Motornostix

Motornostix provides an online, web-based condition monitoring service for electrical and mechanical rotating machinery in equipment such as electrical motors, gearboxes, pumps, fans, rollers, crushers and compressors.

The Motornostix condition monitoring service is designed to pre-empt machine failure. If conditions for an existing or impending malfunction are identified, systems provide for immediate diagnostic alarms to be directed to designated personnel such as responsible plant staff members, consultants, OEM's or repairers.

The systems are non-intrusive and can be used either in fixed industrial situations or on mobile equipment such railway traction units. Motornostix systems can be installed either at the time of initial machine commissioning or later, as a retrofit.

Motornostix Sensors are attached externally to machine components to monitor vibration, temperature, electrical flux, tachometry, current signatures and process variables.

Sensors attached to machinery connect to an intelligent data-acquisition device – the Motornostix Canary, positioned at each motor. This uploads measured data to a computer (the Motornostix Scanner) located in the plant control room. The scanner wraps the data from all local Canary units and uploads it via the Internet to a centralized Motornostix Database. The Scanner raises high-priority alarms if connectivity to the Motornostix Database is lost.

At the database, incoming data is filtered through a neural network to check for variation in measured values. Diagnostic software tools are provided for technical analysis; these can be accessed by authorized users from anywhere in the world using a web browser.