The Vibration/ Condition monitoring Division is responsible for integrating Field equipment and Vibration Monitoring systems with existing or new PLC's and DCS systems. This division uses Vibration monitoring equipment from Rockwell Automation, Entek.

Industrial enterprises can now significantly increase production throughput by installing the revolutionary Rockwell Automation Entek® XM™ series integrated monitoring and protection system. The XM-series modules can communicate directly with PLC's and industrial displays through existing control network architectures such as DeviceNet, ControlNet or Ethernet/IP without using proprietary instrument racks back-planes or networks. This allows operation personnel to identify developing faults in their critical plant assets and take corrective actions before production is impacted or before safety is compromised. Additionally, maintenance personnel can utilize the predictive information sent from the XM modules to develop optimized schedules based upon the actual asset condition instead of the manufacturers' recommended Preventative Maintenance (PM) interval. This maintenance strategy has proven to significantly reduce maintenance costs and improve MRO spares management.

By using the XM technology, manufacturers also have unsurpassed critical machinery protection capabilities, which can be used to safely shutdown a machine before a major accident occurs. The modules are designed to meet and exceed international standards for machinery protection systems, such as American Petroleum Institute's 670 specification.

XM modules dramatically reduce installation time and cost because they utilize an open industry standard control bus architecture (DeviceNet), which greatly reduces the total wiring required, the length of wire runs and the complexity of the wiring scheme. XM modules are DIN-rail mounted and can be easily installed locally at the machine -- unlike traditional rack mounted systems, which require proprietary panels and, typically, far more benign operating environments. The XM data modules can be quickly configured to handle a wide variety of dynamic inputs – such as vibration accelerometers, eddy-current displacement probes and speed tachometers – as well as process parameters such as temperature, pressure, and flow.

  XM technology lowers commissioning time since the control bus architecture reduces wiring connection errors typically encountered with traditional systems. Each XM module is hot-swappable supporting Automatic Devise Replacement (ADR), and offer the same separate terminal base and module architecture as Allen Bradley's Flex I/O series. These features together with field upgradeable firmware, local and remote (network) configurations and standards based (ODVA) designs ensure that XM is the most serviceable and easily installed condition-monitoring system available.

Engineers at Prudent, possess the necessary experience to build VM systems and integrate and commission them with field devices. Support is available 12X7.

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