This facility located in the heart of the city of London is used by and held in high esteem by the public. Major refurbishment of the facility is planned for the future, which will involve complete redesign and replacement of all of the HVAC systems. New management was keen to assess whether the existing equipment, which they believed had been rather neglected in recent years, would last until the refurbishment. They wanted to know whether they needed to plan for the time disruption and financial cost of replacing it now, rather than run the risk of disruption to events in the facility were it to fail during the middle of an event.
Tests were carried out on all the major critical rotating equipment using the Faraday Predictive P100 Portable Equipment Health Assessor, which showed that there were no major underlying problems. A number of specific areas were identified where basic maintenance was required, principally to vee-belt drives, where there was significant wear and damage on the belts themselves, and where the tensioning was incorrect. The P100 system automatically identifies belt drive problems if the diameters and centre-centre distances of the two pulleys are entered into the equipment page.
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