Despite having a wealth of data on assets, including service orders, spreadsheets and a structured maintenance routine, it’s not uncommon for managers to be caught off guard by gaps in their knowledge about these assets.
For many generations, maintenance has only been remembered in times of crisis and is often viewed as a source of excessive costs. The TRACTIAN sensor and platform were designed to change this perception by streamlining the maintenance process and providing a single, easy-to-use tool for combining productivity and monitoring. By using this system, maintenance managers can improve their efficiency and better manage their assets.
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We are capable of monitoring over 30 categories of machines, such as:
Basically, the platform can monitor each and every rotary asset that works with any type of behavior considered critical, or that has a vibration profile statistically defined.
When we talk about maintenance, we talk about maintaining a rhythm. The job is not catching up with what already happened, but keeping activities up and running every single day.
There are many solutions on the market that claim to be the future of the industry, but when it comes to actually implementing them, it can take a long time and they often fail to consider the practicalities of the shop floor.
TRACTIAN is a system of complete condition monitoring, carefully designed for the day-to-day routine of maintenance teams. Our solution focuses on providing intelligent, data-driven insights through condition monitoring and predictive analysis.
TRACTIAN’s solution provides state-of-the-art online monitoring for assets as well as predictive maintenance. With our tools, you can have access to the analytics and spectrum of your machines. You can also instantly view the reliability and availability of assets in a very simple interface.
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Through automatic insights and alerts (sent via the TRACTIAN App or browser available on smartphones, tablets or your computer) you’re able to assign work orders and monitor all machines in one place. If anything goes wrong, we’ll send an alert right away.
Here are the 4 most commonly monitored machines:
When a sensor is implanted in a compressor, we can detect wear and overload on the axis. Compressors can be divided into different models:
The electric motor converts electric energy into mechanics. Failures of imbalance, misalignment and resonance, for instance, can be identified with the TRACTIAN sensor. Among all types of electric motors, the two most common are:
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TRACTIAN’s sensor makes the detection of belt misalignment and bearing defects possible. Fans can be classified as:
These are utilized to transfer water or other liquid products. They have the option to be powered by gasoline, diesel or electrically and there are also models with impulsion by a water wheel.
The motor pumps or electric pumps are monitored through TRACTIAN’s sensor, which detects signals of excessive temperature or imbalance. They are hydraulic pumps with strong motors, and have functions of specific energy increase, depending on the industrial segment. The main types are:
Corteva Agriscience – a multinational seed, crop protection and digital agriculture company – has a plant that operates 24/7. Downtime for maintenance or cleaning, even if infrequent, had a big impact when it happened.
Thanks to a recommendation, Fernando Vicente, the plant’s maintenance leader, contacted TRACTIAN. He prioritized the most important equipment and installed 10 sensors – in a short time, several alerts were identified by the platform.
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Two pumps with high failure rates and fluctuating vibration patterns were identified as critical assets, as well as an exhaust tag (B270) that was prone to unbalance.
Despite having scheduled maintenance, one of the pieces of equipment experienced an unexpected increase in vibration, which was detected by the TRACTIAN sensor just one week before the planned shutdown.
“We did the vibration analysis sample a week before the insight was issued. Had we waited a month we might have misssed it. You notice noise in the area but without data, you have no way to confirm it.”
Fernando also added that, in addition to vibrations, the sensor also detected unbalance and misalignment.
“The sensor has been useful for decision making, to know whether we stop or not, to see how far the equipment can operate.”
This insight shows that the sensors identified an unbalance in the 1st harmonic (H1), where the set limit was exceeded. After the alert, preventive action was carried out and the RMS Speed levels went back below the ISO Critical Zone limit.
Thanks to the insight, serious damage and losses were anticipated and Corteva was able to avoid a breakdown that could have cost anywhere from $4,000 to $13,000.
AmstedMaxion, a company that manufactures and supplies industrial and railway castings, turned to the TRACTIAN sensor after their maintenance team struggled to obtain sufficient information to understand and predict equipment repairs.
“The data that is sent by the sensor to the platform helped us understand what is related to vibration and allows us to act preventively. And it ends up being very productive.” -Maintenance supervisor of AmstedMaxion
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The company’s assets, such as the sand mixer F1135 and the mechanic pickling machine F5226, require regular balancing to function properly. By using the TRACTIAN platform, it was easy to identify abnormalities and take preventive measures to avoid a major breakdown that could disrupt production.
After preventive maintenance in the mixer, AmstedMaxion had a reduction of approximately 40% in the equipment’s vibration, preventing early wear and tear and future downtime deriving from unplanned maintenance.
By implementing TRACTIAN’s online monitoring sensor and platform, you can spare your assets from future unexpected failures and optimize your maintenance routine.
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