Condition monitoring can be expensive, require effort and technically complex. These factors often discourage maintenance personnel from investing or even considering condition monitoring. There-fore, up to 95% of all machines inside factories are only sporadically monitored, or often not at all.
However, this doesn't have to be the case. With Schaeffler's OPTIME, you can have reliable moni-toring around the clock, as OPTIME solutions is wireless with battery-operated vibration sensors combined with digital services and analytics in the cloud.
Via the smartphone or desktop, optime customers can constantly keep watch of their plant's status. Even with hundreds of machines, the user is notified with user-friendly messages prioritised accord-ing to their criticality.
Whereas monitoring solutions for critical process machines with variable operating conditions may cost tens – or even hundreds of thousands of pounds, OPTIME monitors at 30 per cent of the cost compared to route-based or online measurement systems. Making it economical even for smaller drive units and motors.
The plug-and-play condition monitoring solution has only been on the market since 2020, but that has not stopped it from scooping up two Red Dot Design Awards in 2021 in two categories: Smart Product and Industrial Design. Awarded by a jury composed of specialists from various OPTIME was selected for its outstanding product design, functional configuration and high level of innova-tion.
With a digital service that provides professional diagnoses based on expert algorithms and ma-chines, available 24/7 via an app, you can be sure to make the right decision and schedule your maintenance activities.
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