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How Remote Monitoring & Diagnostics Improves Industry

Written by GCG Automation & Factory Solutions | Mar 15, 2024 2:13:43 PM

Diagnosing problems and keeping up with maintenance in industry can be difficult and expensive when things go wrong. With the improvement of technology and improving the efficiency of industry, there have been new developments in ways to monitor large machines to try and help keep up with maintenance. Remote Monitoring and Diagnostic (RM&D) technology has greatly improved the ability to keep up with issues in industry machines and systems.  
How RM&D Can Improve Industry:

Some examples of how production has improved using Remote Monitoring & Diagnostics is in the oil and gas industry. Oil and gas companies use large pumps in disparate locations, so by using a remote system, these pumps can be checked on from one central location.

Through the use of this technology companies have been able to detect a drop in pressure using the software, which the company responded to. This ultimately protected the pump from what would have caused damage to the seals and by noticing a pattern in the pumps, the company was able to realize the seal fluid needed replaced. This small change in pressure was an early indicator of a problem that would have shut down the plant temporarily, but using remote technology, the problem was fixed before it happened.