Vibration Monitoring

Vibration sensors are used to collect vibration data levels on rotating equipment to detect mechanical faults before equipment failure. Vibration monitoring sensors are key parts of condition monitoring programs using vibration data collection and analysis for machine health monitoring. Excessive vibration can indicate potential machine faults including imbalance or misalignment.

By detecting problems at an early stage, Wilcoxon vibration sensors enable condition monitoring teams to plan repairs, perform maintenance, reduce unplanned downtime, provide advanced warning of bearing wear, extend equipment life, and more. Wilcoxon sensors are your vibration monitoring solution for all types of rotating equipment.

Wilcoxon vibration sensors are used to detect faults, identify wear, prevent damage, and avoid costly repairs on mining equipment used in the Australian harsh and hazardous mining operations.

Vibration analysis and diagnostics are a critical part of diagnosing and protecting important equipment such as conveyors, motors, pumps, fans, gearboxes, generators and draglines. 

Safely monitoring vibration on machinery operating in hazardous oil and gas operations, including offshore, petrochemical, refineries and chemical is always a priority. Condition monitoring engineers use vibration analysis to detect if there are any signs of mechanical problems, monitor machinery health, and identify early warning signals of faults and potential damage to vital equipment.

Wilcoxon's range of intrinsically safe sensors are designed for high-temperature environments and are ideal for use in oil and gas applications including the protection of compressors, vibrating conveyors, fans, motors, pumps, gearboxes, chillers, blowers, and turbines.

For power plant generation operators, avoiding outages and providing constant power supply is critical. To keep power plants operational, the equipment must be reliable.

Wilcoxon vibration sensors are used by condition monitoring teams to provide advanced warning of component wear on power plant assets. Condition monitoring engineers depend on vibration analysis to establish baseline, trend and early detection of machine faults, plan for repairs, and optimise maintenance outages for motors, pumps, blowers, cooling towers, compressors, fans, and low frequency turbines.  

Revenue loss is critical when your pulp and paper mill is not operating. Wilcoxon vibration monitoring sensors are used by maintenance and reliability engineers to monitor and identify vibration of machines, provide early warnings of faults, and avoid costly repairs due to machine failure and breakdowns. Excessive vibration often is an indicator of imbalance or misalignment. Identifying such problems before machines fail is a priority in the pulp and paper mill market.

Typical equipment in need of vibration monitoring solutions for pulp and paper applications include motors, pumps, fans, dryers, paper machine rolls, compressors, drying cylinders, calendars, chippers, couch rolls, gearboxes and winders.

Early identification of mechanical problems on machinery in cement manufacturing is important.

Wilcoxon vibration sensors are used by condition monitoring engineers to collect data and detect faults on cement production equipment used for grinding, crushing, material transport systems, ball and roller mills, and material separators including belt drives, fans and blowers, air compressors, motor bearings, kiln rollers, and vertical / horizontal mills.

Monitoring the health and condition of machines in machining operations, through vibration analysis is critical. If machine tools fail, processes throughout the operation can stop, leading to unplanned shutdowns, unscheduled downtime, and decreased revenue. Wilcoxon vibration sensors are used to monitor the vibration of high and low speed machining tools. Vibration sensors will detect if there is a developing problem and find faults early throughout the manufacturing process.

Monitoring bearings and spindles using Wilcoxon vibration monitoring is key in machining applications such as CNC, milling devices, gearboxes, motors, pumps and cutting machine tools. 

Rail operations and critical components must function correctly to be safe and efficient. Continuous maintenance and monitoring of rail car wheels and rolling stock is vital. Wilcoxon vibration monitoring sensors have a long history across many rail customers worldwide. Condition monitoring engineers rely on vibration sensors to detect failed wheel bearings, identify wheel problems, mechanical faults, and component wear. Rail industry condition monitoring engineers use vibration sensors to schedule maintenance or repairs cost-effectively, analyse rail infrastructure life, avoid expensive repairs to operate consistently and safely.

Rail industry applications that use vibration measurement to monitor the condition of rail components include rolling stock, wheel bearings, wheel drive motors, diesel engines, gearboxes, roller elements, power units, and generators. 

Water and wastewater treatment plants require 24/7 monitoring of pumps and motors. Wilcoxon vibration sensors are used by condition monitoring engineers as part of their predictive maintenance program on water and wastewater machines.

The Wilcoxon vibration sensors are durable and are used to establish baseline, trend, and early warning of pump problems, and detect faults at remote pumping stations. Water and wastewater vibration monitoring sensors protect direct drive pumps, freshwater pumps, sump pumps, vertical pumps, motors, pumps for filtration systems, dealkalizers, demineralisers, and effluent treatment systems. 

Wilcoxon Sensing Technologies design engineers have been responsible for many advances in piezoelectric accelerometers, including the development of the first underwater accelerometer.

From concept to production, Wilcoxon excel in providing reliable, high-performance sensing and monitoring systems for Defence and maritime applications. The Wilcoxon range of underwater accelerometers are designed for continuous submersion and exposure to 650 PSI of water pressure.

Food, dairy, beverage processing equipment require early identification of equipment component problems and wear. This is key to avoid unexpected equipment failure and maintain strict continuous production requirements. Wilcoxon vibration sensors with stainless steel housing are ideal for food, dairy, beverage production plants that require vibration monitoring solutions that withstand frequent washdowns and constant cleanliness as part of food, dairy, beverage processing regulations and requirements.

Typically, food, dairy, beverage processing equipment require vibration monitoring solutions for fans, fillers, motors, pumps, slow speed rollers, conveyors, cookers, air compressors and cappers.

Quality control is vital in pharmaceutical production. Condition monitoring engineers understand the critical role of equipment for process control and consistent quality levels throughout pharmaceutical production cycles. Wilcoxon vibration sensors data helps condition monitoring engineers detect faults, provide early warnings, and avoid important equipment failure.

Pharmaceutical vibration monitoring applications relate to mixers, motors, pumps, vacuum dryers, weighers, bottle washers, cappers and fillers, conveyor belts, fans, feeder, gears and gearboxes.

Condition monitoring engineers face great pressure to avoid unplanned outages and expensive costs on unscheduled repairs. Providing an early warning of fault conditions and avoiding catastrophic damage can be achieved by measuring low level vibrations which helps to identify problems. Vibration diagnostics are used to determine the root cause of problems and establish a baseline of wind turbine health.

Wind power applications and components where vibration monitoring is used to collect operational data for predictive maintenance to identify operational problems and faults in the early stages include, gearbox conditions, bearings, turbines, main shaft, and tower sway.