Engine vibration inspection

Increase the reliability of your testing by automation.

Challenge

The measuring the difference in engine vibration is difficult to analyse by an operator since the inspection is done visually with an FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) analyser. An operator suffers from fatigue and is less reliable.

For this application the required accuracy was:

• Tolerance: +/-100 micro meter

• Resolution: +/-5 micro meter

Solution

The solution is to automate the reliability testing that has been conducted manually by use of FFT analyser. The key point in this is to measure the amplitude on the surface of the engine and automatically generate the test result.

Added value

When you use automated engine vibration analysis with non-contact sensing and the use of “Smart Monitor Zero, it is possible to log the inspection data.

Furthermore the data is more reliable and objective since the system doesn’t suffer from fatigue.