Energy losses often sit quietly in the background of even well-maintained sites and are, more often than not, hidden in pipework, above ceilings or behind panels. They don’t trip alarms so they go unnoticed, but they do steadily drive up costs and emissions. Here, we’ll look at five common culprits and how thermography can help...Continue Reading

* Morpheus, The Matrix “The best Vibration Analysts and Condition Monitoring Engineers combine solid academic foundations with extensive hands-on experience. Over years in the field, they’ve encountered countless real-world faults, recognising patterns not only through AI and data, but by working directly with failed machinery and driving reliability improvements through targeted, practical actions.” Dr George...Continue Reading

How Big is a Micron? The human eye can only see something that’s a minimum of around 40 – 50 microns!.   If you take your pen, put a small dot on a sheet of paper, that measures around 60 microns and a human hair is between 50 & 120 microns thick Microscopic Micron Contaminants and...Continue Reading

In today’s industrial landscape, machine condition monitoring services are becoming indispensable. They help organisations predict equipment failures, minimise downtime, and enhance overall operational efficiency. The market comprises four primary types of Condition Monitoring approaches: independent CM companies, CM divisions of machine or bearing manufacturers, CM companies that also perform machine repairs, and internal CM departments...Continue Reading

Teltonika provide all of our router needs.  They have produced an article around an installation we have had operating successfully for 5 years in the field: https://teltonika-networks.com/use-cases/transportation/4g-router-for-predictive-maintenance-of-the-woolwich-ferryContinue Reading

Effective lubrication is critical to a long machine life and must be one of the first things to get right after precision installation. Lubrication 5-rights Right PRODUCT/QUALITY Right PLACE Right AMOUNT Right QUALITY Right TIME When addressing the Product/Quality aspects of an existing lubricant program we often come across challenges associated with miscibility. “Miscibility is...Continue Reading

We are proud to announce CBM Partners has become the UK distributor for Hamar Laser Instruments. Hamar invented the first laser alignment system nearly 50 years ago.  With over 29 US and international patents Hamar Laser Instruments Inc. remains at the cutting edge of laser alignment technology, solving alignment problems from very simple shaft alignment...Continue Reading

Three good reasons to combine… As an engineer, I have spent many years studying and researching ways to improve the reliability and performance of industrial machinery. One of the key areas of focus for me has been on the value of combining condition monitoring and lubrication. In my experience, these two practices can work together...Continue Reading

You MUST please act on the instructions below to ensure that your systems will continue to work after the upgrade and so that you can benefit in all the exciting improvements.    These newest upgrades will have features that we are sure everyone will benefit greatly from. Some of these include: Machine Learning Models can...Continue Reading

Automatic Lubrication Systems / Centralised Lubrication Systems are designed to apply lubricant in precise, metered amounts over short, frequent time intervals. Labour constraints and/or the physical location of lubricating points on a machine can make it difficult to manually lubricate the points. This, combined with the convenience and confidence of automated systems, makes such systems...Continue Reading