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News Release from: Proviso Systems | Subject: vbOnline surveillance system
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 12 July 2007
Surveillance system eases maintenance
Online condition-based monitoring systems can help reduce lost production and overall cost of maintenance.
Everyone agrees that remote access to predictive maintenance systems can conveniently increase plant machinery uptime, and increase overall businesses profitability So why then are only 37% of condition-based monitoring systems connected online?
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 27 Feb 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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With ever tightening manufacturing processes and costly time-based maintenance programs, ensuring the functional reliability of critical plant and equipment is a considerable responsibility.
Used as part of a predictive maintenance programme, online condition-based monitoring systems can provide increased convenience, and help reduce lost production and overall cost of maintenance.
Until now the required investment for these systems has been out of the reach of many.
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This is about to change with the launch of Commtest's new vbOnline system.
The results of a recent report of Condition Monitoring Systems presented at the Engineering Systems Design and Analysis (ESDA) Conference held in Manchester, UK show that the majority of respondents cited both reducing the number of unscheduled breakdowns and saving money as their primary reasons for implementing condition-based monitoring.
Yet, interestingly, the report also found that 63% of condition-based monitoring systems are still not connected online.
John Cochrane, General Manager of Commtest, expects that awareness of an improved benefits-to-cost ratio will increase interest in online monitoring systems.
He explains that "Competition, cheaper components and better design are driving down the cost of online systems considerably - by as much as two thirds - which makes justifying the investment to management a whole lot easier".
"Keeping a machine or an entire plant operating 24/7 at optimum efficiency and in good working order is an exacting responsibility".
"Maintenance engineers in particular have to pay acute attention to machinery condition to prevent costly unscheduled production downtime".
"Increased implementation of predictive maintenance systems industry wide reflects this", says Cochrane.
Commtest specialises in developing affordable and easy to use vibration analysis solutions, including the VB series of products.
The company has invested heavily in developing online and remote vibration measurement and analysis equipment, and is launching the latest developments in its vbOnline surveillance system.
It is a flexible modular online monitoring system that has been designed to monitor both single and multi-machine applications, and integrate seamlessly with existing DCS and Scada systems.
Other advantages include peace of mind, knowing that machines are being monitored 24/7, and the ability to have anywhere, anytime access to operating data.
The vbOnline surveillance system will also help to avoid those hidden and unrealised problems that can occur with time-based maintenance programmes.
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