Note: The first time you take a reading on a machine, you need to create the machine in the Augury platform. This can be completed on the Web Dashboard or on the Auguscope App. You only create the machine once. The next time you visit this machine to take a reading, you can navigate through the app hierarchy to pull up the machine.
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In the Auguscope app, you will bring up the machine and click on the blue start recording button at the top of the app.

The app will guide you indicating which bearing to take the reading on and the orientation of the sensor. The naming configuration of the sensor orientation varies depending on the type of machine.

You will place the sensor in the appropriate location, in the appropriate orientation and click the blue record button.

The Auguscope will take the reading in about five to seven seconds. Then the app will move to the next reading location and you can click the blue record button again.

You continue this process until you have taken all of the readings for that particular machine. Once you take all of the readings, you will click diagnose.

There will be a location where you can add notes to the analyst. For example, if you suspect a particular issue is present, these notes do not show up on any reports, but it is helpful information to relay to an augury analyst. Click send to Augury.

Best Practice: We do encourage you to take photos of the actual machine after you’re, done taking readings and use the Auguscope app to indicate where you took each reading. To do this, use the camera icon in the Auguscope app to take a picture and add a blue dot to the spot where you took the reading.

By indicating this, it will ensure that the next time you visit the machine, you take the reading in the same location or if another technician comes in and takes the next set of readings they too take the readings in the same location that you did.

In addition, its a best practice to use dot stickers on the machine to indicate where you last took the reading. This will enable you to know where to take the reading when you come back to take another reading on the machine or another technician. Doing this ensures consistency with the readings that are submitted for diagnostics.

Once the machine has been entered into the Augury system, the system will create a generic rendering for that machine. It will indicate the recording points where you need to take the recordings.

You will take three recordings for every bearing location. When considering where to place the actual sensor on the machine. Consider the following:

You want to record as close to the bearing as possible.

You do not want to take a recording on the fan cover, cowl or anything that would give off excess vibrations that are not related to an actual fault.

However, we can take recordings on cooling fins because they are a solid part of the machine casing. Be sure to straddle the sensor on the fin, make sure there is no rocking and if possible, mount the sensor between the fins.

There will be times where you cannot access a bearing. It may be an entire bearing or just a particular orientation for a single bearing. If this happens, you can disable the bearing in the Auguccope app, so that you do not collect a reading and it stops someone from taking a reading for all future recordings as well.

To do this in the Auguscope app, click edit and toggle on the ‘Disable point’. Click ‘Done’ By doing this, you will skip this reading during this reading attempt and for all future reading attempts.

If you encounter a machine where a reading was disabled on accident, you can always toggle off this setting and take the reading following the normal process.

We take readings on every bearing in all three directions with the Auguscope. You label each reading based on how you orient the sensor.
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For a horizontal machine, you will take a vertical, horizontal and axial reading on each bearing. The Auguscope app will prompt you to take the reading on the first bearing location in the vertical plane, V, then the horizontal plane, H, and then the axial plane, A.
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Vertical measures the up and down vibration of that bearing so you will orient the Auguscope vertically on that bearing perpendicular to the shaft of the machine.

Horizontal measures the side to side vibration so you will orient the auguscope on its side perpendicular to the shaft of the machine.

Axial measures the front to back vibration so you will orient the auguscope on its side in line with the shaft of the machine.
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Once you have taken a reading on all three orientations of the sensor of the first bearing, you will move to the second bearing and again take three readings.

You will continue this process of collecting three readings per bearing on a machine until you have assessed the entire machine. By collecting readings in all three orientations on each bearing, Augury, is able to get a complete picture view of the machine health and diagnose with a high level of accuracy.

Watch the video for specific examples of how to take an Auguscope recording on a horizontal machine.

The concepts of using the Auguscope on a belt driven machine are the same but the terminology is slightly different.

You will still take three readings on every accessible bearing location on a belt driven machine, but the direction of the sensor will vary based on the direction of the belt.

On a belt driven machine, on every bearing, you will take a reading in line with the belt perpendicular to the belt and axial to the shaft of the machine. Watch the video above for examples.

For vertically mounted machines you will still take three readings on every accessible bearing location on the machine, but the naming configuration will be slidely different. The Auguscope app will still guide you through which readings to take and how to orient the sensor.

For a vertical machine, we use radial one or R1, radial two or R2, and axial for the orientation of the sensor. Radial one and radial two refer to the direction of flow with the machine.

In general, vertical machines are pumps that move content from one side to the other. To determine the direction of the flow look at markings on the machine, the nameplate, or ask someone at the facility.

Watch the video for specific examples of how to take an Auguscope recording on a vertical machine.

All of the readings that you take on site are stored within the Auguscope app. We keep them within a subset called a session. When you reach a stopping point, like completing all of the machines in a building or moving to another facility, you need to submit this session to kick off the diagnostics process, and send the data to Augury.
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To do this in the app, click sessions on the bottom toolbar, click end, and then click generate report. This is what will trigger the full diagnostics and report that is sent to your email.

If you are on site and you forget to submit the session, the next time you open the app, it will automatically trigger the transfer of data to our platform and start the diagnostic process. For this to happen, the app has to be open and the device screen has to be unlocked.

The Auguscope app needs a good network connection to transfer data to our platform. But we understand that the machines that you take readings on might be in areas that don't have a good network connection, for example, a basement of a building.
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When the Auguscope app does not have a good connection for data transfer, you will see an alert that notifies you that you are taking readings in offline mode. In offline mode, the app works the same way. You can still add buildings, create machines and take readings to collect the data.
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You will notice that a pop up bar on the bottom appears to show a counter of data points that need to transmit to the platform when you have good network connectivity again.
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Until you are connected to a network, the data collected will be stored locally on your device. When you are back in range of a good network connectivity, the data will start to sync.
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For a data transfer to occur, the Auguscope app has to be open, the device screen has to be unlocked and have a good network connection. Do not log out of the app if you have pending data to upload.
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If you log out of the app, the data is lost and it is not recoverable. As a best practice, always ensure that the data is uploaded as soon as you have a good network connection again.
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