Understanding the Relationship Between Employee Safety and Your Machinery Health

 There is no shortage of practical reasons for a business to make sure their critical manufacturing or production machinery is functioning at full health. Production assets with issues or malfunctions can reduce efficiency, impact product quality, and result in downtime. All of which can prove expensive. More importantly, machinery and equipment malfunctions seriously injure and even kill workers every year. That makes effective predictive maintenance, especially using innovative vibration analysis equipment, critically important.

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Critical Assets Can Cause Serious Injuries

There are millions of workplace injuries a year in the U.S. and hundreds every hour! Employees who work around large machines are at risk for injury more than many other professions. Manufacturing and production jobs are near the top of the list. Serious injuries caused by faulty or malfunctioning machinery and equipment are an unfortunately common occurrence. Many of them, however, are preventable.

Machinery Commonly Involved in Malfunction Injuries

While pretty much any complex, heavy machinery has the potential to cause injuries when it malfunctions, some types represent a greater risk than others. Those include:

• Turbines and cylinders

• Fans and pumps

• Gears and blowers

• Printing and food presses

• Compressors and grinders

• Crushers and compactors

• Factory machines in general

The most common causes of mechanical failure include basic wear and tear, defective manufacturing or design, and improper maintenance. Mechanical malfunctions and failures that result in injury rarely simply spontaneously emerge. There are usually indications of a problem present, even if they aren’t obvious.

Preventive Maintenance Is Crucial for Asset Reliability

Preventive maintenance is crucial for ensuring and maintaining the reliability and safe operation of critical manufacturing assets. Effective preventive maintenance solutions include stringent maintenance and lubrication schedules, continually training workers to properly operate and work with assets and training them to look for issues. Every preventive maintenance strategy should include vibration monitoring and analysis.

Smart Vibration Analysis Technology Is Critical

As mentioned, when mechanical assets develop problems, there are usually indications of those developing issues, even if they remain invisible to casual inspection. Those indications often manifest as vibration that’s invisible to the naked eye. That makes vibration monitoring and analysis invaluable. Gaining a comprehensive insight into the reliability of a critical asset with vibration monitoring requires the use of a smart vibration monitoring platform. Choose vibration monitoring equipment that’s driven by the innovative Motion Amplification® technology. Rather than relying on the traditional contact vibration sensors, vibration analysis powered by Motion Amplification® allows the user to visualize the motion and problematic vibration that would otherwise remain invisible. That provides a comprehensive whole-system view revealing the relationships between components. It makes root-cause identification and problem solving simple and intuitive and does so in real-time with no downtime for attaching contact vibration sensors.

About RDI Technologies

When RDI Technologies introduced the Iris M™, driven by Motion Amplification® technology, they effectively changed the predictive maintenance space forever. With Iris M™, RDI Technologies equips users with a precise, leading-edge machine condition monitoring platform. It operates by turning every one of a camera’s pixels into a sensor that amplifies motion and vibration. Motion and vibration that would otherwise remain wholly imperceptible to the human eye are rendered visible. The Iris M™ system’s use of this Motion Amplification technology serves to provide users with that data in real-time. The component-level overview of the data can deliver a swift resolution of an asset’s root-cause issues. Iris M™ converts critical, complex data into meaningful, informative visualizations that clearly communicate critical information with both technical and non-technical team members. Plus, Iris M™ technology requires no downtime for setup. With RDI Technologies, Seeing is Believing™.

Use the Iris M™ platform from RDI Technologies to maximize the efficiency of your critical assets and protect the safety of employees, at Rditechnologies.com


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