ID: TS8048
Abstract: Cooling tower gearbox failures can result in repair costs of over $100,000 and potentially cause huge personnel safety concerns. In the past, obtaining valuable information on the condition of these gearboxes has been difficult or near impossible. At this session, learn about the installation of multiple CompactRIO devices and NI InsightCM™ Enterprise software to obtain and analyze vibration information for a 10-cell cooling tower. The installation monitors the vibrations of several pumps, motors, and gearboxes. With advanced online condition monitoring hardware and software from NI, OpX Consulting’s client now expects to avoid similar failures in the future by determining the health of these gearboxes in near real time.
Speaker: Jay Rosen, OpX Consulting LLC, Vice President
