08.07.2010 | Author / Editor: S. Clewley / Marcel Dröttboom
...a potential performance failure, the Port of Tilbury actually use the information in a quite sophisticated way. Andy Lamb, Engineering Manager at the Tilbury Grain Terminal, explains; - “When the condition monitoring gives us a first indication of belt slip and raises an initial alarm, we use this as a ‘trigger point’ to deploy our planned maintenance scheme. There is a strong correlation between that very early, slight ‘out of order’ condition and the timing of a service. By doing this our maintenance regime is tied to hours of machine usage not absolute time and therefore we only service when necessary. This saves valuable manpower resources and obviously money”.
The customer is very satisfied with the result of this installation and is now looking to replicate it on the second marine leg and in addition has now decided to extend the Watchdog Elite system philosophy into the main silo block itself. The technology will be the ‘big brother’ of the installed system – the T500 Elite. This system is capable of monitoring up to 256 inputs every four seconds and has full integration capability with the on-site PLC set up.
Steve Clewley, 4B Braime Elevator Components, United Kingdom
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