F’IS and Voith join forces

Online vibration monitoring system from FAG service subsidiary to be integrated into future, Web-based process monitoring system for paper-making machinery

Herzogenrath, Germany, February 17, 2003 – Within the framework of a partnership agreement that has now been signed, two key participants in the global economy -- FAG Industrial Services GmbH (F’IS) and Voith Paper Automation, a division of Heidenheim-based Voith Paper -- will be collaborating on the integration of the FAG service subsidiary’s VibroCheck online vibration monitoring system into a comprehensive, Web-based process monitoring system for Voith paper-making machinery. The objective of the partnership between the two companies is to integrate VibroCheck into a seamless process control and monitoring system from Voith Paper that is consistent and undifferentiated in terms of user interface and data stream. Within the framework of this partnership, it will be possible in the future for Voith Paper, one of the world’s two largest manufacturers of paper-making machinery, to offer its customers “one stop shopping” for a complete system, including process control and monitoring. With the condition monitoring system from F’IS, Voith Paper will additionally be able to provide them with an innovative service instrument that affords continuous plant monitoring remotely from any point in the world over the Internet.

The VibroCheck online monitoring system from Herzogenrath-based F’IS is employed to continuously monitor elements of the machinery that assure its proper operation, such as antifriction bearings and gearboxes. Thanks to its modular expansion capability, up to 2,048 measurement points can be monitored by a single system. Consequently, the range of applications for the new system will extend to any operation in which numerous measurement points have to be monitored. In addition to paper mills, this would include rolling mills and powerplants. Because the VibroCheck system provides a high level of predictability and early identification of impending damage (imbalances, alignment errors, bearing and gearbox damage), it is possible to drastically reduce unscheduled downtime of major equipment, and thus costly production outages, while simultaneously avoiding expensive consequential damage.

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