Doctors use a stethoscope to listen to
a patient’s heart, listening for the beat
consistency. Similarly, maintenance
engineers use this concept to monitor
‘machine health’ by sensing and
evaluating physical pulses emitted by
rotating parts.
By listening to the frequency of pulses
generated by a machine’s moving
components – for example, such as
those found in bearings, fans, pumps,
shafts and gear teeth – and then
comparing these to ‘normal, baseline
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Our IP69k, IO-Link (Smart) technology is used
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pulses’ versus irregular readings,
engineers can confidently operate
plant over the expected full life of the
machine and avoid an unexpected
catastrophic machine failure…with
associated costs relating to such a
production disrupting event. Hence,
they can avoid an unexpected disaster/
down-time…or in the case of a patient,
a heart attack!
Over the past decade, ifm electronic
have developed a comprehensive
range of industrial vibration sensors,
designed to monitor machine health
24/7 while measuring overall machine
health to ISO 10816. Protected by
real-time condition readings, critical
machines used for processing and
manufacturing can be relied on to
perform optimally over their planned
lifetime. Plant maintenance operators
remain continually abreast of their
machines’ health, and receive accurate
predictions of bearing and other
predictable failures in advance of the
event.
Given the doctor analogy, we all feel
better after a check-up. Life goes on
and risks remain after we depart. Now
imagine leaving a stethoscope on
the patient 24/7...a safer solution. So
the same logic applies to monitoring
critical plant, by leaving a permanent
sensor on a machine versus a periodic
check-up. The upside of continuous
monitoring plant is maintenance staff
can confidently order spare parts and
plan installation during scheduled
maintenance shut-downs, which avoid
unplanned production stoppages.
ifm’s German-made vibration sensors
vary from basic vibration switches to
intelligent vibration sensors with local
displays and logging capability - 316SS,
IP69K water-resistant accelerometers
for harsh environments, and Zener barrier
types for explosive atmospheres.
Monitoring systems provide plant
diagnostics, by taking up to 4x accelerometer
inputs and 2x analogues.
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These cost-effective solutions provide
frequency selective monitoring and
networking capability TCP/IP Ether-
Net interface. With integrated history
memory and real-time clock functions,
networkable solutions for interfacing
with SCADA, MES and ERP. ifm sensor
range cover all applications.
Please contact ifm ph: 0800 803 444,
or for more information check out the
website: www.ifm.com/nz
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