Listening to Machines: Vibration Analysis and Condition Monitoring

Deep End Era. Engineering with Sankalp · Oct 28, 2026 · 55m

At two in the morning, the vibration alert on a gas injection compressor trips amber, and rotating equipment engineer Bongani Dlamini has to decide whether a seventy-micrometre reading means imbalance, a rub, an unstable bearing or a cracked shaft. Episode one hundred and four teaches the three languages machines speak: how much they shake, at what rhythm, and when in each revolution. We meet Don Bently's eddy-current probe that watches a shaft without touching it, the accelerometer that hears a bearing's tiny clicks, and the API 670 rules that separate protection from diagnosis. We build a…