Digital infrastructure makes the IoT available in practice

26 September, 2017

This gives the customer direct access to services such as Schaeffler’s automated rolling bearing diagnosis, which is based on the vibration data that the FAG SmartCheck has gathered from rolling bearings as well as shafts and other rotating components. Depending on the contract, the customer gains access to the condition data, partially-automated recommended actions or, in the case of more complex machines, a connection to the Schaeffler Service Centre, which provides specific and individual recommended actions.

In the next stage, it will also be possible to use the SmartCheck to record speed and torque and to classify this load data. In the Cloud, the Bearinx rolling bearing calculation software tool is then used to compare the actual load data with the fundamental load data used during the design phase, and the rolling bearing’s remaining useful life is then calculated on this basis. These applications will be available for all products based on the SmartCheck technology, including railway technology applications such as those presented by Schaeffler at InnoTrans 2016.

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