Condition Monitoring of Rotating Machines: A Review

An uninterrupted health monitoring of machine is essential in various applications where failure of machine leads to loss of quality control, productivity and safety against catastrophic failure. Condition monitoring of machine involves continuous assessment on the performance of rotating components i.e. bearings, gears and motors and anticipating the faults before it cause any adversity. Rotating machines are commonly used in the industry for different applications such as railways, pumps, conveyors, blowers, elevator, mining industry, etc. Condition monitoring of rotating machines has been an important task for technicians, engineers, and researchers mainly to enhance structural reliability in a real time. This paper presents an enlarged survey on the expansion and the recent approaches in the condition monitoring of rotating machines. In current scenario, condition monitoring has proved their ability for fault detection of incipient faults in mechanical machines and equipments. Several techniques such as vibration monitoring, acoustic emission monitoring, invasive monitoring, oil monitoring are available for determining the health of rotating machines but all these monitoring methods needs expensive transducers and sensors.