Find the root cause before the breakdown.
CBM Consultants carries out on-site condition based maintenance surveys on rotating plant and electrical infrastructure — so you can plan the repair at a time that suits production, instead of reacting to a failure.
Reactive maintenance is the most expensive kind.
Reliability and efficiency of plant and equipment is paramount — and today's maintenance teams face skills shortages alongside rising pressure to keep production running.
Condition based maintenance moves you from reactive breakdown repairs to predictive maintenance. Regular CBM surveys give you the insight to predict and address potential failures before they happen, improving response times and cutting both production and maintenance costs.
As well as preventing downtime and equipment damage, CBM eliminates premature component replacement — you replace parts because the data says so, not because a schedule does.
What CBM saves you
- Reduced production downtime
- Lower repair and spares costs
- Less abnormal labour cost — overtime and contractors
- Improved quality control and safety
- Condition trends recorded over time
- Advance warning of equipment defects
- Root cause failure analysis
Four engineering disciplines, one maintenance programme
These are the four disciplines used internationally to establish an effective CBM programme. They are frequently combined — vibration together with oil analysis, for instance — to establish latent root cause failures long before a breakdown.
Vibration Analysis
Accelerometer data and spectrum analysis on rotating machinery to find misalignment, unbalance, looseness and bearing faults.
Learn moreIR Thermography
Certified thermal imaging of electrical panels, DB boards, switchgear and mechanical equipment to reveal temperature anomalies.
Learn moreLaboratory Oil Analysis
“Free flow” oil sampling analysed to laboratory precision — including full dielectric testing of transformer fluid.
Learn moreUltrasound Surveys
Detects what the ear cannot — leaks in pressurised systems, partial discharge, arcing and corona in electrical assets.
Learn moreOne site visit. Four CBM activities.
Rather than scheduling four separate contractors, a single CBM Consultants site visit can cover all four disciplines across your plant — each survey carried out to ISO standards, with certified reports on every fault found.
Vibration diagnostics
Absolute and relative vibration, compared with baseline data.
IR thermography
Thermal survey of electrical and mechanical assets.
Oil sampling
Free flow samples drawn and sent for certified laboratory analysis.
Ultrasound
Leak detection, partial discharge and bearing condition checks.
CBM buys you planning time
The internationally recognised P–F curve shows why early detection matters. P is the point at which a potential failure first becomes detectable; F is the functional failure — the breakdown. The earlier the root cause is detected, the more time you have to act.
When the data point is out of reach
Safety lock-outs, noise enclosures, height restrictions, moving cranage and restricted security areas all make manual vibration readings difficult or impossible while plant is in production.
Permanently mounted wireless sensors solve it. Readings are collected through a long-range gateway and viewed on a phone or desktop — daily if you want — showing the actual condition of your more critical equipment, including internal components such as bearings.
CTC products & supplies
We are an authorised distributor of CTC vibration analysis hardware — accelerometers, cabling, junction boxes, mounting hardware and 4-20 mA continuous monitoring, supplied and supported locally.
Let's look at your plant
Tell us what you run and where you are, and we will put together a survey scope that fits your maintenance programme.