Emerson Machine Health Monitoring helps right-time your preventive maintenance program and increase it's effectiveness
You've probably heard awesome stories of how truly great things can happen to people out of the blue; love when you least expect it, strangers paying for your coffee... The list goes on and on forever about how small, unexpected people and the actions they sometimes take can bring us light, love and unmeasurable positive impact to our lives.
Machines however, are not out to sweep us off our feet, cheer us up, or have any desire to pass along some sunny moments into our lives. No, they're famous for breaking down when we need them the MOST. Sometimes, it almost feels like maybe they even conspire together and to all have different (and very time consuming) breakdowns all within days, even hours of each other to cause total havoc on our work, and lives. The surprises machines can deliver don't exactly give anyone the warm fuzzies.
Nobody wants a sudden, costly and possibly hazardous machinery breakdown. The safety factor alone is enough to keep you up at night worrying about the next one; which one, when and how it will all unfold. Thankfully though, scheduling regular inspections and preventive maintenance—like lubricants, filters, belts and connections—can spot potential issues before they cause a failure or unwanted surprise.
When done at the right intervals, you can increase your productivity by being proactive, avoiding most big issues. But even with the best of intentions for your preventative maintenance scheduling it involves some expense and, in most cases, a certain amount of down time. That’s why it's important not to over-do it either; every week or even every month unless it’s been proven necessary.
So how do you know how to right-time your preventative maintenance and schedule accordingly to best fit your machines, and your budget? After all, there is no one size (or schedule) that fits all machines.
Zedi Machine Health Monitoring starts by monitoring and collecting status data on any machine that has sensors. So, from the start, you’ll know how it’s doing at that moment, which is already a huge advance over walk-by inspections. Then you are presented easy to understand analyzed data that will help predict potential hazards, which can increase uptime, safety and return on investment.
Why is the right analyzed data so important?
Because most failures leave clues, sometimes days or weeks before they become big enough to fail. By tracking, analyzing and understanding that data trail, you can plan the when and the what involved in preventive maintenance. Taking a few minutes at the right time to replace a bearing, change oil or update a filter can eliminate a costly and time-consuming shutdown and repair.
Since every procedure for a machine is part of a larger chain, right-timing your preventative maintenance and accurately scheduling every single step keeps all the other steps flowing smoothly.
Which means you’re only doing maintenance tasks when needed. That also keeps everything up and running every minute possible. It keeps the work flow and the profits moving in your direction.
It also keeps everyone as safe as possible. Maintaining large machines and complex processes maximizes safety in these challenging and often times remote operations. Being cloud-based, all data is available to authorized people wherever they are. Enabling centralized management to easily and clearly keep tabs on an array of buildings and facilities from one location. That lets management predict and schedule maintenance personnel across the board, helping those people work safely and efficiently.
When a repair is found necessary, you’ll have a clear picture of the issue, meaning you’re sending the people with the right expertise, the right tools and the right supplies and parts to the right place at the right time.
And as machinery ages, its repair needs can change. With ongoing monitoring your maintenance schedules will adapt as machinery ages, or as it is replaced and updated. End-to-end, head-to-toe, all-in monitoring and data analytics give your people a wealth of easily understandable information they can use at any time, any place.
