Cement Industry, Raw Mill Gear Box
The VIBit sensor, installed on a raw mill gearbox at a cement manufacturer’s plant, helped to prevent unplanned downtime and played a significant role in detecting unexpected failure, thereby avoiding production loss.
A raw mill is a piece of equipment used to grind raw materials into raw mix during the manufacturing of cement. The raw mill gearbox plays a very important role in grinding at the plant.
It is like the best Machine SMEs looking into sensor data every 5 minutes,
24 hours a day and 365 days a year.
The system provides both foresight and insight. The VIBit sensor can be installed on a raw mill gearbox.
Once installed, it tracks the machine’s tri-axial vibrations, temperature, and gearbox noise levels. It sends this information to an IIOT Platform. On this platform, machine anomaly detection algorithms analyze the sensor data. These algorithms expertly perform spectrum analysis, and gear box mesh frequencies which may indicate specific problems in the gear box. For example, if the system detects unusual vibration and a gradual temperature increase, it will send an alert to the appropriate users via e-mail. Then, these users can address the issue before it causes any machine downtime.
The system provides early warning on progressing faults, so it prevented an unplanned breakdown. The vibration spectrum was used to identify the specific issue so the maintenance team inspected the gearbox and lubricated it in a timely manner, resolving the issue..
