This year, the IEN Europe Award for the most innovative product of the past twelve months went to Schaeffler for their FAG SmartCheck, an online condition monitoring device for industrial plant and machinery. As usual, the prize was handed over during HANNOVER MESSE, the world's largest industrial trade show.
In an online poll, more than 30 percent of the IEN readers and users voted for the condition monitoring system, which not only monitors vibration and temperature, but also a range of other machine and process-specific parameters such as pressure and flow rate. The device is good for the online monitoring of small, process critical and non-process critical plant and machinery, including machine tools, spindles, motors, drives, pumps, compressors, HVAC systems and gearboxes.
In the upcoming June issue of IEN Europe you will find an in-depth interview with Diethelm Schüller, Product Manager Condition Monitoring at Schaeffler, and Volker Erberich, Service Manager OEM. Both will talk about how the system was received by the market, and also inform about Schaeffler's new development in that area, which was launched at the show in early April.
