{"id":4640,"date":"2021-12-08T11:59:49","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T11:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quantservice.com\/news\/condition-monitoring-predicts-and-prevents-production-downtime\/"},"modified":"2022-04-12T15:18:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T15:18:30","slug":"condition-monitoring-predicts-and-prevents-production-downtime","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.quantservice.com\/es\/news\/condition-monitoring-predicts-and-prevents-production-downtime\/","title":{"rendered":"Condition monitoring predicts and prevents production downtime"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>In the beginning of 2021, we started a project at our site in&nbsp;Punkaharju, Finland, aiming to develop our operations towards a more modern and intelligent maintenance approach. This means that the&nbsp;main focus&nbsp;will shift from repair to preventive measures, a modern and proactive approach improving safety and reliability as well as optimizing costs.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project, which started&nbsp;in&nbsp;the beginning of the year&nbsp;at&nbsp;our Mets\u00e4 Wood&nbsp;site&nbsp;in&nbsp;Punkaharju,&nbsp;Finland,&nbsp;has&nbsp;developed according to plan. The&nbsp;second phase of the project is currently underway.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; We&nbsp;are&nbsp;installing&nbsp;the last sensors which will be commissioned later this month. All in all, when finished,&nbsp;we&nbsp;will&nbsp;get fact-based data from&nbsp;around&nbsp;a&nbsp;hundred&nbsp;wireless sensors connected to our&nbsp;quantPredict&nbsp;system, says Tommi Palmroth, Development Manager&nbsp;at&nbsp;Quant Finland.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; The project&nbsp;has been efficient, partly thanks to the fact that&nbsp;we&nbsp;make sure to train our&nbsp;personnel from the very beginning, in connection with the installation and the commissioning&nbsp;of the sensors.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>quantPredict&nbsp;is&nbsp;our&nbsp;cloud-based condition monitoring system,&nbsp;through which information flows seamlessly from wireless sensors to&nbsp;the&nbsp;maintenance personnel. Thanks to&nbsp;the data&nbsp;obtained, work planning and&nbsp;maintenance operations&nbsp;have become&nbsp;clearly&nbsp;more efficient, as automatic alarms and work orders go directly to the maintenance system.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; Improvements in performance have already been observed as information is&nbsp;obtained&nbsp;more easily and quickly. We get information about the fault even before&nbsp;something breaks down&nbsp;and, in some situations,&nbsp;we have even been able to completely prevent the fault from occurring, says Janne Toivanen, Area Manager of Quant Finland.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;&nbsp;With the help of condition monitoring and&nbsp;shifting towards a&nbsp;preventive maintenance&nbsp;approach, escalation of larger defects can be prevented, also&nbsp;preventing eventual&nbsp;production stops.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;shift&nbsp;towards&nbsp;a more&nbsp;modern maintenance&nbsp;approach&nbsp;has&nbsp;already from the beginning&nbsp;been received with interest and a positive attitude among the staff.&nbsp;In particular,&nbsp;personnel&nbsp;have been pleased with how Quant has taken the change forward and introduced modern tools to streamline day-to-day operations at the customer\u2019s&nbsp;site.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading\"><strong>From corrective to preventive maintenance<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In&nbsp;Punkaharju, we have already earlier seen the positive effects of condition monitoring from another plant at the customer\u2019s site.&nbsp;The project&nbsp;as a whole is&nbsp;a major step forward in reducing corrective maintenance&nbsp;tasks&nbsp;and moving&nbsp;towards the preventive maintenance approach.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; The goal of Quant&#8217;s reliability maintenance is to ensure a standardized world-class level&nbsp;at&nbsp;all&nbsp;our&nbsp;sites, through which we create customer value and technical reliability. Preventive maintenance and condition monitoring play a significant role in this core process, says Lari Kostamo,&nbsp;responsible for Quant&#8217;s reliability maintenance process&nbsp;in Finland.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; To succeed, we need to understand,&nbsp;manage&nbsp;and develop the key elements of the process; the plant&#8217;s operational safety requirements, the basics of maintenance, the quality of the work, condition monitoring and the plant&#8217;s life cycle, Kostamo adds.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Janne Toivanen:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; The transition from corrective to preventive maintenance is a big step for&nbsp;our operations. A particularly important aspect is that through condition monitoring, it&nbsp;is also&nbsp;possible to&nbsp;significantly&nbsp;improve safety, due to more efficient planning.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading\"><strong>Extending&nbsp;the life&nbsp;cycle&nbsp;of your&nbsp;plant equipment<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the benefits with&nbsp;condition monitoring&nbsp;is that it extends the life cycle of the plant&nbsp;equipment, which is an important part of&nbsp;taking&nbsp;responsibility&nbsp;for how&nbsp;operations&nbsp;impact our surroundings.&nbsp;In particular, equipment&nbsp;that is either expensive or critical for&nbsp;the&nbsp;production have&nbsp;been included in the condition monitoring.&nbsp;Ten&nbsp;screens have been installed in the maintenance facilities to provide up-to-date data on the operation of these devices. This allows maintenance personnel to inspect the device as soon as exceptions are detected in the data&nbsp;obtained&nbsp;by the sensors.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;quantPredict&nbsp;system automatically sends alerts to the&nbsp;site\u2019s&nbsp;maintenance system and creates work orders that the maintenance&nbsp;worforce&nbsp;can respond to. At&nbsp;Punkaharju, Esa&nbsp;Valkeap\u00e4\u00e4&nbsp;is responsible for&nbsp;conditions monitoring,&nbsp;including&nbsp;touring the&nbsp;factory and analyzing&nbsp;the results.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;&nbsp;The&nbsp;sensors&nbsp;could&nbsp;indicate, for example, an increase in vibration levels or temperature.&nbsp;Automatically receiving this&nbsp;data, we&nbsp;are&nbsp;able to&nbsp;perform the analysis and the necessary pre-service&nbsp;already&nbsp;before the device fails. In this way, major equipment failures and production downtime can be prevented, which brings great benefits from an economic, safety and environmental point of view, he says.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;&nbsp;As an example, I could mention a case where we received information about an increase in vibration level through an installed sensor. This was due to a lack of greasing&nbsp;in the device. If the fault had escalated, this would have cost several&nbsp;thousand&nbsp;Euros and a&nbsp;four-hour production&nbsp;downtime. Thanks to the information received, maintenance could be performed on time, as planned, safely and cost-effectively.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esa mentions&nbsp;also&nbsp;that other development&nbsp;projects&nbsp;are&nbsp;ongoing, such as the testing of a sensor&nbsp;for condition monitoring of the oil used in various&nbsp;plant&nbsp;equipment.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading\"><strong>Delivering significant long-term benefits<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The transition towards a&nbsp;preventive maintenance approach&nbsp;is a major&nbsp;step forward.&nbsp;In addition to&nbsp;this project, the digital tools used are&nbsp;continuously developed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;&nbsp;These projects require perseverance. Changes do&nbsp;not happen overnight, but they deliver significant long-term benefits,&nbsp;says Palmroth.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; At Quant,&nbsp;we have a&nbsp;strong focus on the development of our digital tools, which enable us to streamline and support our customers&#8217; operations. 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