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News Release from: Schaeffler (UK) | Subject: CNES Aquilla AE Pro
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 18 January 2008
Condition monitoring cuts downtime
CNES' Aquilla AE Pro acoustic emission monitoring system is a fixed system that is particularly effective at slow rotational speeds from 80 to 0.25rev/min.
The Praxis partnership between FAG Industrial Services (F'IS) and Corus Northern Engineering Services (CNES) is continuing to add value and prevent costly production downtime in many sectors of UK industry The partnership offers plant engineers and maintenance managers a comprehensive condition monitoring offering of hardware, software and services, including vibration monitoring, acoustic emission monitoring, oil analysis, thermographic imaging, training and consultancy services
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 12 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Praxis is delivering condition monitoring solutions including pharmaceuticals, food and beverage, paper and metal processing.
Ian Taylor, Business Development Engineer, Plant Condition Monitoring at CNES said: "We have the specialist bearing knowledge and vibration monitoring skills of F'IS coupled with the engineering know-how and toolbox of condition monitoring techniques and services of CNES".
"Praxis has also opened doors for CNES and F'IS into new industry sectors in the UK, particularly the pharmaceuticals and paper manufacturing sectors".
"Since the partnership began, in addition to supplying vibration monitoring hardware to external customers, Praxis has also installed F'IS vibration monitoring systems throughout Corus' steelmaking plants in the UK".
Praxis engineers have a portfolio of hardware and software systems for a variety of different applications and can provide support for the installation, commissioning, monitoring and maintenance of complete condition monitoring systems.
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This often includes an initial plant survey, followed by equipment specification, supply, installation, consultancy, data interpretation and trending.
"New and existing customers can benefit from a service offering to all sectors of UK manufacturing", said Dr Steve Lacey, Engineering Manager at Schaeffler (UK)".
"Whereas before, customers would have to deal with two companies for separate condition monitoring problems, they can now source everything they need - from acoustic emission to vibration monitoring and thermography - from a single source, safe in the knowledge that our engineers have many years of experience in the fields of both engineering and condition monitoring".
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Corus engineers have used condition-based monitoring to accurately predict its maintenance requirements and maximise steel making plant availability for more than 25 years.
CNES' Aquilla AE Pro acoustic emission monitoring system is a fixed system that is particularly effective at slow rotational speeds from 80rev/min down to 0.25rev/min.
Typical applications include large tilting vessels used in steel making, bucket wheel excavators, heavy cable reeling or pipe laying machines and carousel machines in production and food packaging environments.
As a further development, CNES has also introduced Aquilla AE Pro IMON, a semi-portable system for acoustic emission monitoring.
The system is suitable for use on plant that doesn't warrant a fixed system, but still requires more than instantaneous data collection.
Whether machinery rotates, reciprocates or oscillates during its operation, it relies on bearings or sometimes two plain surfaces rubbing together.
Over a period of time, metal is removed from these surfaces.
In the case of rotating element bearing failure, this can be sudden, with the bearing races grabbing the bearing housings or shaft and tearing the metal, causing damage to bearing and seal locations both on shafts and in housings.
The technology available within CNES' workshops can rebuild these surfaces and other damaged areas, such as stud holes, keyways and splines.
Proven welding procedures developed to match particular parent metal specifications, followed by finish machining to suit replacement bearings or to drawing dimensions can restore components up to 130 tonnes in weight.
Schaeffler's INA and FAG-branded roller bearings and linear motion products are well known within the power transmission, mechanical handling, construction, steel, quarrying, mining and paper industries.
It was in support of complex bearing applications in these industries that Schaeffler developed its portfolio of maintenance products and condition monitoring equipment under the FAG Industrial Services (F'IS) company.
F'IS manages all industrial services for Schaeffler brands worldwide.
The F'IS portfolio includes a range of vibration monitoring hardware, including FAG ProCheck, an online monitoring system that detects plant or machinery faults early, preventing costly breakdowns and reducing production downtime.
The system, which was developed in partnership with National Instruments, helps companies monitor vibration levels on critical rotating plant or machinery, including electric motors, drives, bearing arrangements, gearboxes, pumps, generators, ventilators, fans and excavators.
F'IS also recently released its FAG Detector III system, a handheld vibration and temperature monitoring and balancing device that now comes with RFID technology.
This enables automatic identification of measuring points on plant machinery and equipment, while eliminating operator errors and resulting in a more efficient data collection process. Request a free brochure from Schaeffler (UK) ...
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