"Condition monitoring plays a primary role in maintaining our extensive fleet of construction plant and equipment," Eric Baker, Concor Plant's technical manager, says. "This proactive approach has paid significant dividends in terms of eliminating mechanical failures and generally optimising our fleet's operational efficiency and performance. Since we engaged oil and fuel analysis specialists WearCheck to initiate a continuous programme of oil and wear particle analysis on our plant in 2009, the savings have been substantial."
Condition monitoring is a key element in planned maintenance, allowing remedial action to be taken to avoid the high cost and lost time consequences of component failure. Condition monitoring of plant and equipment is based on trend analysis and regular sampling. Concor Plant has close to four hundred major items being monitored on the WearCheck system and Baker says this goes a long way towards ensuring the reliability of the fleet.
