An integrated condition-monitoring system allows manufacturers to benefit from Rockwell Automation's integrated architecture system, rather than an isolated condition-monitoring device, to assess current equipment health, predict potential issues, and help avoid damage to critical machinery.
Integration of machinery health into control architectures using a standard Ethernet TCP/IP EtherNet/IP network brings unprecedented flexibility to machine instrumentation design and operational efficiency on the manufacturing floor.
"Industrial producers need a device that performs the full scope of protection and condition monitoring, and the Dynamix 1444 monitor does that while improving the ease of use and cost of such monitoring," said Pat Carle, product manager, Rockwell Automation. "The monitors can serve a broad range of applications because they are massively configurable."
Primarily used as a machinery protection system for rotating and reciprocating equipment, the monitors supervise critical operating parameters in real time. They also provide operations and maintenance personnel with the information to assess current equipment health and perform predictive-maintenance planning.
To protect equipment, the devices measure and monitor a machine's critical dynamic and position parameters, and assures appropriate actions are performed with the precision, reliability and performance required by industry and regulatory standards.
The tight coordination between condition monitoring and the control system allows manufacturers to leverage existing investments in visualisation and information solutions to improve machine builder and end user productivity, and lower total cost of ownership. For example, with Software Studio 5000 software from Rockwell Automation, users can deploy and maintain condition-monitoring programming in the same design environment used for automation control.
