For more than 25 years, igus® has carried out condition monitoring on its products (e-chain systems, cables and polymer bearings) in its test laboratory, which at 3800m2, is the world’s biggest laboratory for dynamic energy transfer applications. For the last 14 years, condition monitoring tests using more than 1,000 installed push/pull force detection systems have been carried out by igus. In 2018 based on this experience, igus® smart plastics launched the first cloud based IoT predictive maintenance lifetime calculation, with a clear indication of number of days until next recommended maintenance. Info regarding next suggested maintenance and alerts were displayed in a web browser and by email/SMS notification. At HMI 2019 igus® presented the first «offline» module «icom.plus» which interacts with the machine’s internal PLC. Last year igus® has renamed it›s predictive maintenance concept into a whole new product range: smart plastics - “i.Cee”.
igus® i.Cee provides predictive maintenance information for e-chain systems and polymer bearings to FIELD system. The dashboard app informs customers about the condition of the e-chain system by advising number of days until the next suggested maintenance. In addition to this predictive lifetime information, the i.Cee app has a feature for sending alerting messages in case of unexpected conditions or upcoming maintenance needs, which can be easily defined by the customer.
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