Augury Best Practices

Elevate Your Installation: Smart Solutions for Sensor Stability
Hi folks. I'm Chris, Augury's Field Operations Delivery Lead 🖐️ On my first Halo Sensor installation as a field engineer we were installing sensors in mostly horizontal positions. I learned on day 1 that holding the sensor still and from a ladder was proving to hurt more than anticipated. With the adhesive we used at the…
Improving Machine Health Through Lubrication Best Practices
Proper lubrication is a critical and fundamental component of any company’s maintenance and reliability practices. Applying the correct lubricant on the correct machine at the correct time and in the correct quantities is a vital step in ensuring proper machine health within a facility. A robust machine health program can…
FAQ: How Do I Perform Maintenance on the Augury Equipment?
Ah, this is a frequently asked question that I'm excited to address. Proactively maintaining the program is key to ensuring long-term success for your site. In the realm of Maintenance, just like the changing seasons, there will be occasions when batteries need replacement, nodes require troubleshooting, or an Endpoint…
Unlocking the Potential of Smart Maintenance: Empowering Your Team for a Data-Driven Future
Let's talk about smart maintenance - it's all about making our work easier and preventing equipment breakdowns. Let's dive into how you can drive change at your facility. Here's the thing: when everyone knows the importance of the sensors and what they do to make our jobs easier, they're less likely to accidentally knock…
** Tonganoxie's Augury program **
Hello, fellow community members! I have a few questions that I'd like to discuss, but before we dive in, let me introduce myself. I'm Jeff Meyers, one of the three Reliability Business Unit Leads (and yes, we had to come up with a new acronym - RBUL) at the recently established Tonganoxie Kansas Hill's smart factory. Now,…
Pair Augury with other Technologies for Superior Results
Vibration Analysis is often referred to as the cornerstone of a condition monitoring program. Similarly, we believe Augury should be the cornerstone technology - a must-have which can be supplemented by other technologies based on your needs. The majority of the time we can tell you exactly what is wrong with your Augury…
Make Sure Augury Users are Setup for Rapid/High Confidence Anomaly Alerts
To maximize the effectiveness of an Augury program, ensure that everyone on the team is signed up to receive both Rapid and High Confidence anomaly alerts within the Augury platform. While all anomalies are analyzed by Augury’s expert vibration analysts for final review, receiving Rapid and High Confidence anomaly alerts…
Always log ALL maintenance activities (PMs, etc)
In the last several best practices we’ve discussed how important context is to our analysts and algorithms. This week we’ll focus on maintenance activities. When maintenance activities are performed, whether it is simple maintenance such as lubricating bearings or major repairs such as replacing an entire compressor, it is…
Provide Details Regarding Failure Events to Help Augury Improve
Machines talk, we listen. But sometimes we’re speaking different languages. Not every type of failure mode a machine experiences will manifest itself in our data sets. These are some of the most common reasons Augury may not see evidence of a failure in the data: The failed component doesn’t rotate or impact the rotating…
Always Report Changes to Machine Information fields
Similar to last week's Best Practice article, this week focuses on ensuring accurate information is fed into our algorithms and analysts so they can return the most accurate diagnostics. Rather than data from the hardware, this time let’s consider the machine information fields. Near the top of the machine page, there is a…
Always Report Changes to Endpoints
At Augury we pride ourselves on providing accurate insights into the health of your machines. Those insights are enabled by our algorithms, the experience and knowledge of our Vibration Analysts, and the experience and knowledge of our customers. All three rely on accurate inputs and the free flow of pertinent information.…
Provide as much machine information as possible to get the best analysis possible
An important aspect of Vibration Analysis is frequency identification which requires an understanding of the forcing frequencies of the machine. “In vibration analysis, a forcing frequency refers to the frequency of an external force that is applied to a vibrating system. This external force can be a periodic input, such…
Reevaluating Augury Monitored Machines Time Based Maintenance Plans
Once an Augury program has been implemented at a facility and has gotten to a mature state, it's important to consider reevaluating any past machine health strategies that may have been implemented, such as time-based PMs, that involve replacing components at a certain interval. Of course, we cannot eliminate the need for…
Have a Champion for the Augury program
The likelihood of a facility's successful adoption of the Augury solution is increased significantly if we enable someone (or multiple people for larger facilities) to be the "champion,"- a leader and coach for the Augury program. Moving towards becoming data-driven with your maintenance program is an undertaking that…
Respond to All Alerts Promptly
The Vibration Analyst team wants your machines running as smoothly as possible. To do that, we need to: ensure that machine health statuses are accurate mitigate the risk of fast-developing failures You can help us meet these goals by making it a priority to answer the questions we ask. Vibration Analysts at Augury choose…
4 Steps to Get New Augury Users Up To Speed Quickly
As roles change at the site, new Augury users need resources to enable them to utilize the valuable machine health information in the platform and optimize internal planning to avoid costly breakdowns. Here are some basic steps to follow for new Augury users: Get access to the platform. A site user with Admin access can…
Level Up your Vibration Analysis Skills With an Analyst Platform Training Session
Although having vibration analysis skills is not necessary to achieve success using Augury's wireless solutions, who doesn't like learning a new skill set for free? Augury gives you full access to the analyst platform where all of the historical raw data and feature trends are stored and can be analyzed. Augury RSM's…
Use Bookmarks to Highlight Memorable or Noteworthy Events on the Machine Page
The bookmarks feature allows you to bookmark any significant event in your machine’s timeline and track its impact on your operations. This information is incredibly useful for building a database of significant events, machine wins or learnings that can be shared across your entire organization. By using the bookmarks…
Include your work order/request number in the Augury repair log
Augury provides an optional “work order #” field in the repair form for your benefit. While repair and fault details are critical for accurate equipment history and diagnostics, it is also recommended to record the work order number from your CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System) into the Augury repair form for…
Educate the Entire Team So Augury is Not Being Utilized in a Silo (Not Just for Maintenance!)
Educate the broader team at your facility about what you want to accomplish with the Augury program. The more people who understand the goal, the higher likelihood of success for the program. People are less likely to accidentally knock off a sensor if they know the importance of what the sensor is capturing and how it…
Make good use of the "wins" that occur with the Augury program
A typical win is an event where Augury successfully identified a machine health issue ahead of an unexpected failure AND the on-site team took action before it failed. These types of events are automatically posted on Augury.com under the Success and Impact tab. For each win, we will collaborate to quantify the win's…
Trigger Analysis Manually by Logging an Observation on the Machine Page
While having the latest predictive maintenance technology on your machines is phenomenal, we certainly do not want to lose the "boots on the ground" perspective from the people working on and around these machines daily. Logging an observation at the machine page automatically triggers your assigned Vibration Analyst to…
Providing Repair Context
When logging a repair in the Augury Platform, it is beneficial to both the user and Augury to provide as much detail as possible. In the repair tool, users are given the opportunity to insert repair context and even attach a file, and Augury recommends both. In the "Set Repair Context & Details," the user should provide a…
Making Augury Part of the Daily Workflow
Teams who get the most out of their Augury program incorporate machine health data and insights into their daily meetings. Sharing this information ensures the entire team is aware of any changes in monitored equipment and will promptly log responses to any unaddressed alerts in the platform. To drive the best possible…

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