More and more people are seeing the benefit of having online condition monitoring systems installed on critical plant equipment. Josh is programming these base-stations for our largest installation of Meerkat so far. 405 vibration and temperature points will soon be monitored by these eight base-stations in one facility. Data will be captured 24 hours a day and via a wireless …

Do you want to increase productivity from your equipment? Then listen to what your plant is doing. Remote condition monitoring doesn’t just monitor the health of your equipment. It can give you crucial information as to things happening in your process operation too. Take a look at this example. A potential customer wanted to take a look at our monitoring …

Here’s a brilliant example of where online condition monitoring has an advantage over route-based condition monitoring. It shows how quickly things can change and how quickly an online system can respond in providing an early warning of failure. Here’s an actual timeline of events where an online system prevented a kiln fan failing in service. 12:43 – The online system …

This is the sort of information that can literally save you thousands of pounds in lost production, downtime and spoilt product. It is real data taken from a remote online condition monitoring system that is installed on a brick making plant. It’s not really the data that’s important. It’s what you can do with it where there’s real value. It …

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, …