Different options for your wastewater treatment plant maintenance
Having equipment fail on you is never a pleasant experience. Reliability can be achieved in two main ways: purchasing high-quality equipment and having a proper service plan. You can take a first step towards properly maintaining your equipment by scheduling periodic or preventive service at certain intervals. Then there is predictive maintenance. New monitoring options allow you to monitor your equipment closely and keep it in mint condition by predicting when your equipment needs service.
Preventive maintenance
When you buy a piece of equipment, it comes with a recommendation of how often the product should be maintained and how. That interval can depend on how often or for how long the machine is used. If you adhere to that schedule, then you can have some peace of mind that your blower will continue to perform as expected. Preventive maintenance includes checking the equipment periodically. Depending on the task, these checks may be performed daily, others weekly, monthly or even yearly. Preventive maintenance also means replacing worn parts, filters and operating fluids. In other words, it eliminates some of the most common causes of blower breakdowns. Monitoring technologies can help with these tasks by providing you with important data.
Predictive maintenance
Thanks to new technologies and connectivity options, there are now even more ways to monitor the performance of your blower and to anticipate issues before they become problems.
Using real-time data and analysis tools, they can detect any change to the equipment’s performance and look for or suggest a cause.
For example, instead of doing a daily visual inspection to monitor the oil temperature, a blower with monitoring options can detect potentially reduced cooling and overheating for you. You will receive an alert immediately and can act right away. Predictive maintenance also has the benefit of extending your traditional maintenance intervals. Sometimes, a worn part is still working optimally beyond its predicted service life and doesn’t have to be replaced yet.
Some manufacturers even allow you the option of transmitting all relevant data to them and then having their experts keep an eye on things for you.
Service as a way of saving costs
When you decide which type of maintenance to choose, or which combination of options, keep in mind that you should not view maintenance as a cost factor. In most cases, not performing maintenance will end up costing you much more in broken down equipment, expensive repairs and costly downtimes.
