The advent of remote wireless condition monitoring technology and the increased focus on reducing operating costs is accelerating the industry’s move towards predictive maintenance. This maintenance strategy offers significant benefits over the traditional methods of either running to failure or scheduling preventative maintenance based on historical run times.
The continuous acquisition of pump operating data allows a predictive maintenance approach that will reduce operating costs by:
Determining pump health and understanding the critical factors that affect the reliability and continued operability of a pumping system is quintessential for moving into predictive maintenance space.
The wear ring is an important component in the overall pump design and the centerpiece for predictive maintenance. Calculating and trending this clearance in concert with specific vibration data will indicate the pump’s remaining useful life and answer that age-old question – will my pump make it to the next outage?