Mobile Phones have become a tremendous productivity tool allowing users instant access to a plethora of information. Within the manufacturing sector phones are being used to log lubrication, submit work orders, adjust inventory, and much more.
As these mobile devices are being designed and delivered to consumers with higher processing power, more memory, and a variety of connectivity options we are seeing mobile devices replace the traditional vibration data collector, laser alignment system, infrared thermography camera, video vibration analysis system, oil analysis system and more.
This paper will research trends within the machine condition monitoring, predictive maintenance, and condition monitoring industries to evaluate current mobile phone technology, and its impact on machine health monitoring specifically vibration analysis, energy consumption, airborne ultrasound analysis, laser alignment of rotating equipment, dynamic balancimg, video vibration analysis, oil analysis, and work management.
The goal is to show a strong trend toward adoption of mobile phone and phone apps to perform the above related activities and show a strong trend toward the replacement of antiquated single purpose data collecion devices with mobile app based devices that are capable of improving productivity within this field.