Help your machinery fight for its life

Your machinery is at war. It’s fighting against wear and tear. It’s being ambushed by excessive vibration and high operating temperatures. Perhaps it’s even being unintentionally sabotaged by maintenance or lubrication failings. That’s why you need reinforcements to help you maintain production, productivity and efficiency. And SKF Axios is your new first line of defence. 

For maintaining your machinery at its optimum, defence is the best form of attack. Knowing in advance that your asset is developing a fault means you can take pre-emptive action before that fault becomes a failure. A predictive maintenance solution gives you inside intelligence about your assets, keeps you aware of their condition, and helps you to stay one step ahead of issues and potential problems.

SKF Axios is exactly that solution. It’s highly effective – yet it’s simple, scalable, and able to improve its performance the longer it’s used. 
 

All the experience of SKF

As experts in rotating equipment, SKF know how your assets should perform, understand why they can fail, and have the experience to prevent that happening.

Now, with the unparalleled capabilities of Axios, they can help you to be even more aware of performance, to have even greater insight into failure modes, and be able to take action even sooner to prevent problems more effectively.

When Axios detects an anomaly needing action, a notification is sent immediately to users’ phones, tablets or PCs. Up to 100 users can be connected, to up to 100 assets per site. When the notification is received, the user either needs to make a visual inspection of the asset, or use a different data collection device to diagnose the issue.

Once the issue has been identified, it can be resolved by selecting the appropriate failure mode and required action in the app.  

All the power of Amazon

What makes SKF Axios more effective is the power behind the solution.

By working in collaboration with Amazon Web Services, SKF has been able to make Axios more scalable and more data-driven, with a machine-learning capability which helps it to continually improve its predictive maintenance capability.

Axios uses sensors mounted on your machinery, to continually collect temperature data, and vibration data in three axes. This data is then sent using Bluetooth to gateways, and through them to the AWS cloud via Wi-Fi or wired Ethernet connections.

The more data that’s gathered, the more aware Axios becomes of the optimum operating parameters for the asset. Which means it can then better identify anomalies, and alert you to the need for action.

As an SKF spokesperson explained, with Axios you can ‘make better decisions faster, improve your operational efficiency, and reduce the costs associated with unplanned equipment downtime.’ 

Simplicity from end to end

The power and capability of SKF Axios may make it sound complicated, or expensive. But the fact is, it’s simple to install and set-up, simple to operate, highly scalable and exceptionally cost-effective. Sensors and apps can be installed and operational in minutes, ready to identify anomalies and help to prevent failures and costly unplanned downtime.

Fight to win

When your job is to keep machinery running with optimum efficiency, maximum uptime and ever-increasing productivity, every day is a battle – and you are the General.

But with SKF Axios as your new first line of defence,  you’re giving yourself more than just a fighting chance.

Find out more from your usual ERIKS representative. And make sure you end up on the winning side.

For more information on Condition Montoring, contact your local ERIKS Service Centre who will be happy to discuss your options

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