 SWANtech offers a convenient way
to collect, correlate and present the equipment
condition information generated by
our SWANguard stress wave monitoring
modules. A plant or large facility may incorporate
dozens to hundreds of mechanical
assets that are critical to the operation of the
plant/facility.
SWANguard modules provide a
low-cost and superior means for continuous
monitoring of all of these assets. The
state of health information produced by
the SWANguard modules are polled by the SWANserver which collects,
archives, correlates, analyzes and presents this
data to plant personnel. The SWANserver is the ideal solution for centralized monitoring of plant critical assets.
A plant SWANserver can communicate
with any number of SWANguard
modules placed around the plant/mill/facility/
ship adjacent to the equipment assets they
are monitoring. It can communicate with all
of these modules via spread spectrum radio, wireless LAN
WiFi, via EIA-232 and EIA-485 serial
links, fiber optic links and even over a plant Ethernet LAN.
The SWANserver constantly collects and
archives the key stress wave measurements
from all SWANguard modules, as well as
retrieving special data records generated
within the SWANguards when they identify
increased and/or excessive changes in stress
wave energy. All of this data is stored into
relational database tables in the SWANserver
and used to generate a range of asset
condition reports and displays as well as for
statistical asset analysis purposes.
The SWANserver provides a large number
of web-based informational displays
that are available to designated plant personnel
at their desktop PCs, over the plant
LAN, based on user ID and job category.
If the SWANserver is interfaced into
a corporate WAN then remote user access
is also supported. Stress wave energy, as
monitored by the SWANguard modules, is
impacted by the operating conditions of the
plant assets. This provides for identification
of preferable operational conditions that
extend asset life, based on the SWANserver
being able to monitor and correlate relevant
plant measurements.
The SWANserver can interface with
plant control systems, using OPC or Modbus [serial or IP], to obtain the necessary
operational data. It can also format
asset condition information into XML web
pages or CSV data files for M2M delivery to corporate and plant asset management and maintenance management systems..
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