Reliability-oriented maintenance pays dividends

Vibnode is billed as the ideal entry-level solution for online machinery monitoring.

Unscheduled downtime can tear great holes into a company's productivity and lead to a decline in operating results.

Therefore it is absolutely essential for machinery to be in top form.

The best strategy is "reliability-oriented maintenance" based on the monitoring of specific machine signals.

This enables operators to detect and eliminate problems early on before machine damage occurs.

With this strategy, service and repair only take place when actually necessary - and not when the system is down because damage already occurred, or when the calendar or hours counter says it's time for the next service run.

The benefits are lower maintenance costs, longer machine run times and increased productivity.

Vibnode is a new online monitoring system from Pruftechnik that supports precisely this strategy without being overly complex or burdened with unnecessary features and functions.

With its low up-front cost and modular structure that can be extended as required, Vibnode is the ideal entry-level solution.

Vibnode records the overall condition of a machine and in addition watches over individual components by monitoring the specific damage frequencies in a narrow frequency band.

In variable speed machines it even uses tracked frequency bands.

If a threshold value is exceeded, the operator is informed via the company network, e-mail or SMS, and the FFT spectra are recorded for damage diagnosis.

Vibnode runs fully independently and can be operated without a PC.

For analyses and storage, the collected data are transferred over the company network to the Omnitrend PC software, a platform shared by all Pruftechnik condition monitoring products.

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