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A little help with the planning a "condition monitoring solution" can save a lot of time and money.
As we said before "The concept of strategic condition monitoring is quite simple":
The types of mechanical faults which can occur on a given machine are well known to your maintenance personnel. What they need is, first: a straightforward message that a fault is developing, and second: an indication of its severity. The question is: What characteristics do we need to measure to find the targeted fault and how often?
As usual however, the devil is in the detail!
It is important to answer the following questions:
What exactly should we monitor?
What exactly do we need to measure?
How often must we measure?
How many measuring points do we have?
How good is the access to the measuring points?
How often do we need to measure?
How long will it take a trained man to measure the points?
What is the annual cost of collecting good reliable data by hand?
What is the cost of installing and maintaining an online system to collect data automatically?
Is there a case for measuring some machines online and others offline?
Is there a case for measuring a minimum online and then following up manually for more in-depth analysis?
If you tackle these questions truthfully and diligently and if you are familiar with a few basic methods and technologies it is very unlikely that you will end up with a bad solution.
We would be happy to provide assistance with our experience in this process.