coastdown FFT waterfall plots
·- Speed profiling plots

Click here to view the Datapac 1500 Technical Data Sheet.

Coupled with the Datapac 1500 is Rockwell's Emonitor Odyssey software.

Emonitor Odyssey Software

The latest version of Rockwell's Entek Emonitor Odyssey machinery information system provides a new comprehensive method of integrating and analysing machine monitoring data. Emonitor Odyssey offers expanded functionality and improved diagnostics, enabling the enhancement of machine productivity and the reduction of maintenance expenses. Odyssey integrates vibration, speed, process and many other types of condition-indicating data -- from a variety of monitoring technologies -- into a common database, providing a complete picture of plant health.

The Microsoft Windows-based software system may be used with portable data collectors, permanently installed surveillance or continuous monitoring systems.

Providing fast, accurate fault identification through a powerful array of diagnostic tools, Odyssey includes the ability to automatically recognise and exclude abnormally high or low data (known as 'outliers') from alarm statistics.

The software also has the ability to collect two-channel measurements simultaneously using the Entek Enpac handheld data collector. This allows for simultaneous acquisition of magnitude, spectrum and time waveform data, enabling operators to quickly corroborate findings and more thoroughly analyse machine conditions without the need for multiple software programs to integrate data.

Click here to view the Emonitor Odyssey Technical Data Sheet.

Contact us for more information regarding our Vibration Analysis program.