There certainly is a growing interest for on-line condition monitoring of plant. But it might not be right for you….. If you’re happy with a run-to-failure system and the downtime costs that come with it, this post won’t interest you. If you embrace technology and see how having an early warning of failure is useful, here’s one such system being …

“What if you had data to make better maintenance decisions?” “What if that data could save you time and money?” “What if you had this data without having people come to your site?” “Would you make use of it?” …Well hopefully that’s a no-brainer, of course you would. Better maintenance decisions, time and money savings, fewer people on your site…Surely …

This smart building just got smarter! 52-54 Lime Street in the City of London’s financial district is known as The Scalpel due to its ‘sharp’ design. But did you know… It is 190 metres high, Has 40 showers, Has 396 cycle parking spaces, and now it has a MEERKAT condition monitoring system installed! Rich and his team have been busy …

Plant rooms are often some of the most beneficial areas to install online condition monitoring. They are vital to production and are often shut away behind closed doors. This means that in a lot of industries, problems are only reaslied when it’s too late when a motor, pump or fan has failed. This pump plant room provides coolant for a …

Data can tell us so much about what’s going on in a production environment. It can help to prevent unplanned downtime too but only if you’re looking in the right places and at the right data. What would you do if you had this data given to you about a fan bearing on a critical piece of your production equipment? …

Meerkat, the award winning condition monitoring system is now available for Ex zones. After some great work by my innovations team and collaboration with a sensor manufacturer, I’m really excited to be launching the Ex version of Meerkat. Designed to measure vibration and temperature (including surface temperature) changes in rotating machinery it detects problems happening before failure. It’s still wireless, …