Benefits of Condition Monitoring

The many advantages of condition monitoring include:

• Prevent unplanned downtime: Through identifying issues earlier on before they escalate, condition monitoring helps prevent unplanned downtime. It can significantly boost productivity and help you avoid delays and disruptions.
• Boost cost savings: Emergency repairs often come with high costs due to the need for immediate parts and labor. Condition monitoring leads to significant long-term savings by reducing unplanned downtime and minimizing unnecessary maintenance. When there is an unexpected machinery failure, it can also cause damage to other systems, which can be expensive to repair. Condition monitoring prevents this from happening, effectively protecting other assets.
• Improve asset performance: Condition monitoring provides valuable insight into equipment performance so that adjustments can be made to maximize efficiency. It provides a record of which parts are running poorly so that efforts can be focused on improving them.
• Increase equipment life span: Through condition monitoring, a piece of machinery’s life span can be extended because it is repaired and maintained in a timely manner. Issues are addressed early, allowing for equipment to be maintained in better condition.
• Enhance safety: Machinery failures can be hazardous. Checking and repairing equipment helps prevent risky malfunctions that could pose a threat to employees. It also reduces the likelihood of accidents, ensuring a safer working environment.
• Improve decision making: Condition monitoring provides data that helps managers make better maintenance decisions, such as when to replace parts or service equipment. The data can be analyzed to predict when a machine will likely fail for more precise planning.
• Streamline maintenance: With data from condition monitoring, maintenance technicians know exactly where a fault lies — no need to check every single component trying to locate the defect. This accuracy allows the maintenance process to be completed faster, saving time.

How Condition Monitoring Works

Condition monitoring continuously gathers and analyzes data on machinery’s operational health to detect any signs of deterioration or potential failure. Here’s how the process works:

1. Monitoring system installation: This step involves strategically placing sensors on equipment to measure various elements such as pressure, temperature, vibration and more. The type and number of sensors depend on the specific equipment and parameters being monitored. Sometimes, this step may require modifying your existing assets to install the monitoring system hardware.
2. Data collection: Data is collected at regular intervals and transmitted to a central monitoring system, either wirelessly or through wired connections. The system can handle large volumes of information from multiple sources. With this data, you can begin measuring the performance of your equipment.
3. Data analysis: When the system is first implemented, baseline values are recorded under normal operating conditions. This information then serves as the benchmark for identifying any abnormal changes. Through condition monitoring, it becomes possible to evaluate performance and provide diagnostics.
4. Continuous monitoring: If the system detects an operational abnormality or the monitored parameters exceed a predetermined threshold, alerts are sent to notify maintenance teams of the potential issues. Technicians can assess the data to determine whether they need to take immediate action.

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Blanchard Machinery Company is your trusted company for condition monitoring services. We have been in business for over 30 years, giving us the experience to deliver the highest-quality products and exceptional expertise. Contact us today for more information about construction technology condition monitoring.