How Manufacturing and Production Businesses Can Benefit From Predictive Maintenance

The manufacturing and processing industries are cornerstones of our economy and create vital commodities. After the hard-working people who operate and maintain them, nothing is more essential to the manufacturing and processing industries than the machines that keep them going. Keeping critical assets operating at peak capacity requires a commitment to predictive maintenance. Completely non-contact vibration monitoring equipment is one of the most effective predictive maintenance strategies, as it allows teams to monitor assets without taking them offline.
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The Importance of Predictive Maintenance

Predictive maintenance can save any manufacturing or processing business a whole lot of time and money. Playing catchup by trying to deal with asset issues or failures generally equals more downtime and far more expensive repair bills than would be the case for problems that are caught earlier. Mechanical issues that aren’t addressed early can also be responsible for damaged or inferior end products, which in a worst-case scenario could lead to losing or recalling a batch of products.

The Best Predictive Maintenance Technology

Vibration monitoring is arguably the most effective tool for machine condition monitoring and predictive maintenance. Innovations in the predictive maintenance (PDM) space now allow for completely non-contact vibration monitoring technology, meaning no necessary downtime for connecting sensors to critical assets. That innovation is exemplified by RDI Technologies’ Iris M™ technology platform that’s driven by Motion Amplification technology. The software turns every pixel in a video camera into a sensor allowing for the visualization of movement across an entire asset, delivered in real-time. For clear, quick communication and root cause issue identification, it’s an invaluable predictive maintenance solution.

Food Manufacturing

Food and beverage manufacturing and processing is a natural fit for employing a proactive predictive maintenance program. Asset failures and issues during the production of consumable products can have significant consequences. To ensure that products meet necessary standards of quality, production assets need to be monitored, but downtime is always difficult to schedule. Completely non-contact vibration monitoring technology helps to identify issues before they become failures.

Textile and Apparel Manufacturing

Textile and apparel manufacturing often requires precision cutting, shaping, and sewing. For consistently successful production, the machinery involved needs to be precisely calibrated and running consistently. On textile and apparel production floors, even minor deviations or alterations in an asset’s operation can cause problems with the end product, so consistent monitoring without downtime is vital.

Metal Fabrication

Metal fabrication is like food and beverage manufacturing and production in that the consequences of asset issues and failures can be twofold. Machinery that is not functioning at full efficiency or not functioning as it should can cause delays and faults. There is an additional risk when it comes to quality control, and a fault that goes unnoticed for too long can have cascading effects. Quality control begins with the quality of production assets, which consistent, unobtrusive monitoring helps to ensure.

About RDI Technologies

RDI Technologies is a leading force in the predictive maintenance and test and measurement space with its advanced, completely non-contact Iris M™ platform. Their proprietary Motion Amplification® technology effectively turns millions of a camera’s pixels into sensors that amplify motion and measure that motion with a high degree of accuracy. Visualizing motion that would normally be invisible to the human eye allows for predictive maintenance as accurate as contact sensors while remaining completely non-contact. In real-time, RDI Technologies’ Iris M™ system converts the raw data into an informative, meaningful visualization that clearly communicates that information through a user-friendly interface. Using completely non-contact vibration analysis equipment also means that critical assets can be monitored with no downtime. Choose RDI Technologies to identify root causes faster and ensure your assets are working efficiently.

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