Sensors to implement new maintenance strategies

摘要

As manufacturers become increasingly aware of the skyrocketing cost of delayed maintenance, they wish to rapidly adopt new predictive maintenance programs. Monitoring technologies such as vibration analysis offer a promising answer to stemming rising costs due to damaged motors, pumps, gear boxes, fans, compressors and other equipment. But those monitoring technologies are only viable if they can be implemented effectively and afford-ably. By leveraging a proven MEMS process, a new breed of sensors offers the combination of performance, size, cost and reliability needed to make real-time continuous equipment monitoring widely available.