Condition Monitoring and Machinery Health

Rion have a unique lineup of instruments for monitoring machinery health. 

If you want to easily measure, monitor and analyse machinery vibration levels without getting involved in heavy analysis using specialist monitoring software, the Rion VA-12 can be easily used to check vibration levels against reference spectra. These spectra can be in terms of acceleration, velocity or displacement. The VA-12 is supplied with a really practical, separate accelerometer with a magnetic mount on a coiled lead. This portable instrument, with its bright display, is well-designed for industrial use. Measurement results, stored as a csv text file, and the wav files of the raw acceleration levels are stored onto a removeable SD card. The instrument display can also be stored as a bitmap. It’s really easy to collect useful, detailed vibration data with the VA-12.

If you need to collect vibration data wirelessly, perhaps from an inaccessible or hazardous location, you should consider the Rion RioNote. There are a lot of multi-channel vibration analysers on the market but the RioNote is unique. It is a programmable (Android) tablet-form multi-channel analyser which can be connected wirelessly to sensors/sensor amplifiers. There are a number of programs available from Rion for the RioNote but perhaps the most useful of these in this context is the Vibration Analyser application which replicates the functionality of multiple VA-12s. Alternatively an app can be developed that suits your exact measurement requirements. 

If you just want overall vibration levels from really simple and portable industrial vibration meters, the Rion VM-82 has a separate accelerometer with a magnetic attachment while the VM-63C is an all-in-one pocketable vibration meter – the user simply holds the tip of the integral accelerometer probe against the vibrating object to assessed.

Rion offer a great solution for a permanent, wired, multi-channel vibration monitoring system which connects to a normal PC via LAN or USB. The Rion UV-22 can be used to control up to 16 Rion UV-15 vibration channels. The system is controlled by a simple programme on the PC so, when the time arises to change computer, you can still use the Rion UV-22/UV-15 system and just re-install the lightweight software on the new machine. The system is totally modular so the channel count can be varied to suit your application.

If you’re not quite sure what you need, don’t hesitate to call. There are always acoustics and vibration professionals available during normal office hours to discuss your requirements.

If you already have sound and vibration instrumentation ANV Measurement Systems UKAS Laboratory (0653) calibrates all major manufacturers’ instrumentation with a standard 5 day turnround.