Diagnostic Services

Machine Diagnostic Services: Peace of Mind is our Aim

Avoid unplanned downtime of industrial rotating machinery with Brüel & Kjær Vibro’s machine diagnostics.

Machine Diagnostic Services: We solve customers’ machinery problems with expert advice based on our knowledge of modern rotordynamics and decades of practical experience. Our Machinery Diagnostic Services (MDS) organization is recognized as an industry leader and a trusted source of deep knowledge on machinery behavior. Customized diagnostic service programs are offered based on your needs.

Our global Surveillance and Diagnostics Centers in three continents monitor the condition of thousands of wind turbines around the clock, evaluate the condition of the machines and produce an informed maintenance strategy.

The competence of our experts in condition monitoring and machine diagnostics also covers other industries, such as the oil and gas and other process industries.

Our capabilities include:

Machinery Malfunction Diagnostics
Rotordynamic Modeling and Design Consultation
Field Balancing
Remote Diagnostics
Alignment Services
Torsional Vibration Analysis
Piping and Structural Vibration Analysis
Predictive Maintenance (PdM)
Bearing Design Evaluation and Diagnostics
Shop Acceptance Testing
Field Commissioning Services
Root Cause Analysis and Corrective Action Determination
Post-Failure Analysis
On-site Data Collection and Evaluation

We provide an unbiased, independent perspective for all machinery, regardless of manufacturer.

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You can trust our objective recommendations, because Brüel & Kjær Vibro is completely independent of machinery and system manufacturers. Our experts in vibration diagnostics are part of the team for all our installations. Customers increasingly require us to diagnose measurements independent from the installed monitoring solution. This provides the basis for condition-based maintenance: Detect developing machine faults early so maintenance can be cost-effectively planned ahead of time and unplanned downtime avoided.

You can discuss machine diagnostics with our skilled specialists. The specialist engineers in our monitoring centers, our project engineers and on-site service teams are ISO 18436 certified (Level 3 or Level 2). Many of our clients particularly value this high level of quality and specialization in vibration diagnostics as it turns into huge savings at the end of the day.

You can work with an experienced pioneer: Brüel & Kjær Vibro has decades of experience in vibration measurement and was one of the first companies to offer customized monitoring solutions for wind turbines. We now have service centers on three continents for wind farm remote monitoring and diagnostics. So we can serve clients across all time zones 24/7.

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Diagnostic Solutions by Industry

Hydro Power

Solutions tailored to industry-specific monitoring needs Hydropower plant operators have been relying on the effective monitoring solutions from Brüel & Kjær Vibro for decades. We monitor hundreds of hydroelectric machines under base and peak load, in reservoir, run-of-the-river and pumped storage power plants around the world. Our solutions are based on decades of experience in [...]

Thermal Power

Monitoring high-speed machinery We have extensive experience monitoring nuclear power stations, coal-fed steam turbines, gas turbine generators and combined cycle plants, for both the critical machines and the balance-of-plant. Many of the plants include machine protection systems, condition and performance monitoring. Broad spectrum of application expertise Depending on the plant and particular use, identical [...]

HPI

Condition Monitoring for the HPI (Oil & Gas/Petrochemical Industry) Whether upstream, midstream or downstream, the performance, availability, and security of your machines are essential in the oil and gas industry and the petroleum-refinery field. Our condition monitoring solutions for rotating machinery play a key role here. LNG In general, the machine monitoring requirements in the [...]

Wind Power

Passionate about maximizing wind energy As turbines age, the risk of machine failure increases. The expense of replacing a single component can be enormous (think of a gearbox), but add to that labor costs and a crane at a site that's difficult to access. Maintenance expenses can reach up to 20-25% of the total levelized [...]

Diagnostic Solution Products and Services

VC-8000 Machinery Protection System

Vibration Sensors & Transmitters

Accessories & Spare Parts

SETPOINT® CMS Software powered by OSIsoft PI®

VIBROPORT 80 & VIBROTEST 80

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Latest Diagnostic Cases Studies and Applications

Vibroport 80

To save costs respectively increase the production volume of molds, the manufacturing time needed to be reduced.

Vibrocontrol 6000

Compact monitor used for monitoring small hydroelectric generating units

New Diagnostic Centre

A new Surveillance and Diagnostic Centre was recently opened in Houston, Texas (USA)

No. WTG – 30K

We provide a system that fulfils the diagnostic requirements and the expertise as a service.

Vibroport 80 analyses to optimise milling spindles

Problem To save costs respectively increase the production volume of molds, the manufacturing time needed to be reduced. This could be achieved for example by milling at a higher speed as well as by increasing the feed motion of all milling machine axes in the x-y-z directions. Accordingly, the unbalance force (due to the higher […]

VIBROCONTROL 6000® Compact monitor used for monitoring small hydroelectric generating units

The VIBROCONTROL 6000® Compact monitor as an OEM product for monitoring their smaller hydro generating units. The VIBROCONTROL 6000® Compact monitor is delivered to Andritz Hydro as an OEM product for monitoring their smaller hydro generating units. This vibration monitor proved to be well suited to this application since it has a lot of the [...]

New Surveillance and Diagnostic Centre in USA

Today over 5,000 wind turbines world-wide are being continuously monitored by Brüel & Kjær Vibro condition monitoring systems and this number is increasing rapidly. To meet this growing demand, a new Surveillance and Diagnostic Centre was recently opened in Houston, Texas (USA). Complementing the centre opened in Shanghai, China in 2012 and the wind competence […]

No. of WTG monitoring systems hits 30k mark

EXPERT CONDITION MONITORING OF WIND TURBINES Benefits of Condition Monitoring for wind turbines Driven by value added to assets, not alarms Maintenance expenses can reach up to 20-25% of the total levelized cost per kWh produced over the lifetime of the wind turbine.1 This large expense is heavily influenced by the reliability and quality of […]