Machine health monitoring at customers' fingertips with SKF Enlight QuickCollect

Bearings and rotaon specialist, SKF, is empowering customers to monitor machine health without the need for extensive training or diagnosc experse through its innovave Enlight QuickCollect.

Designed to make it easy to collect and interpret valuable machine data, SKF Enlight QuickCollect is helping customers to opmise their rotang equipment performance.

Previously, in order to collect machine and process data customers needed expensive equipment and had to depend on in-house experse to understand the data and diagnose machine problems effecvely. The SKF Enlight QuickCollect makes it easy for customers to get started and its entrylevel setup costs means that the capital expenditure is eliminated. As an affordable addion to the maintenance program, customers can collect valuable machine data and inspect and process this data swily and simply

This advanced innovaon combines a user-friendly SKF QuickCollect Sensor with mobile SKF QuickCollect apps to simplify inspecon, process and machine health data collecon and analysis. By ulising the sensor and the apps, customers can easily start checking the 'on the spot' condion of their rotang machinery. In addion to rapid and effortless idenficaon of machine condion, this soluon assists customers to also capture, share and store inspecon as well as process machine health data across the company

The simple and rugged SKF QuickCollect handheld sensor monitors a wide array of issues relang to vibraon and temperature. The sensor transmits data wirelessly to an app on a mobile device, providing instant machine diagnoscs with the ability to store and share data for further analysis.

Customers can upgrade from the SKF QuickCollect app which delivers entry level, on-the-spot analysis, to the SKF DataCollect app to receive extended diagnosc capabilies, more detailed, colour-coded machine condion feedback based on ISO standards, customised forms for collecng all types of inspecon and process data as well as guided measurement support.

The SKF DataCollect app also delivers customised forms to collect a wide range of useful data from around the customer's facility. In addion to machine monitoring, operaons employees can perform visual inspecons guided by instrucons and record informaon such as pressures, lows, lubricaon levels, etc. Instrucons can also be provided for operators to clean and inspect equipment and to tell them when and how to seek help when needed. This type of inspecon data is invaluable to complement customers' maintenance programmes and can also be ulised to automate support for acvies such as plant safety and EHS audits, environmental /quality/air leak inspecons, equipment checks and lubricaon rounds. SKF QuickCollect assists the workforce to monitor plant machinery as limited training and no specialist skills are required.

There are a limited number of organisaons that hold a large body of inhouse experse on preventave maintenance, rotang equipment performance opmisaon and root cause analysis. SKF Enlight QuickCollect provides a soluon to this dilemma as SKF DataCollect also gives customers the ability to connect with SKF expert remote services with access to SKF's industry-leading diagnosc personnel and resources. In the event of customers requiring advanced support such as automated diagnoscs for example, they can conveniently connect directly with SKF remote diagnosc services giving them access to worldleading machine and bearing performance analysts – industry-leading experse and benchmark data at the customers' fingerps.