Zensor - Grinder
Unexpected shutdowns are costly and very demanding for the workforce involved. Make your grinder or vertical rolling mill (as some call it) smart in order to increase the availability and quality output. Today most often technical data sheets coupled with the knowledge of a number of unique experienced individuals are used to determine when maintenance is required the grinder. Product quality only becomes an issue when customers start complaining. Repairs are done when it`s already far too late. All of this puts tremendous strain on the people responsible for the grinder, while it can be avoided, quite easily. The only way to validate the actual health is by having a continuous look at a broad data set and adding a specific multi-aspect monitoring setup consisting of different sensor types that follow the behaviour of the grinders general state-of-health.
- Roller wear : Less wear means longer service intervals.Matching vibrations with operational parameters allows determining conditions with minimal wear.
- Product quality : Multiple stages in the process steer product quality. A continuous tracking of parameters in the different stages of the process allows obtaining maximal product quality.
- Table and roller interaction : The actual transformation takes place in between the table and the rollers. Optimal interaction between both results in maximal throughput and improved product quality. A dedicated monitoring approach allows optimizing these parameters.
- Spring tension : The force exerted on the product is governed by the spring characteristics. Maximum throughput can be reached when the interaction between the rollers and the table is optimized based on continuously measured data.
- Gearbox health overview : Heavy machines require strong gearboxes.Continuous tracking allows maximizing their operational life and predicting when they’ll fail.As such long outages can be prevented
- Bearing degradation : The bearings on the rollers suffer...hard. Even in these challenging conditions a continuous vibrational follow-up helps to identify when they reach end-of-life. Repairs can be scheduled and availability remains maxima
Our monitoring products are compatible with grinders of the following brands:
- Loesche
- Metso
- Outotec
- GEA
- Glencore
- NCP International
- FLSmidth
- Cemtec
- Sandvik
- ...
All of Zensor`s products are compatible with standard CMMS or EAM software. Connections can be set up to source the most recent interventions and changes on each asset, or to create a ticket when an intervention is required on a grinder. As such multiple grinder types on a single site can be tracked without any problem. Compatible with:
- IBM Maximo
- IFS Ultimo
- eMaint CMMS
- Aveva
- SAP
- ...
Learn more about our approach
- Performance : Based on the data collected and machine-learning based methods for determining the operational condition the performance is calculated.
- Quality : Coupling to existing databases or using human input fields the product quality is linked to operational process parameters.
- Warnings : Whenever values start to deviate, or data streams stop, warnings are sent. This avoids `black holes` in the insights of the production line or assets.
- Increase availability : Have a continuous idea of availability, automatically as the platform combines different input streams and contextual information.