At Norsk Stein‘s Jelsa plant in Norway, the machines‘ drive units in particular are subject to heavy loads. To counteract unplanned downtime, the company previously relied on offline condition monitoring systems. These measurements only partially recognised imminent damage. This was no longer sufficient for the maintenance team. Norsk Stein was therefore looking for a predictive condition monitoring solution. Following a review of several systems, maintenance staff at Jelsa selected the condition monitoring solution OPTIME CM as their preferred solution. In the first step, OPTIME CM was used for several of the drive units. ProLink CMS followed for the bearing monitoring of the cone crushers. In addition, pilots were run with the automatic lubricator CONCEPT1 and the smart lubricator OPTIME C1, filled with Arcanol grease, as well as with two coated bearings.  

Result:

• In the first year of using OPTIME CM, several several incidents of unplanned downtime were prevented.

• The OPTIME CM was also implemented in another Norwegian plant.