Bearing Inner Race Defect
Understanding equipment operation, components, and history is crucial for accurate vibration analysis and anomaly identification. Early defect detection, like the BPFi defect in bearings, is essential for effective corrective actions.
Knowing the equipment being analyzed is critical in a vibration analysis. Each machine has specific operation, construction and assembly characteristics that directly influence the interpretation of the data collected.
Understanding the operation, internal components, and history of the equipment allows you to more accurately identify anomalies and anticipate failures.
A common example of vibration-detectable bearing failure is the Ball Pass Frequency Inner race (BPFi) defect, which occurs on the inner race. This type of failure generates a high-frequency pattern in the spectra and is related to the contact of the spheres with imperfections in the track, and it is essential to know it to correctly interpret the signals and take effective corrective actions.
The important thing for us is to identify the defect at the beginning, and this has always happened here at SKF !!