Tips to reduce the machine breakdown of pump motors
Real-time tracking of machine downtime in factories. Reduce motor pump and compressor machine breakdowns to boost productivity.
Motor pump systems frequently face several operational challenges. Factors such as wear and tear, component misalignment, and rotor imbalances can cause excessive vibration over time, which is a crucial sign of system deterioration. Vibrations have the potential to harm bearings, seals, and couplings, resulting in mechanical strain and ultimately leading to early breakdowns. Common issues include Improper alignment of motor and pump shafts leads to added strain on bearings and seals. Extended use without adequate lubrication or dirty lubricants speeds up wear and tear on bearings, decreasing efficiency. Unequal weight distribution in rotating parts leads to increased vibrations, putting strain on mechanical components.
Motor Pump Breakdown Tracking
Track downtime. The first step to reducing machine downtime is to understand its root cause. Tracking of machine, cause, and duration. This data will help you identify the areas where you need to focus your improvement efforts.
- Focus on the constraint. Every manufacturing process has a constraint or bottleneck. This is the point in the process where production is slowed down the most. Focus your downtime reduction efforts on the constraint, as this will have the biggest impact on overall production. MTBR and MTBF ratios are available on the dashboard
- Treat downtime as a KPI. Bluetooth RTLS solution dashboards provide a metric that is used to track progress towards a goal. When you treat downtime as a KPI, you are sending a message that it is an important issue that needs to be addressed.
- Make downtime events visual. Create a downtime board or chart that shows the current status of all machines in the factory. This will help to raise awareness of downtime and make it easier to identify and address problems.
- Empowering managers: The factory maintenance engineer has a pivotal role to play when it comes to problem-solving. Enabling him with a motor pump monitoring system will make the difference.
- Separate quick fixes and 100-year fixes. When you are analysing downtime data, it is important to distinguish between problems that can be fixed quickly and easily and problems that require a more long-term solution. Focus on fixing the quick fixes first, as this will have the biggest impact on reducing downtime in the short term.
- Implement a preventive maintenance program. Preventive maintenance is the practice of performing routine maintenance on equipment to prevent breakdowns. A good preventive maintenance software will help to identify and address potential problems before they cause a machine to break down.
Bluetooth Asset Tracking Devices for motor pump monitoring
- Invest in monitoring. Condition monitoring is the use of Bluetooth asset tracking devices with temperature, humidity, and acceleration and other technologies to track the usage of equipment such as pump motors and compressors.
- Train your operators. Properly trained operators are less likely to misuse or abuse equipment, which can lead to breakdowns. Training on how to use the panic button should cover normal operating procedures, troubleshooting procedures, and safety procedures.
- Empower your operators. Give your abnormality manager and operators the authority to stop the line if they see a potential problem and get help from the animal manager. This will help to prevent small problems from turning into big breakdowns.
- Use technology to your advantage. Several technologies can help you reduce downtime, such as computerized maintenance management systems using Bluetooth asset tracking devices and machine learning for tracking machine downtime. A Bluetooth RTLS solution can help you to track and schedule preventive maintenance tasks, while machine learning can be used to identify patterns in downtime data that can help you predict and prevent future breakdowns.
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