How do you measure whether your machinery is performing at its peak? It’s simple – by installingBently Nevadacondition monitoring sensors, unsurpassed in their quality & reliability. Six million sensors installed worldwide is a pretty good testament to what we offer. Our industrial sensors include hydro sensors, pressure sensors,proximity sensors, transmitters, velocity sensors and accelerometers and wireless conditioning monitor sensors.
Our founder Don Bently – entrepreneur, engineer and authority on vibration monitoring – built and nurtured the Bently Nevada product line using keen sensor technology. For nearly six decades, his sensing devices have kept watch over our customers’ mission-critical equipment, beginning with the emergence of eddy current proximity transducers and evolving into our sensors product line with a wide-ranging portfolio of proximity probes, Proximitor† sensors, eddy current proximity transducers – ideal for measuring rotor shaft position and vibration – and more.
To this day, our sensors portfolio continues to maintain Bently Nevada’s standard of excellence across an array of options that include industrial sensor accessories and components to help you protect and monitor your equipment.
Across the board, Bently Nevada's industrial sensors help you maintain your equipment giving you peace of mind knowing your system is monitored closely. Sensor technology is advancing, and with Bently Nevada you will have top of the lineasset management,minimizing unplanned downtimeandmaximizing production.
The vibration of a machine can tell us important information about its health, and the characteristics of the vibration can help us detect and diagnose symptoms before they become severe.
This blog focuses on:
- Basics of vibration
- Transducer types
- How to choose the best tool for you
Ourproximity sensorsare ideal for measuring rotor shaft position and vibration within the clearances of its fluid film bearings and deliver superior performance in harsh environments across a wide range of applications. The sensor technology family includes proximity probes, sensors and transducer systems (to detect the presence of acceleration, velocity and pressure) to monitor your system and minimize untimed shutdowns.
Bently Nevada industrial sensors will help reduce costs in all areas of your plantwide program - insurance, maintenance, unscheduled repairs. The sensor system can boost revenue through increased uptime and production quality.
We offerpressure sensorsfor many different applications. Fromhydro turbine and centrifugal pumpstoreciprocating compressor cylinders, we have a sensor for your machine. Our pressure sensors can detect both static and dynamic pressure, come with a long operational lifetime (over 50 million cycles), can operate in high humidity environments, and in the case of our200132– can support nine pressure ranges with variable, user-defined increments to really fine-tune your machinery diagnostics.
The Bently Nevada line of industrial pressure sensors have many different applications, from hydro turbine and centrifugal pumps to reciprocating compressor cylinders. All work and operate easly in high humidity and harsh chemical environments.
The evolution of our current velocity sensor and accelerometer line began with sensors that offered a self-generating moving-coil design used by geologists to measure movement in the earth’s crust. Today we still refer to “seismic” sensors in a nod to their origin. Today’s integrated accelerometers deploy signal processing circuitry for output signals using velocity rather than acceleration. Our experience and expertise developed over decades offers a selection of first-ratecasing-mounted accelerometers and velocity sensorswith a variety of models for specific applications.
Our efficient and rugged Ranger† Pro wireless vibration sensorprovides condition monitoring across a broad range of machinery in power generation, oil & gas, mining, pulp & paper, water & wastewater and other industries. This compact yet powerful wireless condition monitoring sensor greatly improves your ability to remotely monitor hard-to-reach and unsafe locations. An impressive battery life (up to five years in some configurations) also means increased protection for all of your machinery. While theRanger Prois compatible with many third-party software solutions, it is now fully integrated with Bently Nevada's flagship software:System 1machine condition monitoring softwarewhich allows for seamless, real-time, and fully customizable data.
When you need to know what’s going on with your hydroelectric generator – especially while it’s in operation – Bently Nevada has you covered with our family of provenhydro sensors. Our hydro sensorsrecord multiple variables – not just one – so that you can obtain a more accurate understanding of your machinery’s vibration issues. And with increased data and understanding comes the ability to more accurately diagnose a problem, and react accordingly avoiding costly downtime, misdiagnoses, and in some cases avoiding costly tear-down inspections that weren’t needed.
Bently Nevada’s industry-leading thrust andvibration transmitters, simply put, protect your critical machinery. Bently Nevada offers two types of transmitters: the990 Vibration Transmitterand the991 Thrust Transmitter. These compact yet durable transmitters allow you the ability to install them in small spaces with minimal clearance – where other transmitters won’t fit. In addition to our transmitters, we also provide the self-contained177230 Piezo Accelerometer,which guarantees comprehensive condition monitoring of your general-purpose machinery.
Our current portfolio of industrial sensor accessories offers a range of options from protectivesensor housings, junction boxes, and sensor mounting brackets to wiring, flexible conduits, and conduit fittings. We also offer a selection of cables, cable protectors, and more.
Bently Nevada industrial sensors and other products work best when they are protected with the right housing. We have a variety of housing options (proximity sensorhousings and velocity/acceleration sensor housings) as well as transducer cables and instrumentation wiring for all your accessory needs.
We even offer a range of test kits for system calibration requirements as well as kits for machinery simulations for research and development.
