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Here you will find product news and special topics on industrial maintenance as described by enterprises during previous exhibitions. Click on the title to call up the complete papers (pdf-format) including addresses and contact information.
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Date: 30.09.2006
Exhibitor: Flir Systems GmbH

A new handheld infrared camera gives professional thermographers a state-of-the-art instrument for preventive maintenance

Key words:
 thermal imaging, infrared camera
systems, condition monitoring, error identification

FLIR Systems launches the world’s first handheld infrared camera with 640 x 480 pixels non-cooled microbolometer detector: ThermaCAMTM P640. P640 realizes a new type of camera concept, which enables due to its ergonomical design optimised thermal imaging for...
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Date: 29.9.2006
Exhibitor: StepConsult GmbH

Time-saving TPM®-implementation
for SME’s through TPM-Compact
 


Key words: maintenance optimisation methods, 
maintenance consulting, TPM

Advanced implementation of maintenance improvements is part of the normal procedures in large enterprises. SME’s may now also profit from such options to introduce optimisation process in a time and cost saving manner. TPM-Compact is know-how imparted by...

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Date: 26.9.2006
Exhibitor: Dynamic Logistics Consulting
               GmbH & Co. KG

Service potential analysis cuts costs for maintenance and customer service systems using SAP

Key words: maintenance optimisation methods,
maintenance software for SAP systems, consulting

A new software tool analyses service processes and uncovers savings potentials, which derive not only from transaction and master data, but also from system settings. This translates into a new quality of analysis. The result is...

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Date: 26.09.2006
Exhibitor: Institut für Instandhaltung und Korrosionsschutztechnik IFINKOR gGmbH

TRA - Technical risk analysis for greater
operational availability

 
Key words: risk analysis, maintenance
optimisation methods, maintenance software 

TRA is practical method to optimize the maintenance of technical systems in a sustainable way. Enterprises using TRA increase the availability of their production plants, evade plant down times and may reduce costs through a modest investment...
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Date: 14.09.2006
Exhibitor: Hydra Tight GmbH

Hydratight Sweeney ensures flange
integrity on new offshore gas platforms

 
Key words: controlled bolt tightening,
maintenance system for high pressure flanges 

Specially developed Joint Integrity Management System (JIMS) employed to safeguard continued offshore maintenance of high pressure flanges to avoid leakages or time-consuming reworking of flanges... ________________________________________________________________________________

Date: 06.09.2006
Exhibitor: Kytölä Mess- und Regeltechnik 
               GmbH

Moisture entering your oil? Oilan provides
you with the exact data


Key words: condition monitoring, ingress of
moisture in lubrication systems

Kytölä Mess- und Regeltechnik GmbH's Oilan is an online condition monitoring device for early detection of moisture entering a lubrication system...

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Date: 05.09.2006
Exhibitor: Gesellschaft für
               Anwendungsberatung GmbH

Start of procedural analysis for mobile maintenance strategy at Airbus Deutschland

Key words: maintenance studies, mobile
maintenance systems, radio frequency identification

Gesellschaft zur Anwendungsberatung mbH (GAB) and Airbus Deutschland GmbH are evaluating the feasibility of introducing a mobile maintenance system...

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Date: 25.08.2006
Exhibitor: Flir Systems GmbH

InfraCAM™, a low-priced infrared camera launched for non-contact electrical inspections by smaller businesses

Key words: thermal imaging, infrared camera
systems, condition monitoring, error identification

Infrared thermography has become a full-fledged, standardised non-destructive, non-contact monitoring and diagnosis instrument for a wide range of industrial applications. Infrared cameras detect, spot and measure heat, which develops in virtually all electric applications prior to...

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Date: 21.08.2006
Exhibitor: Schötz Industrietechnik GmbH

Procurement of C-articles: Quite often still an unnecessarily expensive process

Key words: Kanban, kitting, warehousing,
Shop in factory®, inhouse assemblage

Requisition notes, enquiries, comparison of bids, placing orders, controlling, storage - who has not already encountered the time-taking and cumbersome process of ordering. To reduce costs, it is often necessary to introduce an effective C-parts-management...

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Date: 18.08.2006
Exhibitor: GST Gesellschaft fuer
               Schleiftechnik GmbH

Far from being a museum piece!
 
Key words: maintenance, overhaul
and refurbishing of used machines 

For almost 100 years the plate punching machine had been used for punching screening plates for seed graders and sorters. It was built in 1904 by Nikolaus Heid and was a masterpiece of mechanical design at the time. In 2001 the owner decided to have the machine modernized...
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Date: 16.08.2006
Exhibitor: Institut für Instandhaltung und Korrosionsschutztechnik IFINKOR gGmbH

Maintenance Check: a way to optimize your performance

Key words: consulting, maintenance
optimization methods

The Maintenance Check (MC) is a compilation of methods and tools to optimize maintenance procedures. Within the scope of MC all strengths and weaknesses, processes, motivation and qualification deficiencies as well as maintenance parameters are analysed and evaluated...

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Date: 10.08.2006
Exhibitor: Gesellschaft zur
               Anwendungsberatung GmbH

IPSS-Survey on the value of planning and controlling systems for professional maintenance purposes
 
Key words: evaluation of maintenance planning,
scheduling, and controlling systems, survey

Gesellschaft zur Anwendungsberatung (GAB) is executing a study to evaluate IPSS (maintenance planning and controlling systems), i.e. to identify the usefulness and real potential of IPSS...
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Date: 05.08.2006
Exhibitor: Kytölä Mess- und Regeltechnik 
               GmbH

OCU – individual flow control
for oil-circuit lubrication


Key words: lubricant monitoring, oil service

Kytölä Mess- und Regeltechnik GmbH offers a new design in the field of condition monitoring of oil-circuit testing points. The new OCU-Flow Controller is a consequent advancement to individually monitor testing points for oil-circuit lubrication...

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Date: 03.08.2006
Exhibitor: falch GmbH

High-pressure water jetting in lofty heights: Jura-Cement-plant’s smoke stack gets a general overhaul

Key words: mobile high-pressure water jet systems, 
repair & maintenance of concrete structures

Approximately 125 metres high is Jura-Cement’s plant chimney in Wildegg (Switzerland). It is considered to be Canton Aarau’s second tallest edifice. The smoke stack, having been built in 1965, badly needed maintenance repairs, as decomposition of the building’s foundations...
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Date: 17.07.2006
Exhibitor: Gesellschaft zur
               Anwendungsberatung GmbH

Wireless WAN (UMTS) – pushing innovation
in the field of mobile solutions

 
Key words: mobile maintenance management, 
processing online maintenance data by using UMTS technology 

Mobility poses a strong challenge to technology. Especially the online access to up-to-date information and realtime response is still a challenge to be met...
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Date: 12.07.2006
Exhibitor: GST Gesellschaft fuer
               Schleiftechnik GmbH

Modernisation will pay off

Key words: investing in modernization, 
overhaul and refurbishing of used machines 

With the modernisation of two Heid-MSO cylindrical grinders (originally commissioned in 1983) GST has demonstrated once again the possibilities of their retrofitting program. These machines were used for grinding transmission shafts and didn’t have a full machine enclosure. Damages due to dirt and wear…
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Date: 05.07.2006
Exhibitor: Kytölä Mess- und Regeltechnik 
               GmbH

Seal water monitor for double-action sealing
 
Key words: condition monitoring,
water pressure monitoring

The most recent version of SLM seal water monitor has been introduced onto the market. SLM-2 was specially designed for double-action sealing for floating ring shaft seals in pumps and other equipment. It enables to monitor and detect leakages much more precisely and faster...
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Date: 28.06.2006
Exhibitor: GST Gesellschaft fuer
               Schleiftechnik GmbH

One does not always have to invest in a new machine

Key words: modernization, overhaul, and
refurbishing of used machine tools 

Machine tools may develop production problems due to machine wear, a lack of spare parts, diminished functionality and increased safety risks. On the other hand, old machines do not necessarily become obsolete, just because their current productivity is not up to date…
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Date: 21.06.2006
Exhibitor: testo industrial services GmbH

Online management of measuring
and testing equipment


Key words: monitoring devices' monitoring and
management, calibration,
online external maintenance service 

PRIMAS Online is the customer-oriented web-based solution for all aspects of managing measuring and testing equipment. This novelty is available from now on...
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Date: 19.06.2006
Exhibitor: HYDAC Filtertechnik GmbH

Condition monitoring for hydraulic
fluids & lubricants


Key words: oil condition monitoring
(particle count, oil ageing),
fluids' water content

Through friction, technical wear, leakages, and excess temperature contaminations such as small particles and water may enter the service medium of aggregates. This may lead to machines, equipment and components being damaged. On top of that, fluids' normal ageing processes... ________________________________________________________________________________

Date: 07.06.2006
Exhibitor: FAG Industrial Services GmbH

F’IS monitors MULTIBRID M5000 offshore
wind turbine prototypes


Key words: Online condition monitoring,
wind farms, off-shore maintenance logistics 


Service and Online Condition Monitoring provided by F'IS for the first 5 MW-prototypes made by Multibrid guarantees early error detection through a modern surveillance system...
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Date: 02.06.2006
Exhibitor: Schickert GmbH & Co. KG

All-purpose cleaning equipment for an
efficient and solvent-free cleaning of
machines and parts


Key words: Mobile cleaning of machines
and components, cleaning method free of chemical solvents

During production and repair work even the most sophisticated precautionary measures can not preclude grime and smudge entering the process and infiltrating production output and assembly parts. Regular facility and equipment cleansing is therefore a major factor in securing...
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Date: 02.06.2006
Exhibitor: FAG Industrial Services GmbH

Excellent experience with F’IS solutions prompts Spenner to invest into safe-guarding their production once again
 
Key words: condition monitoring systems,
preventive maintenance, specialist's training 

Installation of F’IS-Condition-Monitoring-Systems in two other ball mills - intensive training of new staff members to conduct self-dependent analysis...
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Date: 30.05.2006
Exhibitor: Schickert GmbH & Co. KG

Cleaning machines: Why and – even more important – how?

Key words: Machine cleansing, low pressure
cleaning, hot water cleaning, removal of cooling lubricant residues

Every day machines are built to run one day after the other, not withstanding the fact that conditions can be ever so different. But even the best precautionary measures can not stop smudge and grime to accumulate during production processes...

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Date: 26.05.2006
Exhibitor: Gesellschaft zur
               Anwendungsberatung GmbH

Kick-off for 2nd generation mobile maintenance 

Key words: RFID-tags, mobile maintenance
management, SAP, facility parts identification

On Wednesday, 10th of May 2006, GAB in co-operation with Rhein Papier maintenance staff implementend the first RFID-tags at the Hürth plant, introducing mobile maintenance solutions for the paper and pulp production facility...

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Date: 22.05.2006
Exhibitor: SDNORD Systeme & Dienste   
               GmbH

Fluidas makes TRGS 611 a merit of necessity

Key words: Cooling lubricant, maintenance cycles, changeover operations, work safety, reporting

For manufacturing machine tools the operator of cooling lubricants has to observe regulations regarding hazardous materials, such as the German rules TRGS 611 und BG Regel 143 concerning handling of cooling lubricants. In these cases it is obligatory to implement...
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Date: 22.05.2006
Exhibitor: Schötz Industrietechnik GmbH

Hits by kits
 
Key words: Kitting, procurement, Kanban,
assembly systems 

On a hit list of the most efficient procurement systems kits should always rank within the top ten. Kitting saves time and reduces complexity as well as total costs during the procurement process through intelligent packaging...