Abstract

Reliable condition monitoring is crucial to successful maintenance operations in many industrial cases but adequate manpower and expertise to conduct proper monitoring is not always available. Suitable signal processing technologies can provide a considerable relief to this matter. Intelligent and adaptive systems can at their best detect the faults or even determine type and severity of the fault. Nowadays high-end technology for automatic monitoring is generally available at reasonable price, but many advanced methods are yet to be put into action. This paper discusses several methods which could relatively easily be built in to modern condition monitoring systems.