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Failure prediction for rotary equipment
Industrial IoT sensors with AI-based analytics enhance predictive maintenance for users of rotary machinery
IoT sensor from Sensata Technologies processes data at the edge of the network and provides insights into maintenance requirements to prevent vibration-related failures of rotating machinery
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ibration monitoring and predictive maintenance specialist Sensata Tech- nologies has launched an asset moni-
toring method that enables maintenance to be carried out on rotary plant and machinery and delivers actionable information to plant managers and engineers. Unplanned downtime related to motors, pumps and other rotating assets costs plants millions in lost production and reduced utili- sation every year. Despite this, the existing methods for monitoring such machinery do not provide the real-time insights that plant managers require in order to truly monitor their assets in an effective way.
Wireless sensors \\\ The new wireless 6VW series IoT sensor pro-
vides information via the Sensata IQ platform and can simultaneously monitor each asset using six sensing modalities, including vibra- tion, temperature, acoustic emission, speed, humidity and magnetic flux. They have been designed as an easy
retrofit into a range of existing rotary sys- tems and machines such as motors, pumps,
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blowers, fans or compressors regardless of manufacturer with no changes needed to hardware or control platforms. The 6VW sen- sor series is easy to use, simple to install and has a mobile app for configuration, making setup and installation possible in less than five minutes. Sensata technology partner Nanoprecise designed the rotary machinery-specific AI- driven algorithms so that the sensor can anal- yse its own data for anomalies before pushing it to the Sensata IQ cloud-based platform for further analysis and visualisation, which falls in line with the requirements of Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). The Sensata IQ platform uses this data to identify potential faults, calculate the asset’s projected remaining useful life and alert plant managers via their laptops, tablets or smart- phones, thereby relying less on manual walka- rounds while understanding better the health of their assets. “The partnership with Sensata Technolo- gies has been a tremendous success for both parties,” says Sunil Vedula, founder and CEO of Nanoprecise. “Together, we know that our AI-
powered systems will help change the way plant managers around the globe monitor their rotary assets.” Sensata is collaborating with technology
companies such as Nanoprecise to develop systems for assets that are rarely monitored due to their complexity and the associated costs. Adding Nanoprecise’s technology to the Sensata IQ platform enables maintenance teams to make confident decisions and sim- plify maintenance programmes across rotary assets with data that can be trusted and ac- cessed anywhere at anytime. According to Naoto Mizuta, vice-president
of Industrial at Sensata Technologies, Sensata IQ is contributing significantly to the moni- toring of industrial assets, with reliable meth- ods and technology that enable operators to easily increase productivity. This intuitive, pre- dictive maintenance technology, powered by Nanoprecise, allows plant operators to gain deep machine health insights on rotary as- sets in a simple way. “Our mission is to make asset monitoring
more accessible and this system supports that mission,” says Mizuta. C&VT
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