Everybody is talking about IOT (Internet of things) or Industry 4.0 – however you want to call it, it is no question that intelligent technology is getting more and more important. A product finds its own way through production, coordinating the relevant processing machine, organizing the material needed for its manufacturing and managing the dispatch.
Every component in a production system is highly stressed and will become prone to glitches at some point. FIBRO is following the strategy of recognizing faults before they occur. Not only faults relating to rotary tables such as wear, also faults on the outside that can affect the machine such as a crash. The technical term for this is called “Predictive Maintenance” (PM). High precision sensors monitor the condition of a rotary table, collect all data accumulated in the production process and warns you if a parameter doesn’t add up – for example for inconsistent oil temperature, fill level, quality or for a crash. Further parameters such as overload and imbalance are currently tested. In doing so it is possible to swap spare and wearing parts before a rotary table failure, or even offer suggestions on how to improve the processes and increase productivity.