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COST OPTIMISATION
In today’s industrial world, machines need to run more efficiently and operate more smoothly with no unforeseen breakdown outages.
Owners need to have high percentage uptime and reliability maintained at a premium. With ever diminishing Cap Ex budgets this high performance demand placed on the operating machine sees a basic requirement for a low cost yet very intelligent monitoring and decision making system that monitors and then evaluates the machine’s vital operational statistics.
DATA PARAMETERS A few parameters may be…
• Machine oil level, quality, moisture content and viscosity changes
• Wear metal particles in the oil showing mechanical wear in gears and bearings
• Temperature of a bearing through deterioration
• Vibration levels abnormal
All the above example data parameters are measured in real time and from these and over a period, the system is able to perform predictive calculations, allowing the user to make informed decisions to keep the machine operating just so and have the required replacement parts ready when needed.
ACCURATE AND EASY FORMAT
The system needs to ensure that the critical operating data is fed back to the operator in an accurate yet easy to use format to allow optimised maintenance operations and provide its own overall performance assessment. The cost of a part repair or replacement up tower would be clearly preferred to the gearbox being removed and repaired off site or indeed replaced. M-HAS monitoring system when installed and optimised will give the operator huge reduction in repair and service costs and less downtime and loss of generation.
MACHINE HEALTH ASSESSMENT SYSTEM
This Machine Health Assessment System would see the system processor cleverly assess the machine’s own permissible
operating baseline and see where parameters deviate from this. It would therein assess its own condition or health statement and determine a possible time to failure or remaining useful life. From data acquired, software ‘rules’ are performed on variables (perhaps oil pressures, temperatures etc.) calculated that when combined over a period of time is powerful in their ‘data fused’ statement. The system provides an output display of accurate runtime predictive data and therein allows informed human financial and business O&M decisions to be made to…
• Minimise unforeseen operational downtime
• Plan for outage requirements • Budget or plan for the diagnosed issue and expense
Glasgow based components and consumables supplier, Renewable Parts Ltd, believe in supplying more than just parts. By providing a total supply solution, Renewable Parts can help to ensure the highest levels of turbine availability at low and in some cases, completely predictable cost.
AVOIDING DISRUPTION AND THEREFORE REDUCING COSTS
Renewable Parts Limited believes that procuring an optimised condition monitoring system is critical to operators’ ability to reduce cost and avoid disruption. However finding the right balance of capability and cost can be challenging. James Barry, CEO at Renewable Parts Ltd, commented: “The Turner M-HAS condition monitoring equipment strikes the right balance between ‘functionality’ and ‘cost’ for operators that do not wish to pay for capability they will never use. Their six month pilot scheme offered free of charge by Turners is a great market development. It’s an innovative and cost effective approach for companies who wish to limit upfront capital expenditure and pay as they go.”
Turner Wind SCAN/CLICK SCAN/CLICK
MAINTAINING RELIABILITY AND COST EFFECTIVENESS
MORE INFO
MORE INFO
www.windenergynetwork.co.uk
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