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News Release from: Honeywell Field Solutions | Subject: OneWireless EHM
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 28 November 2007
New OneWireless equipment health
monitoring
OneWireless equipment health monitoring is the first wireless product to send complete spectral information for more efficient maintenance
Honeywell, in collaboration with SKF, has introduced OneWireless Equipment Health Monitoring (EHM), the latest addition to the Honeywell portfolio of industrial wireless solutions OneWireless EHM will wirelessly transmit complete spectral information - including vibration amplitude and operating parameter information - from the field to the plant control room, helping reduce equipment failures and improve business performance through lower maintenance costs
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 29 Oct 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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OneWireless EHM is a compact, eight-channel (4X vibration, 4X 4-20 mA) monitoring device that communicates over the Honeywell OneWireless industrial mesh network.
It collects acceleration, velocity, temperature and bearing condition data and delivers it to process operators and maintenance personnel to alert them of any equipment problems.
The device is a cost-effective and efficient alternative to the manual inspections that many industrial facilities employ to monitor the health of rotating equipment such as pumps, compressors and motors.
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"Wired equipment instrumentation solutions provide effective condition monitoring, but the equipment and installation costs may be impractical, and the few wireless alternatives are very limited in functionality and the information they provide," said Jeff Becker, global wireless business director for Honeywell Process Solutions: "OneWireless EHM provides all the information needed to pinpoint problems before equipment failure.
It acts as another set of eyes in the field and helps technicians better anticipate maintenance and avoid downtime".
OneWireless EHM includes everything necessary to capture and analyse equipment health information, including data acquisition equipment, database management software, and installation services.
The EHM software can deduce probable bearing defects, misalignment, pump cavitations and impeller wear.
The software can then translate the data into alarms that can be configured to appear in the plant distributed control system (DCS) and the Honeywell asset management platform.
Additionally, the system can be installed in less than four hours on a pre-installed OneWireless network and readily integrates with Honeywell DCS.
In addition to stand-alone OneWireless EHM components, Honeywell is currently offering OneWireless EHM starter kits, which contain everything necessary to wirelessly monitor between four and eight plant assets, depending on individual facility needs.
For more information about OneWireless and other Honeywell solutions that can improve business performance, visit the website.
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