NHP Newsroom SPRING 2018 | Page 14

Protect your operations with Integrated Condition Monitoring solutions from NHP I n any plant, there are assets, big or small, that are imperative to the overall operation and ensuring their condition is monitored is essential. Being informed about your machines’ status will protect from damage, prevent problems that would result in a loss of production, assure or improve quality, and reduce maintenance costs. When it comes to rotating and reciprocating industrial machinery, the most effective data collection is bearing and casing vibration readings, and often these critical rotating assets are monitored using periodic manual data collection. This level of analysis provides customers with historical insight into asset performance, however too often customers are not acquiring or analysing this data in a timely manner and are missing early warnings signs of developing problems. Missing these indicators can result in equipment failure and can impact maintenance budgets and productivity goals. Whilst routine maintenance is often applied to critical machinery at scheduled intervals to prevent failure, predicative 14 maintenance techniques are designed to help determine the condition of equipment and predict when maintenance should be performed reducing unnecessary scheduling maintenance works or unplanned production loss caused by a failure. To truly achieve predictive intelligence, real-time 24/7 monitoring of your critical rotating assets is required. With online monitoring of your critical assets, permanent sensors are installed to constantly monitor your critical assets’ performance and can report any deviations immediately. With Rockwell Automation’s Integrated Condition Monitoring solutions from NHP, this online solution has just become even easier to integrate. The Allen-Bradley® Dynamix™ 1444 Series has been specifically designed to integrate into your existing control system allowing you to leverage existing investments in your SCADA and information solutions platforms.