Are you looking to optimize your production processes, increase up-time, and increase safety? All these can be achieved by monitoring the health parameters of your rope hoist. Using the latest technology, rope hoists can help you meet your lifting needs. Read on to learn about key aspects of monitoring the health of your rope hoist and the long-term benefits it delivers.
What Is Monitoring the Health of My Rope Hoist?
Monitoring the health of your rope hoist gives you more control in lifting applications because it allows you to receive real-time information. Now you can see your key KPIs outside the confines of your yearly inspections and maintenance. Health monitoring will keep you updated at any time so you can make changes to optimize your processes and know that your system is working properly. Types of information you can receive about your rope hoist includes:
- Hoist motor temperature and temperature inside the unit
- Runtime
- Emergency stops
- Predictive maintenance & condition of components
- Events and faults for troubleshooting
- Overload events
- Design limits
- And more
Rope hoist health monitoring is a key feature of our DVR rope hoists and contributes to their flexible configurations. When the hoist is equipped with the DMU condition monitoring device, you can simply check your rope hoist’s current diagnostics with the Demag Equipment App, making it an easy addition to your overall lifting system.
The Benefits of Health Monitoring for Your Rope Hoist
Health monitoring for your rope hoist offers many benefits facilitating a safer and an optimized lifting process. You’ll have a better understanding of how your rope hoist is performing with further advantages of health monitoring your rope hoist include:
- Increased safety – You’re able to view information that updates you on safety aspects so you can help prevent overloads, recognize performance issues, and more. Through this monitoring, you can prioritize safety in your work environment.
- Optimized maintenance – If your rope hoist is consistently being used, health monitoring can help predict when maintenance intervals are coming and life left in components like brakes. This optimizes the uptime in your facility and helps you reduce expenses on costly repairs, unexpected downtime and more.
- Increased production efficiency – Through regular monitoring, your business and employees will know exactly how the rope hoist is running, which will make lifting applications run more smoothly. This can contribute to improved throughput in your facility.
- Ability to receive updates anywhere – By using health monitoring, you can check how your rope hoist is performing without having to take a lift up to the hoist and plug in an interface. It can also allow your service company to diagnose and troubleshoot an issue without leaving the floor.
Data for future improvements – When you consistently receive data about your rope hoist operations, you can use this information to make improvements in your production processes.
FAQs About Health Monitoring Your Rope Hoist
What kind of information would I receive if I used rope hoist health monitoring?
With rope hoist monitoring, you’ll receive information such as overload warnings, malfunction notifications, reports on the current status of the rope hoist and its parts, and information on safety measures that need to be taken.
Which configurations of the DVR rope hoist features rope hoist health monitoring?
At Demag, we have four different configurations of DVR rope hoists that include health monitoring your rope hoist. Future rope hoists will also include this monitoring.
- F-DVR: Foot-Mounted Rope Hoist
- EK-DVR: Low-Headroom Monorail Hoist
- EU-DVR: Standard Headroom Trolley
- EZ-DVR: Double-Girder Trolley
What types of industries can use rope hoist health monitoring?
Rope hoist monitoring is versatile, and can be used in a wide variety of industries, such as:
- Aerospace
- Chemicals
- Construction
- Metal processing
- Machinery and equipment
- Wood products
- And more
Contact Demag for Your Rope Hoist Health Monitoring Needs
If you have any questions about health monitoring for your DVR rope hoist or require a rope hoist with health monitoring, feel free to contact us at any time, and we’ll respond quickly.