Machine Health Monitoring
Use Case
Real-time monitoring for Variable Frequency Drives
Variable Frequency Drives (VFDs) have gained in popularity due to increased efficiency in electrical consumption during production processes.
However, two key challenges exist for VFD based machines:
1) Variance in motor drive levels can cause unnoticed issues within expensive drive components of a machine.
2) Harmonic distortion from VFDs can cause electronic malfunctions or premature failure from excess heat in surrounding motors and inductive devices.
VFD monitoring allows companies to maintain optimal predictive maintenance schedules and avoid unplanned downtime.
We have a solution
Improve predictive maintenance with real time and historical operational dashboards
This solution use case, provided by MachineSense on MindSphere®, enables VFD power analysis including voltage sags and swells, helping diagnose issues that can damage drive or cause drive to reset during use.
With the high cost of drive motors and equipment downtime, accurate monitoring and preventing damage from common electrical fluctuations and changes are essential to maintain healthy margins on production activity. With KPIs for productivity data and decay data for capacitors, motor bearings, and stator winding, your teams can be more efficient and effective in their approach to predictive maintenance. Plant managers can gain better insight into optimal production levels and conditions over time.
Features
- Power analysis and performance data for VFD based machines.
- Alert data is actionable and easy to understand. Maintenance can quickly take action as necessary.
- Integrated machine data dashboard helps improve production operations over time, while reducing downtime.
- Integration with cloud platforms, power analysis, and related machine data.
Benefits
- Visualize and track the real flow of power to your critical VFD based machines.
- Improve the accuracy and effectiveness of your maintenance schedules.
- Allow your staff to quickly respond to changing conditions and potential warnings with advanced fault detection.
- Improve the timeliness and accuracy of data, helping to reduce manual inspection time.
How it works
Learn more about the applications and services that power this solution.
Crystalball
Crystalball is a process manufacturing application that provides KPIs on the power quality, machine utilization, predictive maintenance, and energy usage of critical equipment and variable frequency drives (VFD).
MachineSense Professional Services
MachineSense offers a range of professional services to deploy this solution, depending on your needs, and accelerate your digital transformation. Services may include: consulting, implementation, integration, customization and training.
MindAccess IoT Value Plan and MindServices
MindAccess™ IoT Value Plan connects your assets and uses MindSphere applications to leverage your data.
MindService® offers training and professional services to support the development and implementation of your MindSphere solution.
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