SKF adds machinery protection function to condition monitoring system

The upgrade ensures operators of critical rotating machinery are presented with an integrated system that both monitors asset condition, and protects against catastrophic failure.

The SKF @ptitude Analyst 2013 version 8.1 software upgrade and upgrade to the on-line protection system, Multilog IMx-M, further enhances the capability of this analysis and reporting software. When used in combination to monitor plant semi critical and critical rotating assets these two products offer both machinery protection and improved maintenance efficiency.

SKF @ptitude Analyst is a surveillance condition monitoring application under SKF @ptitude Suite; SKF’s software suite for plant-wide condition based maintenance. It offers powerful diagnostic and analytical capabilities that enable users to manage asset condition data from offline portable and on-line permanently installed devices with a single software program.

The software is easy to use and offers interconnectivity with multiple enterprise-wide software programs and systems, enabling the information gathered to be accessed throughout the organisation.

The SKF Multilog IMx-M primary function is to protect critical and semi-critical rotating plant assets from catastrophic failure and thereby reduce the risks of injury to people, equipment damage and accidental release of hazardous substances to the environment.

This is achieved by monitoring key parameters like vibration, rotating to stationary parts clearances and temperatures, then proceed to alarm and / or initiate machinery shutdown when predefined threshold levels are reached.