Customer Success Story
How Pallet Lifters Remain in Continuous Operation
At the Zentis plant in Aachen, Germany, the pallet lifters move tens of tons of fruity raw materials from A to B every day to make spreads or other fruit products.The gear motors and the bearings of the cable drums of the pallet lifters are subjected to heavy loads in the process. To avoid unplanned downtime, the company uses SmartChecks to monitor the pallet lifters. This way, the maintenance team can react to incipient damage at an early stage and plan accordingly.
Benefits
Early alerting in case of parameter increase
Undisturbed operation of all production lines
Plannable maintenance work
More safety and transparency
Integration into the customer‘s own control system for peace of mind
Remote service as well as competent personal contact for all matters
Challenge
Solution
The SmartConnect Box acts as a distributor for power supply and additional signals. It also considerably reduces the cabling work required. The complete engineering was monitored by Schaeffler experts on site.
What's Special
Savings
In the event of a pallet lifter failure, the first production losses occur after approximately two hours. Longer downtimes of the high rack warehouse have considerable consequences for all production lines.
Failure volume of production line in percent
After 4 hours | 60% |
After 6 hours | 90% |
Technical Details
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