Module boosts predictive maintenance

The module calculates the remaining service life of the energy chain, cable, linear guide and/or plain bearings during their operation. By doing this, the service life of the system can be optimised, faults are detected and rectified at an early stage, and more accurate maintenance can be planned in advance.

i.Cee:local can be integrated over the Internet or without IoT connectivity over a local network, depending on customer requirements. The module monitors abrasion, measures tensile/push force and provides information about an impending overload in the energy chain or plastics system, using smart plastics sensors from igus.

The maintenance team can read real, accurate information about the condition of their plant using the i.Cee:local. The intelligent module bundles the data of all the smart plastics products used in the system and displays this for the maintenance engineer.

igus has authored open source i.Cee software, the brain of smart plastics, which resides in the I.Cee:local module. The first time the module is installed, the software is parameterised and thus adapted to the specific application that igus compares to its lifetime algorithms.

With i.Cee:local, maintenance can be planned ahead predictably, and faults can be detected in good time and thus plant failures prevented.

Costs for an early retrofit caused by using the maximum number of igus components can be reduced. In addition spare parts can be ordered automatically earlier, saving time. The i.Cee:local is suitable for all igus smart plastics products, from plain bearings to e-ketten, igus’ e-chain.

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