Traditional Condition Monitoring Solutions
If there was a way to identify if and when an engine was having a problem or facing failure, we would all want to know about it...right? Well, there might be a new way to do this.
You might be thinking about traditional condition monitoring solutions. Well, I'm not the expert in that area, but I understand that condition monitoring has been around for years, but has significant limitations, especially when dealing with remote applications.
Condition monitoring has traditionally involved someone going to the site of the equipment, running diagnostics, returning with the data, and analyzing it manually, etc. That doesn't quite seem up to par with today's cloud-based applications and connected world.
So, why can we set the alarm, lock our doors, change the thermostat and turn the lights on and off at our homes with a SmartPhone, but we can't monitor and manage expensive equipment driving critical applications somewhere in a remote location?
Automated Failure Detection and Prediction
If there is a way, we want to know about it. And we may have found one. We haven't seen it in action yet, but we have agreed to let the kind folks at CBM Enterprise come run a test demonstration on one of our units.
If you have any interest in this type of capability and would like to see it for yourself, we welcome you to come join us for the test run on August 12, 2014. See the full agenda and RSVP here.
We would love to know your take on remote monitoring. Perhaps, you're using something else, don't think you need it or don't believe it can be done. Regardless, we would like to hear from you. Please leave a comment below and let us know your thoughts.
