The guide helps engineers understand how CBM with real-time monitoring can offer an intelligent solution for maximising equipment uptime. The document outlines how well-maintained equipment is typically more productive, enabling maintenance teams to meet key performance indicators. It describes how advances in technologies such as sensors and data analytics have seen CBM based on real-time monitoring emerge as a tool in connected factories of the future.
According to research by IBM, the benefits of CBM include the prevention of equipment failures and downtime, extension of asset lifespan, improved safety through enhanced issue detection, reduced maintenance costs and improved maintenance efficiency.
“Knowing where to start with a CBM strategy can be a challenge, and that’s where this useful guide helps,” said Darren Halford, managing director at EU Automation. “The valuable report outlines the obstacles faced when establishing a CBM strategy, for example, high upfront costs, and gives the reader useful information about how to overcome them best.”
The guide explains how to structure a CBM monitoring system and gives real-life examples of how manufacturers have saved costs by deploying CBM into their operations. Readers can learn how to design a CBM network for real-time monitoring from both a hardware and software perspective, as well as understand the key considerations to take, such as choosing the right sensor technologies.
The guide also goes on to outline how engineers can visualise their data and provides hints and tips, for example, by ensuring that the software package selected has been used before in the engineer’s specific sector and it is compatible with the enterprise resource planning or manufacturing execution systems operated.
Additionally, the report highlights seven steps to successful CBM, including defining the CBM project, identifying critical equipment and putting information into action.
“Catching potential problems through real-time CBM early is essential to improving factory uptime, streamlining maintenance costs and staffing activities,” continued Halford. “The best starting point for CBM and real-time monitoring is to determine what items of the plant are the most critical and those that are most likely to fail, and then choose the most suitable sensors for those. Working with experienced partners like EU Automation can help engineers ensure a CBM strategy is suitable for their industrial operation and realise the full benefits.”
Those interested can download the guide here: (www.tinyurl.com/2v3e4r8e).