Customer Success Story
How Pallet Lifters Remain in Continuous Operation
At the Zentis plant in Aachen, Germany, the pallet lifters move tens of tons of fruity raw materials from A to B every day to make spreads or other fruit products.The gear motors and the bearings of the cable drums of the pallet lifters are subjected to heavy loads in the process. To avoid unplanned downtime, the company uses SmartChecks to monitor the pallet lifters. This way, the maintenance team can react to incipient damage at an early stage and plan accordingly.
Benefits
Early alerting in case of parameter increase
Undisturbed operation of all production lines
Plannable maintenance work
More safety and transparency
Integration into the customer‘s own control system for peace of mind
Remote service as well as competent personal contact for all matters
Challenge
Solução
Foram instalados três dispositivos SmartCheck no equipamento para monitorizar o transelevador de paletes numa das duas fábricas da Zentis em Aachen. O conceito de monitorização baseava-se na ativação segura de um alarme em caso de variação ascendente de um valor caraterístico. As saídas de alarme do SmartCheck foram ligadas à unidade SmartConnect Box e transmitidas para o sistema de controlo do cliente.
A unidade SmartConnect Box atua como um distribuidor da alimentação elétrica e dos sinais adicionais. Ao mesmo tempo, reduz consideravelmente o volume de cablagem. Os especialistas da Schaeffler que se deslocaram às instalações acompanharam o cliente em todos os trabalhos de engenharia.
Particularidades
Savings
In the event of a pallet lifter failure, the first production losses occur after approximately two hours. Longer downtimes of the high rack warehouse have considerable consequences for all production lines.
Failure volume of production line in percent
After 4 hours | 60% |
| After 6 hours | 90% |
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