Smartdrive Equipment Condition-Based Monitoring
Smartdrive CBM system works through sensors that detect 24/7 noise and vibrations of an asset, evaluating their residual lifetime and the probability of breaking. It allows maintainers to quickly test and receive real-time feedback from earings, gears, motors, pumps and valves.
Equipment Condition-Based Monitoring
Condition Based Monitoring is a maintenance strategy that allows monitoring the actual condition of an asset, extracting information to understand the machines' actual wear and degradation, and if a relevant change has occurred. The idea behind it is that maintenance should only be done when a consistent decrease in the equipment's performance is observed: thanks to the CBM outputs, it is possible to adjust the maintenance tasks and set up preventive, prognostic, and trend investigations as well.
The SmartDrive CBM application is based on online sensors that:
- Detect continuous noise and vibrations of the asset
- Evaluate the residual lifetime of the asset
- Evaluate the probability of breaking, as well as the time between one break and another
- Provide a real-time alert when specific thresholds are exceeded.
- SmartDrive Condition-Based Monitoring
Advantages
The CBM application:
- Allows the scheduling of preventive and corrective actions at the optimal time
- Increases the time between maintenance actions
- Works while the asset is working
- Minimizes unexpected failure risk
- Improves the equipment reliability
- Improves workers' safety
- Can provide predictive maintenance, by implementing an algorithm based on historical data or by manually entering the data (whenever deterioration processes are more easily detectable through the direct observation of an inspector).
Where it Can be Used
