Monitoring, managing and tracking an asset in real time is very easy with TRACTIAN! Today I will explain to you how the system works, what the technology is like and even the automatic warnings. Hey guys, I'm Hugo from the TRACTIAN team and I'm here to explain our online maintenance system in a little more detail!
TRACTIAN was born with the mission to make life easier for maintenance professionals, offering a solution that really works and is easy to implement. We are constantly cross-referencing machine data around Brazil and the world to bring peace to frontline professionals in the industry. Talking to several customers, we heard several reports: "Oh, it's normal for me to go to the factory on the weekend, I stop enjoying the family, I stop enjoying football, and I'm going to put my belly against the machine if not the factory is stopped!
" "They're always charging me to cut costs with the correctives! They're always complaining that the correctives are too high! " Among many other situations such as "preventive maintenance is practiced but it is not enough", "there's so much rush that there is no time to do almost anything, much less follow the maintenance planning", "employee safety", and the list goes on.
. It is precisely to reduce these problems, which make the maintenance professional's life so complicated and busy, that TRACTIAN exists! Now that you understand our motivation, let's explain how we make our customers' lives easier and simpler!
With TRACTIAN's system, maintenance professionals are able to monitor real-time and online vibration, temperature, hours worked and energy consumption of your plant's critical assets, so you can deliver more efficient results, reduce costs and make informed decisions based on data. The sensors are extremely easy to deploy and in as little as 3 minutes you can start collecting data from your machines. They don't need industrial wi-fi and the data is sent over 3G/4G cellular network - so none of it involves IT, bureaucracy, specific infrastructure, just plug in and start using.
As simple to implement on an asset as using a band-aid. It's literally "gluing" through the magnets and enabling the sensor with the cell phone. In other words, you don't need specific training or long weeks of implementation to start having results and you don't even need to worry about the data collection process, like a computer or server just to receive and process this data.
The information is automatically sent and processed in our cloud. But how does all this work? After gluing the sensor to your machine and starting to collect data, the platform starts training to identify the equipment's operating pattern.
This process is carried out by the artificial intelligence embedded in the sensor, which will detect the DNA of your asset and the pattern of behavior expected from it. With our technology, you can monitor more than 30 categories of machines, such as compressors, electric motors, fans, pumps, bearings, chillers, presses, etc. We are present in more than 100 industries from different segments such as Metal/Foundry, Food, Beverages, Automotive, as well as industries from different countries.
So what helps a pump in a paper mill to run more efficiently also helps the same pump in a beverage mill to perform in the same way. It is thanks to this training and the crossing of data from thousands of machines that the system will know when an anomaly or deviation from the standard is about to happen and warn you before the problem actually happens. Automatic alerts are sent to your computer, tablet or cell phone, and can also be viewed directly on the platform, allowing you, the maintenance manager, together with your team, to schedule maintenance in a much more assertive way, avoiding high costs of corrective maintenance.
On the platform, which in addition to having Online Monitoring of your assets, is also the Maintenance Management System with technical reports, operational histories, work order automation based on the hour meter and several other metrics that can be parameterized according to the context use and maintenance planning and control. With the collection of data sent by our sensors, the platform and system show in real time the data and analysis about the health of your equipment, and in case there is any anomaly, the alerts can be divided into two broad categories: Specific Failure Detection - here we can anticipate the failure and point out exactly what kind of problem is happening; and Generalist Failure Detection - Here is where we catch the beginning of the failure and let us know that something is going awry! For example, if a pump is exhibiting misalignment characteristics, the system automatically identifies the problem, through spectrum analysis, before any visible symptoms appear.
That is, our system is able to identify failures at an early stage, before something more serious happens. When a failure is detected, it is very important that someone from the maintenance team analyze the alert, that is, point out the information according to the real state of the asset - Was it a serious failure? How serious?
What was done? When was it done? Who did it?
This is important, because in addition to creating a history of the asset, it serves as information for artificial intelligence to optimize its detection and deliver increasingly assertive alerts. No rushing with unexpected breaks, staying overnight or missing a weekend at the factory. Because with TRACTIAN, you monitor the operation and plan the operations of the maintenance team to better use your time and resources, while prolonging the life of equipment, without having to stop production.
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