While condition monitoring systems have obvious advantages to the manufacturing sector, other industries are now also benefiting from their use.Preventing maintenance problems using condition monitoring systems has obvious advantages to manufacturing plants. However, other sectors, such as the marine industry, are now starting to see the benefits of implementing similar vibration-based detection systems onboard ships.
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Monitran, a world leader in the development and manufacture of sensors for the measurement of vibration and displacement, has launched the VS0004, a complete condition monitoring and alarm module.
Fixed to a piece of plant machinery, the VS0004 can respond to a rise in vibration levels in a number of user-definable ways. The unit has two alarm levels, with the user able to set Alarm 1 between 1 and 50mm/s and with Alarm 2 capable of being set as a multiple of Alarm 1, either 1.5, 2, 3 or 5x.
Bob Pickard, Monitran
When we purchase a machine we accept that it will not last forever. The problem isn
Over the past 17 years, Management of Change (MOC) has received increased attention at chemical plants and refineries due to the promulgation of new OSHA regulations. Officially designated 29CFR 1910.119 Process Safety Management of Highly Hazardous Chemicals, the OSHA PSM regulations state that any time a critical component in an oil or chemical plant changes, a formal MOC program is required to ensure that the proposed change is made safely.
However, recent analysis conducted by Gateway Consulting Group, a specialist in the design and implementation of enterprise content management (ECM) solutions for chemical and petrochemical plant environments, notes that while plant owners are in compliance with OSHA regulations, their MOC processes are not necessarily efficient. [Ref. 1]
Evidence of poor efficiency includes:Long cycle times for MOC closure; The need for, and hiring of, temporary staff to
"What is actually the added value of maintenance?" is a frequently heard question in boardrooms the world over. Even though maintenance is often critically important, few maintenance managers are able to answer the question convincingly. Especially when they are asked to express the benefits in terms of economic value added or shareholder value - the language increasingly being spoken in European boardrooms .
For this reason Mainnovation developed the Value Driven Maintenance
SPM Instrument India has been awarded a contract for the first comprehensive installation of online condition monitoring equipment ever in an Indian paper mill. Emami Paper Mills Ltd in Balasore, India has selected SPM Instrument to provide equipment for continuous shock pulse and vibration severity measurements on critical parts of its latest paper machine.
With its two mills, Emami Paper is one of the major domestic newsprint manufacturers in India. The Balasore paper mill has a production capacity of 110 tonnes of writing and printing paper and newsprint per day. The purchase of another paper machine in Balasore will increase the daily production to 400 tonnes in all for the two paper mills.
The SPM contract is entered into as part of an ongoing investment plan to become the number one newsprint manufacturer in India. To reach that goal, a high level of production equipment availability is very important. After installation of the SPM equipment and when optimized, the monitored paper machine is likely to be the fastest in India.
Cost-effective predictive maintenance vibration monitor detects rolling element bearing failures and shaft imbalance conditions in four locations simultaneously.
The innovative efector octavis bearing condition monitor from sensor market leader ifm electronic is now available as a master unit which can monitor up to four seaparate locations. These new versions make predictive maintenance efector octavis even more cost effective.
The octavis central unit can also now be programmed via ethernet. The vibration pickups, which can be up to 30m from the central diagnostic, are made in stainless steel with a IP69K rating for arduous environments.
TOTAL E&P UK, one of the largest exploration and production subsidiaries of the TOTAL Group has installed a 10,000 point + CitectSCADA system to provide monitoring - with full dual redundancy - of the control and safety systems for the giant St Fergus gas terminal in Scotland. The Terminal plays a key role in supplying Britain
There are many sources of machinery health and production availability information available to an organization's maintenance and operations staff. Two of the most commonly used sources of information are scheduled inspection of machinery and condition monitoring.
In most cases, scheduled inspection of machinery has been managed through a plant
