Enhance Your Existing Equipment with Machine Monitoring
April 4, 2025Older equipment is reliable, but without modern monitoring capabilities, it can limit your productivity. Machine monitoring solutions tailored specifically for legacy equipment can offer valuable insights into your operations, helping you improve efficiency without the expense of new machinery.
Why Machine Monitoring Matters
Machine monitoring provides essential visibility into equipment performance, enabling you to quickly identify and address downtime issues. By adding monitoring sensors to your existing machinery, you can easily track utilization and performance, helping you keep production running smoothly.
Monitoring Options
We typically see two practical options for legacy equipment:
- Basic Monitoring: Simple, affordable sensors that clearly indicate whether machines are running, idle, or stopped, giving you immediate visibility into machine uptime.
- Intermediate Monitoring: Provides additional metrics such as throughput and cycle counts, helping you optimize production schedules and efficiency.
Costs are modest and vary based on your specific needs, typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars per machine, with installations usually completed within a few days.
How Your Plant Benefits
Adding monitoring capabilities offers tangible benefits:
- Reduced downtime through quicker issue identification.
- Improved scheduling and resource utilization.
- Shift to proactive, cost-effective maintenance practices.
KY-MEP is Here to Help
The Kentucky Manufacturing Extension Partnership (KY-MEP) supports you through every step:
- Identifying the most suitable monitoring solutions.
- Facilitating quick installation and minimal operational disruption.
- Providing training and ongoing support to ensure you get the most out of your new monitoring system.
Ready to optimize your legacy equipment? Contact KY-MEP today to learn more about our machine monitoring solutions.
With 15 years of experience as an Automation Engineer, Cassidy Caid brings a deep understanding of advanced manufacturing and robotics to KY-MEP. At the Louisville Automation and Robotic Research Institute (LARRI) at UofL, he has spent the past two years driving innovation in automation solutions. A licensed electrician with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from UofL, Cassidy is currently completing his master’s thesis on robotic automation. When he’s not optimizing automation processes, you might find him balancing on his electric uni-cycle.
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