Tag
#reliability
2 topics across all disciplines.
Condition monitoring — knowing before it breaks
Why oil analysis finds things vibration cannot, what a rising bearing temperature actually means, how performance monitoring catches fouling that no sensor on the machine will show, and why the trend matters more than any single reading.
Battery and DC system integrity — the supply that only matters when everything else has gone
Why a battery with the right float voltage can still be dead, impedance trending against timed discharge testing, the unearthed DC system and the first earth fault, duty cycles that grew, and the healthy UPS with a bypass nobody ever proved.