SEW-Eurodrive Showcases DriveRadar® IoT Suite
October 9, 2024
From Analysis to Defect Detection
Receiving critical condition alerts for your Gear Units is just one of the Smart Condition Monitoring features available with DriveRadar® IoT Suite.
Vibration Data
The structure-borne noise travels from the emission source to the gear unit housing where it is detected by the acceleration sensor. Over 3,000,000 measured values are acquired per day/. The system analyses 34, 904 spectral images daily. A human would need about 30 working days for such a task.
Order Analysis
The frequency spectrum would “smear” at variable speed. Different FFT methods and a complex order analysis allow for a meaningful vibration analysis to be carried out for each component even at variable speed.
Trend Curve
The trend curve from the calculation of the amplitude values for each component and their specific orders. With the running-behaviour of new drives, a decrease of the trend is normal. The trend stabilizes in the operating phase and the typical “bathtub curve: for the lifetime of the components is achieved.
Teach Mode
After startup, the automatic tach-in starts and the system determines the application-specific limit values for each component without further action. The “teach-in-mode” is indicated by bleu coloring of the result display. After the automatic teach-in process, the system has calibrated itself, the blue coloring disappears, and monitoring begins.
Defect Detection
Characteristic defect frequencies are calculated from the kinematic conditions. The contact of a damage generates a structure-borne sound. As a result, the amplitude values of the error frequencies increase. If the “teached” limit value is exceeded, an error is generated. Monitoring the relative trend course prevents the influence of disturbances.
Reliable Damage Detection. Example: Circumferential Gearing Damage
How does this help with maintenance?
For starters, if can measure 3,000,000 values per day, and DriveRadar® analyzes 34, 904 spectral images daily – equivalent to 225-man hours.
Smart Conditioning Monitoring 24/7
The Potential of Smart Maintenance
The DriveRadar® IoT suite package includes plug and play smart sensors, Edge processing, and intelligent data analysis to transform your static Gear units into sophisticated, self-learning, and self-diagnosing Gear Units.
The technology is designed to take the guesswork and even some of the thinking out of your maintenance tasks and allows you to view critical performance data right from your smart device.
Plan maintenance and repair activities predictively for your drives and avoid undesirable system failures.
Just some of the features:
- Early Detection of Faults
- Ability to Forecast Next Oil Change
- Predictive Maintenance
- Teach Mode
- Optimized Stockkeeping
- Faster Maintenance
- Reduced Downtime
- Receive Alerts if the Limit values change
- Receive Alerts in Temperature variances
- Create oil Error Handling protocols
- View graphical localization data when limit values are exceeded
- Error Handling with timestamp
- Recommendations for actions and appropriate services
- Calculated Warning and Fault detection
Why Condition Monitoring is Necessary
Smart Maintenance right on your Smart phone.
The Demand for Condition Monitoring is increasing tremendously and so is the need to monitor your Industrial gear units remotely. DriveRadar® IoT Suite for industrial gear units is your smart condition monitoring solution that connects you to your drive system anywhere. The benefit of DriveRadar® IoT Suite instills intelligent and machine learning concepts into your drive system and keeps them connected. The days of manual inspections and unplanned downtime can be eliminated with the DriveRadar® IoT Suite solution.
The Demand for Condition Monitoring is increasing tremendously.
SEW-Eurodrive surveyed 450 Industrial Companies:
- 83% had unplanned downtime in the past 3 years
- 70% had no scheduled maintenance planning
- 72% of respondents agreed failure prevention is top priority
- 87% of companies surveyed had unplanned downtime
Study: Vancson Bourne Basis 450 Industrial Companies 22.06.21
Interested in Condition Monitoring
Connect with SEW-Eurodrive’s Canadian DriveRadar ® Specialist.
Andy Chen Product Manager | DriveRadar® IoT | IG Units
Direct Line: 647.780.6536
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