Maximising Productivity–Condition Monitoring of Drives and Rotating Equipment-The Journey from Reactive to Proactive Maintenance

The cost of unplanned machine failures can be far more than just lost production output, it can result in additional costs associated with waste materials, labour, emergency spare part supply and even damage to reputation.

Drives and motors remote condition monitoring helps to monitor critical health and operating parameters of mechanical powertrain components in real-time. This means users are given advanced notification of potential problems, so maintenance can be planned and undertaken before a failure actually occurs.

ABB’s Digital Powertrain technology not only allows manufacturers to predict when maintenance is required, but it gives them a broad picture of the unique influence components have on one another allowing them to improve the performance, reliability and efficiency of their powertrain which in turn improves system optimization.