A warning to heed

Maintenance engineers know the benefits of monitoring vibration, however these are not always appreciated by their work colleagues and warnings can be disregarded with catastrophic results. According to Hansford Sensors, such a situation occurred recently where a conveyor pulley bearing had developed high levels of wear over a short period of time.However, it was decided to keep the machinery running until a scheduled maintenance date.

Consequently the bearing catastrophically failed, in turn catching on fire and resulting in high costs of damage to equipment and putting the lives of a number of employees at risk.