Wear Monitoring

PROGNOST® -NT Wear Monitoring provides wear trend plots of critical components. Thus development from normal wear to threatening damage becomes recognizable. The operator is advised by threshold violations and therefore wear-based damages become predictable and avoidable. Feature PROGNOST® -NT Wear Monitoring provides wear trend plots of critical components. Thus development from normal wear to threatening damage becomes recognizable. The operator is advised by threshold violations and therefore wear-based damages become predictable and avoidable. As a result, the number of machine stops decreases as well as the number of replaced components because components can be operated over their full wear potential.Machine outages to perform periodic manual inspections can be avoided when an accurate means to quantify remaining rider band potential is continuously available. Reliable and meaningful piston rod position PROGNOST® -NT uses the full revolution of the piston rod position signal to provide a precise piston rider ring wear calculation. The dynamic rod position signal is also used to monitor the mechanical condition of the piston rod and its connections. Used as a protection parameter for automatic shutdown, it is the only method to detect cracked piston rods before they fail.