Customer Success Story

All Machines in View at All Times on a Dashboard

“Hiss” – for some people, the sound a beverage can makes when it’s opened is music to their ears

At a well-known global can manufacturer, several million sustainable beverage cans are produced per hour in Europe. The bodymaker, the pin oven, and other machines are heavily stressed in the process. To avoid unplanned machine downtime, the can manufacturer was looking for a condition monitoring solution that was above all one thing: easy to operate. Also, there had to be an easy way for the maintenance team to keep an eye on all the machines. Schaeffler’s certified service partner Faber Industrietechnik recommended the digital OPTIME Condition Monitoring solution. More than 5000 sensors monitor process-critical machines in all European plants of the customer. And they are successful: in a period of around two years, more than 500 critical faults have been detected and numerous early warnings have been given. Plans to extend the monitoring solution are underway.

Result: 180 unplanned downtimes avoided, or in equivalent hours: 360