Condition Monitoring for Nigerian Industries: A Review

Abstract

This paper presents the necessity of adopting condition monitoring for machinery and plant maintenance, especially in the Nigerian public and industrial sector. It shows that the responsibilities required of maintenance schemes of our days goes beyond just repairing, it now involves ensuring availability, reliability and most importantly, financial profitability. Numerous maintenance works being performed and their financial costs can be avoided through the adoption of good condition based maintenance systems. Proper implementation of condition monitoring with adequate technical expertise and experience will guarantee good failure and integrity forecast as well as fault diagnosis. Condition monitoring thrives on consistent trending and analysis of certain measured parameters in providing insight into a state of fault or malfunction. Early knowledge of such faults is being highly useful in making or taking appropriate maintenance decisions. A condition monitoring program can have the same, or even much better, benefits for operation and maintenance as statistical process control is having for manufacturing.