Dynamic Visual Analysis Service
Service Overview
Dynamic Visual Analysis is a non-contact diagnostic service that records video footage of machinery, supporting structures, and connected components under actual operating conditions. Utilising a motion magnification camera system, our service team records movement across multiple points within the visible system simultaneously. This provides a broader view of vibration behaviour than measurements taken at isolated locations.
The recorded video footage are then processed and magnified at selected frequencies, allowing subtle motion patterns that are not visible to the naked eye to be observed. Specific areas within the image can also be examined for frequency, displacement, velocity, acceleration, and phase, creating a detailed visual representation of how individual components move and interact during operation
When to Use This Service
This service is best for situations where machinery or structural vibration is difficult to locate, interpret, or communicate using conventional observations alone. It is particularly useful when vibration involves multiple connected components or changes under different operating conditions. Consider Dynamic Visual Analysis service if one or more of the following issues comes up.
- Machinery experiences complex, excessive or unexplained vibration.
- Recurring vibration problems persist despite previous corrective work.
- Conventional vibration measurements do not clearly reveal the source of the problem.
- Structural resonance or excessive movement is suspected.
- Looseness, weak supports or abnormal movement may be affecting the system.
- Relative movement between machinery, foundations, piping or connected components needs to be examined.
- Multiple locations must be observed simultaneously during operation.
- Intermittent or transient movement needs to be captured and reviewed.
- Operating vibration behaviour needs to be clearly visualised for engineering evaluation.
Key Benefits
Clear visual information will make complex vibration behaviour easier to interpret, evaluate and communicate. We help on-site maintenance team investigate vibration-related problems with greater confidence and make better-informed decisions about the appropriate response. Explore the following key benefits of the Dynamic Visual Analysis service below.
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Clearer identification of vibration sources
Visualising movement across the machinery and surrounding structure helps distinguish where abnormal vibration originates and how it travels through the system.
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Faster investigation of complex problems
Multiple components and measurement areas can be examined simultaneously, reducing the time needed to investigate machinery with complicated or unexplained vibration behaviour.
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Improved understanding of component interaction
Relative movement between machinery, foundations, supports, piping and connected components becomes visible, revealing interactions that may be difficult to recognise from individual measurement points.
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More confident diagnostic decisions
Visual motion patterns combined with measurable vibration information provide stronger evidence for evaluating suspected looseness, resonance, structural movement and other vibration-related conditions.
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Better-targeted corrective action
A clearer understanding of the affected locations and movement patterns helps maintenance teams direct corrective work towards the probable source rather than treating only the visible symptoms.
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Easier communication of technical findings
Motion-magnified videos make complex vibration behaviour easier to demonstrate to engineers, maintenance teams, contractors and management, supporting clearer discussion and coordinated decision-making.
Applicable Equipment & Systems
Dynamic Visual Analysis service can be applied to a wide range of operating machinery, structural components, and connected systems where movement can be captured within a clear field of view. It is particularly suitable for evaluating how equipment and surrounding components behave and interact under actual operating conditions.
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Rotating Machinery
Electric motors, pumps, fans and blowers, compressors, turbines, generators, gearboxes and centrifuges.
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Machinery Assemblies
Motor-pump assemblies, motor-fan assemblies, coupled machine trains, belt-driven equipment, skid-mounted equipment and packaged machinery systems.
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Structures and Foundations
Machine foundations, baseplates and skids, support frames, structural steelwork, platforms and walkways, and equipment mounting structures.
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Piping and Connected Systems
Process piping, pipe supports and hangers, ducting, valves and connected fittings, flexible connections and expansion joints.
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Reciprocating and Cyclic Equipment
Reciprocating compressors, piston pumps, engines, mechanical presses, screens and feeders, and other cyclic machinery.
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Building and Facility Systems
Chillers, cooling towers, air-handling units, mechanical ventilation systems, building services pumps and rooftop mechanical equipment.
Applicable Industries
This service can be applied across the following industrial sectors.
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Oil, Gas and Petrochemical
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Power Generation and Utilities
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Water and Wastewater
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Marine and Offshore
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Manufacturing and Process Industries
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Data Centres and Critical Facilities
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Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences
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Building Services and District Cooling
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Rail and Transport Infrastructure
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Engineering and Maintenance Service Providers
Speak With Our Reliability Specialist
Talk to our specialist about your machinery or structural vibration concerns. Get in touch with us via the form below and assess whether Dynamic Visual Analysis is suitable for your application and the next appropriate step.
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