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cons and class-leading features you would expect from FLIR.’ E-Series is a successful combination of strong industrial design and lightweight materials. The result is a camera that is ergonomically a pleasure to use and one that will not weigh you down as you go about your business, whatever the application. ‘We expect demand for the E-Series to come from a wide spectrum of sectors including manufacturing, R & D, automotive, electronics, logistics, renewable energy, construction and HVAC all looking for value for money, user-friendly thermal imager rugged enough to take it and still deliver superior image quality.’ FLIR E-Series boasts a host of new features including: • Thumbnail JPEG image gallery • High thermal sensitivity Accuracy ± 2% and 0.1°C • Long life battery 4 hours • Fusion Picture-in-Picture (P-I-P) • Copy images to USB • Thermal fusion (E40/E50) • Instant reports (E60) • Text and voice annotations • Transmit images to smart iphone or tablet PC www.flir.com Maintenance News Marine Software’s PM Job Lock U.K. based Marine Software Ltd have successfully supplied their MPM - Marine Planned Maintenance solution to Swedish based Rederi AB Uman. These PMS systems will be installed on three Gibraltar flagged self-discharging general cargo vessels, which operate mainly in the Baltic and North Sea regions. Marine Software also delivered a central OPM – Office Planned Maintenance system for Rederi AB Uman’s Karlshamn office. This provides all shore side technical staff the ability to monitor fleet maintenance status ashore. Reederei AB Uman were very interested in the “PM Job Lock” module, to ensure once the MPM database was operational onboard, that no crew member would be able to make Job Card amendments to job instructions or interval periods, even as the system administrator. The central office OPM users could then control these changes ashore and submit simple job card update files to the vessels for the reflective changes to be made. This type of control is becoming increasingly popular throughout Marine Software’s client base, as it ensures on-going database integrity especially for same class sister vessels. Mr Björn Holm, Fleet Manager Comments: “For us the choice of planned maintenance system was simple; a user-friendly program with a lot of module functions that can be built on to fit just our organisation, and a great support function as well.“ www.marinesoftware.co.uk Guohua Wind Turbines Choose SKF Remote Monitoring When the fourth biggest wind farm operator in China increases their installed capacity by 50% within one year, that indicates a company that knows its business. And one of the business aspects that all wind farm operators need to take care of is “turbine reliability” – keeping the turbines turning as much as possible and keeping maintenance activities down to a minimum. Reduced or controlled maintenance is always a valuable contribution to bottom line profitability, but when you’ve got 2000 MW of installed capacity then you are talking about huge 54 amounts of money. That is why Mr. Zhou Weihua, Deputy General Manager of the Production Department, took a decision in 2008 to evaluate his maintenance strategy and the technology to be applied within that strategy. A critical decision was to look for the most reliable and experienced way to determine the health of his turbines in the fastest and most effective way. With a few different turbine designs and sizes out in the field he needed the best possible way to get reliable and regular information about the general condition of selected turbines of these designs and types. At the same time he wanted identify any typical negative trends that might occur in the various, but differing, field operating conditions that the turbines would be deployed to. Not being satisfied with his previous assessment process of only using temperature readings of gearbox oil and generator bearing housings, he wanted to investigate on-line monitoring, where vibration signals from critical components are collected 24 hours a day and analysed to determine exactly if and where problems are developing, and how severe any problems were. This type of monitoring would also provide valuable knowledge that could allow critical maintenance to be planned and avoid unexpected and very costly breakdowns. His first step was to make a deep investigation of what technology was available and the quality and knowledge of the suppliers. These investigations covered all the key suppliers of such technology but contacts with other wind farm operators in China quickly brought him to consider SKF and their turbine monitoring system for further discussions. After direct contact with SKF, I heard that they had recently been successful with remote online monitoring, where data from the monitored turbine in the wind farm were transmitted by Internet to their specialists for analysis. In order to get first hand experience of their remote on-line capability he visited their Intelligence Centre Wind (ICW), their major wind turbine diagnostic centre in Hamburg, Germany”. “In Hamburg I saw examples of almost all the capabilities of a SKF WinCon system, because there were so many systems deployed in so many wind farms. The level of detail that the system could give was clearly demonstrated, and the explanations by the people making the analysis clearly indicated that they knew all about wind turbines and the critical machinery. The Hamburg visit gave me the confidence to set up a field trial on some turbines in Guohua wind farms in 2009”. The field trial involved 11 SKF WindCon systems to be deployed across 3 wind farms; one in Jiangsu province, one in Shadong province and one in Inner Mongolia. Around the time SKF were installing their systems in the Guohua turbines SKF had opened a Remote Condition Monitoring Centre in Shanghai. Having SKF experts so close was an added benefit to Mr. Zhou and he was anxious to get the systems operating and see what the results would be. The data was collected on a local server at each wind farm and transmitted to an SKF server in Shanghai for analysis. Any immediate emergency situation would be reported at once but an ‘emergency situation’ was not detected at start up of the monitoring, and a report was issued once per month to the wind farm site managers and Mr Zhou. The reports contained the detailed vibration spectra for the key components being monitored, together with a brief statement that summarised the analysis of the data in terms of the condition of the component. But there was also a “report grid” that indicated the components being monitored and each one had one of 3 colours; green, yellow or red to give immediate indication of the condition, with green being OK, yellow being a slight to major Vol 24 No 2
Maintenance News deviation from the “acceptable levels or trends”, and red being something requiring immediate attention. The first results were good, because Mr Zhou could “see” for the first time what was really happening with his critical machinery. The SKF WindCon systems delivered the vibration spectra, similar to those he saw in Hamburg, and the SKF experts in Shanghai interpreted the data in terms of the condition of the bearings, potential misalignment, gear damage etc. During the six months to January 2010, the SKF WindCons provided good information on the turbines allowing Mr. Zhou to determine if and what maintenance would be required. In that period one of the installed SKF WindCons identified a severely damaged generator gearbox bearing at the Inner Mongolia wind farm. “The SKF WindCons did their job, said Mr. Zhou, they kept me informed and the early identification of the severity of the damaged bearing in Inner Mongolia was enough to allow us to plan for replacement at minimum cost and disturbance to the planned electricity supply from the turbine”. Since the tests Guohua have installed another 58 SKF WindCons and a further 280 have been ordered. www.skf.com Logica Australia Partners With IBM Logica Australia, a leading IT and business services provider, has announced it has expanded its asset management offering by signing a new agreement with IBM to resell, deliver and support Maximo® Asset Management. “Logica already has a very strong asset management practice in Australia,” said Paul Sargeant, Director, Enterprise Asset AMMJ Sponsors and Supporters 55 Management. “We have been working closely with our clients over the past 20 years to design, build and manage enterprise asset management solutions that help them gain maximum value from their asset life cycles.” “Our clients will now be able to procure this best of breed asset management software directly from Logica, packaged with certified professionals who understand the core benefits and challenges of integrating Maximo with exiting systems to simplify their processes,” added Sargeant. Maximo is asset management software that provides lifecycle and maintenance management for all asset types to help companies gain maximum value from their investment, business and IT assets within their lifecycle. The software provides a single platform to track enterprise assets, ICT assets, and mobility assets, and is a critical application for Logica’s clients in the energy and utilities, transport and logistics, engineering services, retail and public sectors. Logica is one of the few organisations that has IBM Maximo certified professionals working across both its sales and delivery teams. Logica’s skilled team supports clients with planning, implementation and the ongoing management of Maximo to remove the complexity and ensure a smooth transition. “The most effective asset management solutions are those that track assets across the whole enterprise, rather than taking a siloed approach for individual departments. We help our clients take this philosophy one step further by showing them where they can achieve additional benefits by integrating Maximo with other critical business systems and supporting this rollout,” said Sargeant. For more information on Maximo please visit: http://www-01.ibm. com/software/tivoli/products/maximo-asset-mgmt/ www.logica.com The AMMJ has been published since 1988 (originally as the Maintenance Journal). Our survival over those years has depended on the support given by our Advertisers. In these days of multi media options the AMMJ particularly wish to thank our major current Advertisers who have advertised with the AMMJ over many issues: PLATINUM Sponsor and Supporter (Inserts and Multiple Page Advertising) SKF Reliability Systems rs.marketing@skf.com www.skf.com.au www.skf.com.au/training GOLD Sponsors and Supporters (Full Page Advertising) ARMS Reliability www.globalreliability.com FLIR info@FLIR.com.au www.FLIR.com.au Infratherm info@infratherm.com.au www.infratherm.com.au OMCS International steve@omcsinternational.com www.reliabilityassurance.com SIRF Rt www.sirfrt.com.au www.rcart.com.au The Asset Partnership mail@assetpartnership.com www.assetpartnership.com SILVER Sponsors and Supporters (Half Page Advertising) Apt Risk Management www.aptgroup.com.au Assetivity www.assetivity.com.au You can show your support for the AMMJ by taking a look at the advertising in this issue and by visiting the advertiser’s web sites.
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