Equipment commonly included
Monitoring scope is selected from equipment criticality, failure consequence and maintenance access.
- Coal mills
- ID and FD fans
- Boiler feed and cooling-water pumps
- Motors and gearboxes
- Turbine auxiliaries
- Cooling-tower fans
Recommended measurement context
A useful record includes measurement direction, machine speed, operating load and the applicable machine state.
- Horizontal, vertical and axial points
- Drive-end and non-drive-end bearings
- Speed or tachometer reference
- Operating load or process state
- Event time and maintenance notes
Dashboard and alarm workflow
Operators need an immediate view of machine status while engineers need access to trend and spectrum evidence.
- Unit and machine hierarchy
- Latest warning or danger event
- Trend across selectable date ranges
- Waveform and FFT record
- Acknowledgement and action note
Implementation approach
Site survey, point mapping and network approval are completed before commissioning.
- Survey and nomenclature
- Sensor and junction-box installation
- Acquisition and server configuration
- Threshold review
- Training and handover