b'CASE STUDY1. The challenge 2. The solutionRS has worked with a leading global coffee manufacturer for nearly a Flagged to the engineer through an elevated vibration reading on thedecade, providing weekly onsite mobile condition monitoring and oil motor, the fault was repaired and the bearings replaced. The issue wasanalysis services at its UK processing plant. As part of a routine conditionso significant that left undetected it could have resulted in up to 24monitoring check, a condition monitoring engineer from the RS Maintenancehours downtime. Combined with the potential for a huge amount ofsolutions team discovered a bearing fault on a fan in the evaporator systemproduct wastage and the cost of a replacement motor, the total coststhat had gone undetected by the customer. The fault, which had developedwould have exceeded 250,000 for the customer.on a process-critical motor in the freeze dry section, was picked up using vibration analysis, a predictive maintenance method that can detect early issues in rotating machinery such as gearboxes, fans, shafts, motors and compressors.3. The outcomeThe benefits of condition monitoring for businesses are significant and Condition monitoring is one of the RS Maintenance Solutions and hastangible, cutting downtime by 40 per cent, reducing maintenance costs resulted in the reduction of potential outages for the customer in otherby half and extending the lifetime of assets by a third. For this particular areas. Vibration analysis has been employed on machinery critical to itscustomer, the results have been substantial. Rob Webster, Head of Onsiteoperations, such as its specialist spinning cone column machinery. Rob Condition Monitoring and Asset Management at RS Components says: adds: Using condition monitoring to analyse the health and performance Condition monitoring can identify decreased performance or potential of assets plays a key role in this customers productivity, helping themfor failure in machinery and in this instance, its saved the customer a keep on top of maintenance and keeping their machinery -huge amount of money. and business - moving.To put it into context, the total saved from this single fault find is more than the site has paid for its entire condition monitoring programme to date over a period of nearly eight years.'