How Condition Monitoring Can Benefit Conveyor Motors

Conveyors play essential roles in the modern facility. In a sorting application, for example, one or more actuators divert product from the primary conveyor to the take away conveyors. This can be used to set up products for multi-packs, case parking, and palletizing. Some systems have a throughput of up to 100 cases per minute. If the conveyor fails, the sorting point becomes a major chokepoint, making it impossible to get finished product shipped from the factory.

To prevent costly downtime due to motor failure, conveyor motor condition monitoring is can be used to predict failures before they occur.

Why Conveyor Motor Condition Monitoring Is Crucial

Conveyors used to move bulk grain present a different sort of risk. The material generates dust and chaff that builds up on the equipment. These deposits can be a particular problem around bearings and motor shafts, increasing friction and heat and causing them to fail prematurely. Worse, extreme heat can ignite the material, causing fires. Fortunately, dust and chaff deposits induced changes in the vibration signature of the equipment long before catastrophic issues arise. This makes them good candidates for conveyor motor vibration analysis.

The Benefits of Remote Conveyor Motor Vibration Monitoring

Most conveyor motors are easy to access. That would appear to make them good candidates for route-based vibration monitoring. The problem is that the manual approach only reveals condition at the time of the reading and no guarantee that they won’t fail immediately after. The solution is continuous online conveyor motor monitoring.

Keep Equipment Running with a Conveyor Vibration Monitoring System

Conveyor motors are often under 50HP and difficult to justify traditional local server-based systems. However, conveyor motors in particular are often critical to production with little room for downtime. Thankfully, the new generation of affordable cloud-based online condition monitoring systems makes it economically viable to maintain a close watch on the equipment, detecting issues and preempting downtime.

With conveyor motor vibration monitoring systems such as the Dynapar OnSite system installed, you can identify potential issues and address them before they develop further. You’ll be able to keep your operations cost-effective and efficient without the inconveniences of server-based or manual conveyor condition monitoring.