Failures and downtime happen in every manufacturing environment. If you are waiting until your equipment breaks down to do repairs, you are adding unnecessary costs and inefficiencies to your business. Not only do you have the cost of an emergency repair call-out, you must pay for any unplanned loss of productivity and wasted resources too. Outdated maintenance procedures also waste resources and may expose staff to greater safety risk.
According to Industry Week, “Unplanned downtime costs industrial manufacturers an estimated $50 billion annually. And equipment failure is the cause of 42% of this unplanned downtime.”
Routine inspections can help catch equipment failures before they become catastrophic. By analysing the data on equipment with the help of sensors, which are cost effective, maintenance managers can identify patterns of equipment failure and schedule inspection and repairs on a more regular basis, extending the working life of your capital investment in equipment at all levels of operation.
Solutions to consider for manufacturing
Air leak detector
Equipped with an array of microphones for an expanded field-of-view, the handheld air leak detectors enable maintenance teams to quickly and accurately locate air, gas and vacuum leaks in compressed air systems; even during peak operations and in noisy environments.
Our recommendation: Fluke ii900 SoundSight™ Sonic Industrial Imager
Power quality analysers
As with any troubleshooting task, you need the right tools to get the job done. When it comes to power quality troubleshooting, finding and eliminating issues with dips and swells, harmonics, unbalance, and other power quality issues can be difficult. Capturing the data needed to troubleshoot is the first step in solving these power quality issues. Power quality analysers are required to calculate the costs of wasted energy and prevent. Power quality analyser can be used with motors, pumps, generators, transformers, compressors and electrical panels.
Our recommendation: Fluke 434-II Series Power Quality and Energy Analysers
Vibration tester
Control unplanned downtime, prevent recurring problems, set repair priorities and manage your resources with an entirely new approach to vibration testing on your pumps, motors and production lines.
Our recommendation: Fluke 810 Vibration Tester