Condition monitoring
Avoid the costs of production stoppages and know the condition of your machines with preventive and condition-based maintenance using vibration measurement.
Continuous machine monitoring
It is important to keep a constant eye on your machines at regular intervals so that you can avoid production stoppages due to breakdowns, for example.
Our online machine monitoring can detect when faults are developing, which we can see from changes in relation to the reference measurement. We can find the cause of the fault immediately and thus rectify it before it develops into something more serious.
The vast majority of faults are caused by wear and tear, but they can also be caused by dirt on bearings, seals, shafts, stuffing boxes or similar. By performing condition analyses at regular intervals, it is possible to predict the expected time of failure for the machine in question.
Make vibration measurement an integral part of your maintenance
We distinguish between performing condition checks and troubleshooting on the machines depending on the condition of the machine.
Condition check: During condition monitoring, we measure the machines at fixed intervals before the machine starts to vibrate, so that maintenance can be planned. In this way, condition monitoring becomes a form of condition-based maintenance, because the vibration measurements can be planned in advance.
Troubleshooting: When we perform troubleshooting, the vibrations have become so strong that you can feel the machine shaking more than usual. We try to find out where the problem originates from, and then we take steps to rectify the problem.
Get started with condition monitoring and CBM
Before we can begin measuring the vibrations of your machines in connection with condition monitoring, there are a few things that need to be clarified.
Some of the things we look at before we can establish an agreement on ongoing condition monitoring include:
- We must select which critical machines to measure, and we do this based on a risk analysis, a criticality analysis and FMECA.
- How often should we take measurements of the machine?
- Description of procedure
- Collect nameplate data and operating data
- Determination of measurement intervals
We can help you through this process once we have reviewed the construction process together.
Temporary vibration monitoring
It is also possible to install a temporary Online Condition Monitoring system if you suspect a fault in one or more of your machines.
It may be advantageous to install the system if you want to keep extra components in the machine for troubleshooting purposes. It may also be useful for taking vibration measurements in different operating situations over a longer period of time to see where the machine operates most optimally.
We have an online system in a flight case permanently installed in our vehicle, so we are prepared to install the system at our customers' premises for a period of time if necessary.
