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CONDITION MONITORING...

On the pulse of the machine

Existing plants can be made fit for condition monitoring in no time at all using
smart sensors and flexible solutions for data transfer and visualisation. We
asked the experts at Turck Banner to show us how

uilding from scratch is often not always normally the case in practice, with all the
trouble-free but there is a clear benefit: associated challenges for the technical personnel.
Requirements can be taken into When implementing smart condition monitoring in
Bconsideration early on in the new an existing plant, maintenance technicians face
structures. This also applies to maintenance. many obstacles: How should the retrofit be
Anyone planning a modern production plant or a successfully completed without any intervention in
logistics centre can equip machines and plants with ongoing processes? Does the control system have to
smart sensors in order to selectively query the be adapted? How do I access information on
status data of individual devices or areas at a later machines that are difficult to access?
time. Performing inspections remotely and
efficiently planning maintenance – thanks to fast Motor monitoring as a retrofit
fieldbus networks and industrial Ethernet. This is where tailored stand-alone solutions come
What do you do, however, if the system into play, from basic local monitoring tasks right
architecture comes from a previous decade? This is through to wireless communication and the transfer

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