From the last several months, we started to get familiar with terms like "Work from Home" or "Study from Home" due to the effort organized by most governments around the world to stop the Covid-19 virus spreading in the community.
Web meetings, online classes and web seminars become quite popular these days.
Now we can also see in some countries that people can see their doctor from home, through the web and can also get online medical prescription.
Furthermore, testing engineer now also started to monitor their running test remotely from home.
What else?
Can we monitor the health of our machine remotely from home?
The answer is YES, we can.
Remote monitoring for health of the machines has been developed for many years. Thanks to the rapid development of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), the health condition of rotating machinery is allowed to be monitored and analysed remotely from miles away, and even from our home.
Not just remotely, the monitoring can even be done continuously. This will allow the maintenance team to react promptly and make decision quickly to be able to accurately diagnose the problem root cause, to schedule machine downtime even earlier in order to align with production schedule, and also to avoid further and even more catastrophic damage to the machine.
Do you have very critical machines around the world, and can't afford to have down time?
Do you need to send someone to machine site to collect data periodically, like once a month or once every two weeks?
Do you have limited number of maintenance engineer?
If your answer is YES for those questions, then why don't we think from different point of view.
Instead of collecting data once a month or once in two weeks, why don't we collect data every day, or even few times in one day, depending on machine operational status?
And instead of sending our maintenance team to the machine site, why don't let the systems collect the data automatically by themselves, where we can access, monitor and analyse the data from any place in the world?
Then, why can't we monitor the health of our critical machines from home?
ONEPROD EAGLE
EAGLE is ONEPROD’s easy-to-deploy continuous monitoring system for condition-based maintenance.
EAGLE system eliminates wiring, meaning that we can easily instrument more of our critical machines.
EAGLE system offers outstanding performance, ensuring optimal process reliability with minimal maintenance costs. This new smart wireless solution enables early fault detection through analysis of dynamic vibration signals.
EAGLE sensors automatically acquire vibration signals (including time waveforms and FFTs) on one or three vibration axes, together with temperature data.
The machines are kept under close watch. Smart enough, EAGLE system also automatically triggers measurements if the vibration levels exceed predefined threshold limits. Signals of up to 16 K-samples are transmitted wirelessly, for accurate and targeted diagnosis of all kinds of faults on all types of rotating machinery.
Right from the design phase, the materials used were selected to meet detailed and demanding specifications.
With ATEX Zone 0 certification, EAGLE system offers appropriate solutions in places where wiring is costly or too complex.
A true alternative to manual data collection, EAGLE enables automatic measurements to be taken safely in extreme conditions.
EAGLE system offers a proven smart solution for wireless communication capable of operating alongside other networks used in industry, such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Wireless Hart.
The communication quality is guaranteed using smart algorithms to avoid interference with systems in the unit’s environment!
EAGLE system uses the 802.15.4 protocol which guarantees safe conditions for people, facilities, and security of data.
ONEPROD MVX
MVX is a multi-channel real-time monitoring system that enables the onset of faults to be detected early, thus providing peace of mind for industrial operators.
The smart measurement and processing functions built into ONEPROD MVX are used to collect the highly qualified information required to monitor and diagnose your most critical machinery.
With ONEPROD MVX, kinematic complexity and the variability of operating conditions are no longer an issue. With 8 to 32 channels within the same sized instrument, ONEPROD MVX can receive vibration, electrical, oil or process information, and adapt to your mode of condition-based maintenance.
The system can be extended virtually to several hundred channels via communication interfaces with PLCs.
MVX can detect and capture transient sub-millisecond phenomena over 100% of the signal. Time signals are recorded using a pre-trigger on all relevant channels so that the event can be analysed retrospectively. Its real-time processing capabilities make it possible to:
capture and record a transient phenomenon on a turbine for subsequent analysis
control a rolling mill based on its vibration behaviour.
MVX offers an unrivalled solution for the monitoring of low speed shafts with a smart Shock Finder indicator. Abnormal impacts on shafts turning at very low speeds (from just a few rpm) are detected early and fully automatically.
Real-time management of variable operating conditions enables MVX to escalate data required for analysis and allowing comparison over time.
MVX will notify you in real time of any event requiring your intervention, by e-mail, text message or digital output.
The stored data, associated with operating conditions, is highly qualified: no false alarms.
NEST Software
NEST is a predictive maintenance software suite helping to know if maintenance actions need to be scheduled through the monitoring of rotating assets health condition.
Through the whole process, focus has been given to the ease of use: intuitive machine setup, guided analysis, and ease of access to the automated reports.
Relying on a unique know-how and 30+ years of experience in vibration analysis, data collected from wireless sensors and processed through Artificial Intelligence systems like the Accurex™ are guiding the user through his daily tasks.
Its flexible software architecture allows for the display of one to multiple factories in a single cloud interface.
If you are looking for predictive maintenance information that is clear, concise and easy to understand, NEST Software provides exactly that, for everyone involved in maintaining industrial machinery in operational conditions.
Intuitive and resolutely visual, it makes the assets’ health condition available to staff at all responsibility levels, regardless of prior expertise. Reports are instantly accessible from anywhere around the world, via an ordinary internet connection.
The machine setup module allows any maintenance operator to easily set up vibration measurements.
The machine is described in a very easy way using a simple drag and drop tool. By entering kinematic information (power, rotation speed, and so on) about the machine, the configuration to be used with the FALCON portable data collector’s automatic diagnosis system can be generated automatically.
For any other machine, the only additional step required is to select one of the measurement point templates supplied with the device.
Hundreds of diagnostic parameters are created in no time, providing an efficient and reliable monitoring of all critical assets. No vibration engineering skills are required.
NEST is the most productive vibration analysis software available on the market.
In addition to the full range of conventional analysis tools, the users is literally guided through his analysis thanks to a set of innovative tools such as: the Health Matrix display, the bearing Defect Factor™, the Shock Finder™ technology for low-speed shafts, the HarmoniX™ quantifier, and the Accurex™ Artificial Intelligence engine.
The analyst module also includes powerful features for the most demanding users such as the merged spectrum display and capabilities of post processing & replay on history.
In nowadays challenging environments and increasing objective for costs reduction, the ease of access to the information becomes crucial into the decision making of the maintenance process.
With the NEST Dashboard interface, all assets can be monitored remotely through a single interface, with data coming from one or multiple distant sites, and from different data source: portable, wireless, or real time monitoring systems.
Fully compliant with the new IT requirements in terms of cybersecurity, the NEST Dashboard is ideal for centralized diagnostic architecture, and offers an easy access to your machinery status through any mobile support.
Thinking of monitoring your critical machine remotely?
Contact us today!
