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Aluminium Processing Plant

Vibration Monitoring System for Cold Rolling Mills and Tension Leveler

The Challenge

Quality certainly equals money in the Aluminium processing business. So, when a strip rolling mill was experiencing critical vibrations, it was a major issue for a leading aluminium processing plant in the Middle East.

The iba system provides a state-of-the-art condition and vibration monitoring system. Since it had been installed, many critical downtimes have been avoided.

Business Benefits

Correlating vibration data and machine data
by using one data acquisition system only

Easy integration
into an existing Condition Monitoring System

Avoiding
critical downtimes


The Solution


Process data cannot be excluded when doing a critical evaluation fo any process plant. In this case the data recording is performed by a ibaPDA System while the process analysis is performed on collected data with the ibaAnalyzer.

The vibration monitoring however is performed on distributed edge devices. After acquiring the vibration data from accelerometers, the ibaPDA add-on ibaInSpectra is used to analyze this data. The ibaInSpectra utilizes a frequency band analysis. Consequently machine, process and product data is used to eliminate quality problems related to vibration of the system.


"The ibaInSpectra Condition Monitoring solution allows Aluminum processing operators to easily monitor its entire production motors with gears and predict their maintenance needs."

Omer Akhtar
System Engineer,
iba Gulf

iba Products


Measuring autonomously - Process connected - ibaDAQ
ibaDAQ 系列

ibaDAQ 系列的设备允许使用内置的 ibaPDA 系统和板载数据存储器采集本地数据。凭借全面的输出选项,您可以在任意位置访问这些设备所需的相关数据和信息。

Analysis of vibrations - ibaInSpectra
ibaInSpectra - 对过程振动进行实时状态监测

借助 ibaInSpectra,可以持续监控任何振动并在早期检测出可能的故障来源。由于 ibaInSpectra 库已集成在 ibaPDA 中,因此不仅可以完成纯振动分析,还可以确定振动效应与过程行为之间的可能关系。

Offline vibration analysis - ibaAnalyzer-InSpectra
ibaAnalyzer-InSpectra

现在可以添加ibaAnalyzer-InSpectra用来离线使用功能强大的ibaInSpectra库。首先,分析配置可以在ibaAnalyzer中离线设计和测试,然后将其传输到ibaPDA进行实时振动监测。


Key features of the used components

ibaDAQ is used as stand-alone unit to acquire and record data. ibaDAQ integrates a complete ibaPDA system and an internal solid-state disk (SSD) with sufficient memory space. The central unit is the heart of the iba modular system. It is connected with 4 Analog input modules. Which connect with accelerometers to collect vibration data directly from Gear boxes and motors. All channels are sampled synchronously with a rate of up to 40 kHz.

ibaInSpectra is used to continuously monitor any vibrations in real time in order to thus detect possible sources of error early on. As ibaInSpectra is integrated ibaPDA, not only mere vibration analyses are performed, but also possible relations between vibrational effects and process behaviour is immediately detected. By means of spectrum analysis, vibrations are monitored online and set into relation to other process parameters. When vibrations become critical to machine health or product quality, the plant operator is alarmed. In addition, a feedback in the plant control is implemented to automatically adjust the corresponding parameters.

ibaAnalyzer-InSpectra is the corresponding Add-on to ibaAnalyzer. Here it’s used to perform vibration analysis on collected data. With ibaAnalyzer-InSpectra it’s possible to search in existing collected data for anomalies and early signs of problems. It can be integrated in the vibration expert’s workflow the same way as conventional analysis software of handheld vibration measurement devices.

The advantage however is the fact that in combination with the ibaPDA-ibaDAQ system it’s easy to collect process and vibration data simultaneously and continuously or specifically triggered.

Vibration monitoring cold mill topology
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