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- Architects of Smart Manufacturing
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- Level Detection
- Explosion Protection
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- Condition Monitoring
Condition Monitoring
Continuously monitor the condition of machines, plants and processes
Stop guessing, start knowing
Condition monitoring systems and their components contribute to the efficient and trouble-free operation of machines and plants. With them, you know the current status and can make informed decisions for the future - and don't have to keep guessing.
Increase performance:
Increase plant availability
Increase product/process quality
Increase plant service life
Efficient monitoring
Cost reduction:
Reduce repair costs
Reduce maintenance and service
Reduce spare parts stocks
Process optimization:
Plannable and efficient maintenance
Uncomplicated part replacement
Easily identify defective sensors
Create added value:
As an OEM for your customer.
Reduce maintenance and service
Improve quality of machines
Disruptions in the production process due to unplanned downtimes can be prevented through the use of sensors. Monitoring sensors, such as temperature, pressure and level sensors, provide data on the condition of a plant. If this data is processed, it provides valuable information for the maintenance of the machines and thus enables successful preventive maintenance.
The benefits of condition monitoring
Condition monitoring systems allow changes, such as wear on individual components or decreased sensor performance, to be detected more quickly and machine maintenance to be optimized and proactive.
This optimizes the maintenance process and also increases safety for your employees. Furthermore, failures can be anticipated to avoid or minimize production delays and the costs that come with them.
Beyond these possibilities, the extensive information and data provided by condition monitoring systems offers the possibility of new business and pricing models for machines and plants.
Improvement
Downtime management
First step towards predictive maintenance
Employee safety
What do you want to learn next?
You can download more information about this topic, however much experience you currently have with condition monitoring.
For beginners, a PDF fact sheet:
It includes the top 5 facts about condition monitoring
Maintenance approaches
Tips to gather the right data
Answers about cost-benefit tradeoffs
An example return on investment calculation
For advanced, a digital whitepaper:
Example applications show where and how condition monitoring can bring real benefits
An easy guide to help you choose the right sensors and solution to match your requirements
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Balluff Condition Monitoring: A comprehensive portfolio that sets standards
With a broad and systemically comprehensive range, Balluff offers suitable solutions for the efficient analysis of your machine data: From sensors that provide additional data for efficient condition monitoring through IO-Link, to standard systems with extensive analysis options and evaluation software, to customised overall solutions. From evaluation to concept to implementation - we are the right partner from the very beginning and will be happy to accompany you.
Our customers solve complex problems in industrial production every day. We aim to make their work easier and more efficient. Our sensors provide valuable data about machines that increases reliability in the automation process and drives improvement. Our customers have benefitted from our solutions -- from simple to complex --for many years and we'd be happy to support you in implementing them as well.
Thomas Meissner, Strategic Incubation Manager at Balluff
Our technology for your success
Condition detection, analysis, diagnosis:
In addition to their core functions, like distance measurement or object detection, the components of the Balluff Smart Automation and Monitoring System (SAMS) provide you with condition data like vibration, temperature or operating hours. The best part: thanks to the IO-Link communication standard, the data you need is available uniformly everywhere, and as soon as you need it.
Learn more about the functions of the components of the Smart Automation and Monitoring System.
A condition monitoring solution in an intelligent sensor
In addition to the SAMS components, Balluff offers an intelligent condition monitoring sensor. The condition monitoring sensor measures various physical variables - such as vibration, temperature, humidity and ambient pressure - and supplies the recorded data to a higher-level system via IO-Link. The data obtained can be used not only for plant control, but can also be further evaluated and analyzed for diagnostic purposes. In addition, the sensor offers the possibility of defining limit values for pre-alarms and main alarms, so that certain states generate warning messages as soon as the defined values are exceeded. After evaluating the collected data, statements can be made about the condition of the machines and systems. Together with the warning messages, this data pool is a prerequisite for predictive maintenance.
Multiple measured variables in one device: vibration, temperature, humidity, ambient pressure
Integrated evaluation electronics with configurable data preprocessing
Configurable events and status displays
Quick to connect and easy to integrate via IO-Link
Compact design
Condition Monitoring Toolkit (CMTK)
With the Condition Monitoring Toolkit (CMTK), we offer you a complete solution to monitor the condition of machines and processes. It contains everything you need: from sensors to data acquisition system to visualization software. And you benefit from great flexibility thanks to its compatibility with all IO-Link sensors, as well as simple operation thanks to the intuitive software. Thus, with the CMTK, you can implement condition monitoring entirely according to your needs in just a few minutes.