3rd Party Remote Call Monitoring Feature

In today's global manufacturing environment, organizations have to manage their resources effectively throughout the lifecycle of the product. If these resources are not managed properly, it becomes very difficult to deliver value while maintaining cost of ownership that is profitable. Therefore, all the machinery must be used to maximum potential throughout the entire lifecycle while minimizing cost of ownership through operation and maintenance. One way of optimizing machine productivity and efficiency is with proper monitoring.

With more than 100 years of experience in the machinery industry, SKF has been providing bearings, seals, lubrication, linear motion, actuation and mechatronics solutions for OEM’s in every major industry. The company is involved in specification, design, development, manufacturing and testing, which gives it a clear vantage point for delivering globally recognized world-class condition monitoring solutions.

The SKF @ptitude Connect is a cloud computing resource for condition monitoring software to give engineers access to resources for improving plant efficiency. By providing instant access to SKF condition monitoring software, organizations are able to implement plant-wide or enterprise-wide Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) and/or Predictive Maintenance (PdM) program online.

Once these programs have been established, engineers will be able to access machine data, display machine conditions, view printable diagnostic reports and run different analyses remotely. By using the software in the cloud, subscription-based customers can monitor their equipment at all times to ensure reliability and availability without running into costly downtimes.

The SKF solutions gives OEM and aftermarket customers more control with greater transparency to improve overall operations, which translates to faster time to market while lowering key metrics of inefficiency. With this cloud monitoring solution organizations can move from CAPEX to OPEX (News - Alert) and save with:

• Reduced IT start-up costs
• Reduced maintenance and IT operating costs
• Scalable to meet changing demands
• Standardized CBM technologies
• Global accessibility and collaborative support

"With SKF @ptitude Connect, customers can improve plant equipment reliability, increase equipment/asset availability and reduce initial capital investments for predictive maintenance program start-up costs. The solution is also flexible in the sense that it is scalable to demand. It is about solving and saving," said Luis F Econom, asset diagnostic services and systems engineering manager.

The platform is ISO 27001 and SSAE16 compliant with data integrity in key areas to ensure sensitive assets are protected at all times during data access, data transmission, data storage and data center access.