| Machinery preventative maintenance is paramount | | | | internal problem causing a vibration from |
| in today's factory. A machine going down can be | | | | destroying bearings, internal or exterior parts by |
| catastrophic to the assembly line and many times | | | | an automatic shut down and/or a warning light |
| specialized parts are not even available. Often | | | | alerting the team that there is a major |
| such catastrophic failure or damage to a piece of | | | | problem.Machinery of this type is much to |
| machinery can be avoided thru early warning | | | | expensive to risk to a faulty switch or power |
| detection of the problem. Sometimes sensors do | | | | problem so the warning light should be lighted |
| no pick up every problem or fail. We always hear | | | | using electromagnetic induction technology to |
| about faulty lights in airliners when the aircraft has | | | | charge a capacitor instead of the lights working |
| to return only to find out that a light was out. In | | | | off a battery or power source.Currently there are |
| machinery some warning lights go on, if their light | | | | some nifty micro-flashlights being used which you |
| goes out and others show nothing and then when | | | | can buy which use a similar technique and are |
| there is a problem no light?Most machinery give | | | | available thanks to the Everlite Flashlight |
| off tell tale signs premature of the failure whether | | | | technology research lab. These smaller flashlights |
| or not a light is warning available or not. A really | | | | work by shaking them for about thirty seconds |
| good mechanic, ship engine room technician or | | | | and shine for about 6 minutes and they shine |
| factory maintenance expert can tell when things | | | | quite bright since they use a very bright LED light. |
| are not running right, but not all. I propose a | | | | Here is a link to this home use flashlight: vibrational |
| vibrational warning system, either with an | | | | warning lights can be used to monitor from long |
| automatic shut off or a light, which shines into the | | | | distances, whether the equipment be a short or |
| operations room like a beam from a pin-light night | | | | long distance from view. Additionally these |
| vision pointer or construction high tech surveying | | | | warnings systems have hundreds of application |
| level. This can be done by shining the beam onto | | | | for portable system where mainstream power |
| a mirror connected to the warning light, which is | | | | grid energy is not available. Think on it.Lance |
| bolted to the base of the machine. By early | | | | Winslow - Online Think Tank forum board. |
| detection we can prevent a bad mounting bolt, or | | | | |