Improving Productivity through Machine Monitoring

With the squeeze on investment in new machinery continuing to bite, production managers throughout the UK are urgently examining different methods of improving performances on existing equipment as one way of containing costs. In this context downtime monitoring techniques which provide accurate, consistent data on machine performance are coming into their own. The latest devices, based on microprocessors, can cost only £600 for use on individual machines (as the number of machines increases the cost per machine decreases), with performance raised to as much as 95 per cent efficiency.