Predicting Engineering Failure?

Many businesses have a need to keep their production equipment in operation continuously, to support round the clock production. Good machine maintenance is a key factor in ensuring that plant availability is high, but many businesses still operate a preventative maintenance regime, whereby equipment is routinely taken out of operation to allow maintenance, whether required not. This is wasteful of labour and spares, causes un-necessary downtime and can often introduce a fault to an otherwise healthy machine.

Condition monitoring is a technique that allows the implementation of a predictive maintenance regime. Continual machine condition measurements provide you with advance warning of failure conditions many weeks and usually months before any damage has even occurred. This allows you to focus your maintenance activities to failing machines only, optimising labour and spares and minimising downtime. It also prevents the introduction of faults to otherwise healthy machines: if it isn't broken - don't fix it.

Condition monitoring can also provide advance warning of critical failure. Often giving vital extra days that are needed to plan for emergency downtime and to obtain the necessary servicing equipment to turn a major failure with all the associated lost production time, into a minor one. Advance provides a number of innovative and low cost condition monitoring solutions which have been proven to deliver major savings on maintenance and dramatically reduce downtime and critical failures.

Medusa

The heart of the monitoring solution is the Medusa monitoring system. Capable of receiving monitoring information from both Nexus and microMeter monitoring units, the system provides a unified and integrated approach to remote condition monitoring. Operators have access to all historical data collected by either type of device across multiple site estates. Standard analysis tools such as time- domain, FFT and waterfall charts are available. Band extraction and trending are also provided and a sophisticated alarm system provides a semi-automatic means of diagnosing most site related problems. The Medusa system is fully managed and operated from within our 24/7 manned operations room. Access to the system is via secure remote network connections through our high capacity broadband system. We can also provide remote dial-up access to support your engineers in the field. Medusa is capable of exporting data in a variety of formats to support your reporting requirements. It can keep you informed of critical site events, alarms and activity by sending SMS messaging to any or all of your engineering staff.