Machinery Troubleshooting

RITEC is famous for troubleshooting machinery problems particularly during start-up.

RITEC service teams can use a variety of tools to troubleshoot machinery problems.

Causes of Machinery problems may be induced by design, operation, installation/maintenance and/or wear and tear.

By using Portable Multi-Channel Parallel Data Acquisition Systems and acquiring data from existing sensors, through an online monitoring system, or by supplying the sensors (Accelerometers, Piezo-Electric Velocity or Eddy Current Sensors), RITEC can acquire advanced vibration data necessary for diagnosing machinery problems.

Run-Up/Run-Down, Shaft Centerlines, Orbits (filtered and unfiltered), Spectra, Full Spectrum, Time-Waveforms, Cross-Channel, Resonance/Critical Speed Testing, and various other measurements aid in identifying the causes and effects of the vibration problems.

Furthermore, RITEC, using its own in-house developed Rotordynamics Analysis Software (RIMAP), conducts rotordynamic analysis to study machinery dynamic characteristics and remedy chronic machinery problems.

RITEC uses rotordynamic analysis to identify: Critical Speeds, Mode Shapes, Unbalance Response, Deflection Shapes of Rotating Machinery and Rotordynamic analysis can be used to alleviate: Resonance problems, Sensitivity to unbalance, stability problems, as well as many other rotating machinery problems.

RITEC uses rotordynamic analysis to modify existing machines to overcome rotordynamic problems.

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Polar Plot showing Resonance

Orbital Plot showing Misalignment

Waterfall Plot showing Instability