How a Non-Contact Predictive Maintenance Solution Can Benefit Your Business

Predictive maintenance is an essential priority for the healthy and profitable operation of any manufacturing facility. Beyond contributing to a maintenance culture, which is beneficial to any facility that relies on manufacturing equipment, it is accompanied by a suite of practical advantages. Among the most effective predictive maintenance tools is vibration analysis technology for machine condition monitoring. However, not all vibration monitoring technology is the same. For your business’s machine condition monitoring, choose non-contact video-based vibration analysis equipment. 

Vibration Analysis Equipment

Prioritize Machine Condition Maintenance as Preventive Maintenance

Machine condition monitoring, using vibration monitoring technology, should be a cornerstone of any preventive maintenance strategy. Manufacturing assets that are malfunctioning, failing, or otherwise not operating as they should are prone to producing telltale vibrations. Those vibrations are generally invisible to the human eye, making vibration monitoring technology a must for diagnosing and correcting these issues early.

Find Non-Contact Vibration Analysis Equipment

As effective as vibration analysis equipment is, traditional vibration analysis equipment is accompanied by some drawbacks. Among the chief drawbacks is that traditional vibration monitoring necessitates physically attaching contact sensors to the machinery. Attaching physical sensors requires shutting machines down, which makes predictive maintenance difficult to schedule. The best alternative is a vibration analysis technology platform like the Iris M™ innovation from RDI Technologies. Iris M™ employs Motion Amplification® technology to visualize problematic vibrations that would otherwise remain invisible.

Why Non-Contact Vibration Monitoring Is Faster

A significant benefit of vibration analysis equipment that uses completely non-contact Motion Amplification technology is how much faster it tends to be. The absence of contact sensors means no downtime accompanying shutting assets down, sometimes waiting for them to cool, and so on. Since the Iris M™ utilizes a camera to visualize movement, the relevant data is communicated in real-time, while the assets are running. Complex data is clearly, efficiently communicated in real-time using easy to interpret videos.

How Non-Contact Vibration Analysis Simplifies the Process

In addition to saving time, non-contact vibration monitoring, driven by Motion Amplification® technology, also simplifies the process considerably. The data gathered by traditional vibration monitoring platforms relying on contact sensors has to be gathered and analyzed by engineers. However, that process is often far less challenging for the engineers than successfully communicating the data to the non-technical staff. Vibration analysis technology employing Motion Amplification® provides a whole-system, component-level view of an asset while clearly and effectively communicating that data into easy to interpret visualizations to aid non-technical staff in understanding the takeaways.

About RDI Technologies

RDI Technologies has succeeded in changing the predictive maintenance space forever. Its Iris M™ machine condition monitoring technology platform represents a reliable, cutting-edge innovation that turns every pixel in a camera into a sensor. Motion that would have remained invisible to human vision is rendered visible. That allows RDI Technologies’ Iris M™ platform to provide users with real-time data, thanks to Motion Amplification® technology. That technology can then be used to swiftly resolve root-cause issues identified by the problematic vibrations they cause. With Iris M™ vibration monitoring technology, that crucial data is converted into meaningful, informative visualizations that communicate critical information clearly to technical and non-technical team members. Additionally, the Iris M™ platform powered by Motion Amplification® technology requires no downtime for setup. With RDI Technologies, Seeing is Believing™.

Experience the difference that the RDI Technologies Motion Amplification® platform can make at Rditechnologies.com

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