Services
Personalized services that meet your individual needs.
At Red Wolf Reliability, we pride ourselves on our ability to provide our clients with personalized services that meet their individual needs, worldwide. We are experts in the fields of plant reliability and mechanical engineering, identifying opportunities to help improve your equipment’s efficiency and life cycle. Our reliability services exceed industry standards, with our reliability experts working with you in facilitating personalized reliability centered maintenance programs and are dedicated to improving overall operational efficiencies.
What sets Red Wolf Reliability apart is our multi-faceted approach to reliability engineering and vibration analysis. We use multiple disciplines and strategies to identify the best and most cost-effective solutions to your challenges. Our staff works to find the cause of the problem, not just treat the symptoms.
Our passion for excellence is what drives us to provide you with exceptional and professional services – that’s The Red Wolf Reliability Difference.
Conception and Design Services
Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
Often times doing a closed-form solution to solve for stresses within a system or component is too complicated or nearly impossible because of the complexity. Finite Element Analysis (FEA) aims to generate a computer model of the actual system or component which is broken down into many simple pieces.
Reliability Design
In working toward reliability design, the process of selecting the right machine for the job should not only allow for the work it is meant to perform, but also concerns for long-term, safe and reliable operation. Over-sizing can be just as detrimental to machine life as under-sizing.
Reliability Program Assessment
How do you identify maintenance priorities in your plant? How do you eliminate unnecessary repairs? Is your spares inventory up to date? These are just some of the questions the Red Wolf Reliability Program Assessment can answer.
Implementation & Installation Services
Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)
Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) is a tried and true maintenance optimization procedure that will bring cost savings by reducing unnecessary preventative maintenance strategies and implementing missing critical tasks.
Acceptance & Performance Testing
Are you commissioning new or rebuilt equipment? Our vibration analysis acceptance testing and performance testing is instrumental in ensuring your equipment has been installed properly.
Reliability Engineering
There is more to reliability engineering than just preventing Failures – at Red Wolf Reliability, reliability is about consistent dependability of not just your equipment but of your staff and your entire reliability program. For us, reliability means peace of mind.
Technical Field Services
Infrared Imaging
Vibration condition monitoring is an excellent tool for diagnosing mechanical and certain electrical malfunctions but has significant limitations in many electrical applications. Most all electrical components exhibit rising temperatures prior to failure, but it is extremely time-consuming and inefficient to use a single point temperature measuring device inside a complicated panel or switchgear
Modal Analysis
Modal Analysis (or Modal Testing) is the process of testing machine components or structures in order to obtain an understanding of their natural vibration behavior. Red Wolf Reliability works with the leader in Modal Analysis software, ME'scope VES by Vibrant Technology.
Operating Deflection Shape (ODS) Analysis
Operating Deflection Shape (ODS) analysis is a powerful tool we use to solve complex vibration related problems in rotating equipment and structures. Animations of the deflection shapes help visualize the problem. Our expertise results in properly identifying root causes as well as practical solutions.
Reciprocating Equipment Analysis Services
Our reciprocating equipment analysis evaluates both the mechanical performance and machinery condition to determine asset efficiency and economical operation. Red Wolf Reliability utilizes an array of measurements including vibration, pressure, ultra-sonic, and encoder data to analyze reciprocating machinery
Torsional Analysis
Torsional analysis is the study of vibration that affects the shaft line of rotating and reciprocating machinery. Excessive torsional vibration will reduce the life and efficiency of shafts, couplings, crankshafts and gears, resulting in excessive damage to the equipment.
Dynamic Balancing
When rotating equipment vibrates excessively, it causes stress that reduces component life and has the potential to cause catastrophic failure. Even with the proper predictive maintenance program in place, equipment can become unbalanced.
Tribology
Rotating machinery needs proper lubrication in order to function reliably and efficiently. Knowing the right location, the right time, the right type, and the right quantity of lubricant is imperative to your maintenance strategy that helps increase productivity, efficiency, and machine life.
Vibration Condition Monitoring
Condition monitoring is essential to the implementation of a successful predictive maintenance strategy. Periodically monitoring the "health" of your equipment decreases downtime and reduces maintenance costs.
Troubleshooting Vibration Analysis
Vibration analysis is used to help troubleshoot and detect early precursors to machine failure, allowing machinery to be repaired or replaced before the asset fails to perform its function. All rotating equipment vibrates, but as components wear or reach the end of their serviceable life, their vibration signature provides an early warning of the developing problem.
Custom Monitoring Solutions
Red Wolf Reliability is well practiced in developing systems tailored to fit client needs. These systems are highly customizable and can range from a simple data logger to a high end channel count protection system while utilizing accelerometers, proximity probes, RTDs, ultrasonic sensors, flow meters, pressure transducers, strain gauges and more.
Ultrasonic Inspections
Ultrasonic testing can be used in both contact and non-contact applications, which gives us great versatility. If a component can emit ultrasonic sound, we can detect it utilizing the correct methods.
Failure Analysis Services
Failed Bearing Inspection
Changing a failed bearing without determining a root cause leads to repeated failures. Pulling the bearing early enough in its failure stages so that a proper inspection can be doneis valuable to determining a root cause.
Root Cause Failure Analysis
Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) is a systematic way of reviewing all the evidence from a failure in order to determine a root cause that is manageable and prevent recurrence.