A non destructive method to detect the incipient fault in rolling element bearing

It is essential to have prior warning of incipient fault (s) in any critical equipment occurring due to vibration. Vibration monitoring is good nondestructive technique to detect the fault of machines at an early stage. Capturing vibration signature of machines at slow speed is a difficult task due to impact of low energy, mostly absorbed by the structural path and falls much below the cut off frequency of the normally available accelerometer. To resolve the issue, a systematic proce-dure has been developed. It has the facility to break the signal in different level, envelope capturing and finally convert to frequency spectrum. The system has been tested under various operating condition that suits to industry to diagnose the problem of bearing. The method can predict the problem very well at its inception