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News Release from: Siemens Automation and Drives | Subject: Siemens Automation and Drives' Flender service
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 31 July 2007
Maintenance contractor ups steel
productivity
Calling in an outside contracting service to maintain geared units using fault diagnosis systems has enabled a steel plant to reduce downtime and increase productivity.
By appointing Siemens Automation and Drives' Flender service team to maintain a range of specialist geared units - including Flender Cavex units - Corus Engineering Steels in Rotherham, UK, has reduced downtime and increased productivity At Corus, operations engineer, Matt Pitchford, said: "The Flender service has been excellent, particularly with regard to fault diagnosis via vibration and oil analysis by Steve Stratton, which has helped us target faults at planned stoppages before they become failures
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 9 Aug 2000 at 8.00am (UK)
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The refurbishment service has also been very good." Flender's preventative maintenance programme includes a general 'health check'.
The check includes oil and vibration analyses, torque readings, temperature and noise checks and general condition monitoring.
Running and static checks can be carried out.
The static checks include looking inside the gear box to assess bearings, gears, and any damage or movement on the shafts.
The telediagnostic Flender GearController system is fully mobile and is increasingly being used for mobile condition monitoring.
Flender qualified engineers monitor and test equipment status.
They are often able to carry out repairs and maintenance on the spot, preventing unnecessary downtime.
Turnaround times are vitally important to Corus as often only small numbers of spares are available in their systems - and with the many different types of gear units involved, this can present quite a few challenges for the Corus and Flender engineers.
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