Thermo-diagnostics of USB carrier drives

There are occasional failures of carrier drives on the UBS line in the Kvasiny Paint Shop. So far, the production line has been without any predictive system to warn of any imminent failure. That is why our colleagues from Kvasiny contacted us with a request for help. So we offered them to use thermo-diagnostics as an option, which we have developed ourselves at Škoda FabLab. We can detect the rising temperature of a drive with this system, and so provide a timely warning of an impending failure.

The temperature of the UBS line carrier drives at the Kvasiny Paint Shop is measured at present by using this standard thermo-diagnostic system by Škoda FabLab. The system consisting of two thermal cameras stores the maximum, minimum and the differential temperature in the database, and based on the data evaluation, the maintenance team is warned in time that a drive failure is imminent. Data is being collected on this line, which will be used to set the limits for this condition monitoring measurement. After completing the data collection and collecting tens of thousands of measured values, we were able to define the maximum limit of 29.7 °C for the condition monitoring diagnostic system (see the attached photo).