Condition-oriented monitoring for daily production
Conventional corrective maintenance is only performed when damage has already occurred. This leads to unexpected machine capacity loss and high maintenance costs.
A prerequisite for preventive maintenance is, therefore, perfect knowledge of the condition of the machine and its components. Monitoring of the main spindle is the key.
Condition-oriented monitoring makes spindle condition prognosis possible. SPS enables real-time inspection and contributes to effective servicing and efficient corrective maintenance.
Operating Principle
Wear, age-related damage and overloading are the main reasons for spindle failure. Insufficient bearing lubrication or extrusion cooling accelerate these symptoms of fatigue.
A real-time condition monitor compares the current state with knowledge-based target behaviour. Depending upon the event, either an SPS warning or an SPS error message with a stop in production is triggered.
Case Example
An insufficient amount of bearing lubrication oil due to a snapped off lubrication line, amongst other things, leads to bearing damage in the long term. An SPS warning signal will be set off in this case.
Protection
Your benefit
- Automated self-monitoring of spindle condition
- Earlier identification of spindle faults
- Optimal time planning of corrective maintenance measures and, therefore, the avoidance of long outage periods after a spindle failure
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