Customer Success Story
Higher Reliability Rates for Vertical Mills and Machines
Baştaş Çimento, part of the Vicat Group, was looking for a monitoring solution for its vertical mills and machines, such as dosing units, pumps or fans, which would increase the reliability of failure detection and thus the availability of the plant equipment. The goal was to improve the planning of maintenance work in order to prevent unplanned downtimes. It was a twin approach that provided the solution: For the vertical mills, the Main- tenance Department opted for the ProLink CMS vibration monitoring solution – and for the award-winning OPTIME (CM) digital condition monitoring solution for all other machines.
Results:
With OPTIME (CM), reliability rates have increased, with 6 measurements per day and 180 measurements per month.
With ProLink CMS, every level of the internal structure of critical installations is being monitored. Maintenance is thus benefiting from greater safety for people and machinery.
Challenge
“My biggest concern is an unplanned shutdown. That is why we have been monitoring our vertical mill and other machines in our plant for years. The problem: This monitoring solution does not enable us to detect incipient damage early enough.“
Solution
Technical Information
Product information ProLink CMS
Schaeffler sensors record the vibrations on the machine while the ProLink condition monitoring system analyzes the overall vibration condition as well as component-specific vibrations, e.g. in bearings, gears. All parameters and alarm statuses can be transmitted to the control room and the machine control system using OPC UA. The alarm condition can also be transmitted simultaneously to a maintenance planning system via OPC UA. The appropriate maintenance measures can then be initiated from there. High costs incurred by a stoppage can thus be reliably prevented.
Product information OPTIME (CM)
The sensors monitor machinery and equipment at the customer’s site. The gateway receives the data from the sensors and transfers these to the Schaeffler cloud. OPTIME CM detects problems, sends alarms accordingly and provides information on the possible cause of the problem. Expert knowledge of condition monitoring is not required as this knowledge is already integrated in OPTIME CM in the form of Schaeffler know-how. The solution can also be used in potentially explosive atmospheres.
Easy commissioning of the digital solution in only a few minutes. Plug. Play. Predict.
