What is ISO 13373-5- Diagnostic techniques for fans and blowers about?
ISO 13373-5 sets out the specific procedures to be considered when carrying out vibration diagnostics of several types of fans and blowers. ISO 13373-5 is intended to be used by condition monitoring practitioners, engineers and technicians and provides a practical, step-by-step, vibration-based approach to fault diagnosis. In addition, ISO 13373-5 gives several examples for a range of machine and component types and their associated fault symptoms.
The approach given in ISO 13373-5 is based on established good practice, put together by experienced users, although it is acknowledged that other approaches can exist. Recommended actions for a particular diagnosis depend on individual circumstances, the degree of confidence in the fault diagnosis (e.g. has the same diagnosis been made correctly before for this machine), the experience of the practitioner, the fault type and severity as well as on safety and commercial considerations.
NOTE: It is neither possible nor the aim of ISO 13373-5 to recommend actions for all circumstances.
Who is ISO 13373-5 - Diagnostic techniques for fans and blowers for?
ISO 13373-5 on vibration condition monitoring is relevant to:
- Vibration practitioners
- Condition monitoring practitioners
- Engineers and technicians
- Manufacturers of diagnostic tools
Why should you use ISO 13373-5 - Diagnostic techniques for fans and blowers?
ISO 13373-5 defines the procedures to be considered when carrying out vibration diagnostics of fans and blowers.
ISO 13373-5 is intended to be used by vibration practitioners, engineers, and technicians and ISO 13373-5 provides them with useful diagnostic tools. These tools include the use of diagnostic flow charts, process tables and fault tables. ISO 13373-5 contains the material that presents the most basic, logical, and intelligent steps that should be taken when diagnosing problems associated with these types of machines. ISO 13373-5 considers only the former, in which diagnostics are performed after an anomaly has been detected. ISO 13373-5 focuses on the use of flow charts and process tables as diagnostic tools, as well as fault tables, since it is felt that these are the tools that are most appropriate for use by practitioners, engineers, and technicians in the field. The fault tables present a list of the most common faults in machinery, as well as their manifestations in the vibration data. When used with the flow charts, the tables assist the user with the identification of machinery faults.
Overall, ISO 13373-5 is helpful as it provides guidance on the flow-chart and diagnostic process table methodology, it presents a structured procedure for a person in the field to diagnose a fault and find its cause. This step-by-step procedure aims at guiding the practitioner in the vibration diagnostics of the machine anomaly, to reach the probable root cause of this anomaly.
