Honeywell introduces equipment health monitor

Offshore staff

BRUSSELS -- Honeywell, in collaboration with SKF, has introduced OneWireless EHM. The product wirelessly transmits complete spectral information – including vibration amplitude and operating parameter information – from the field to the plant control room.

The product is an eight-channel monitoring device that communicates over Honeywell's OneWireless industrial mesh network. It collects acceleration, velocity, temperature, and bearing condition data and delivers it to process operators and maintenance personnel to alert them of equipment problems.

OneWireless EHM includes everything necessary to capture and analyze equipment health information, including data acquisition equipment, database management software, and installation services.

The EHM software can deduce probable bearing defects, misalignment, pump cavitations, and impeller wear. The software can then translate the data into alarms that can be configured to appear in the plant's distributed control system (DCS) and Honeywell's asset management platform. The system can be installed in less than four hours on a pre-installed OneWireless network and readily integrates with Honeywell DCS.

11/27/2007