HMUSA 2022 Conference: Avoid Unplanned Downtime with Intelligent Monitoring

About the presentation
Every minute counts in production plants. Unplanned downtime is unwelcome in any business unit, resulting in lost productivity, lost revenue and unhappy customers. New products can help manufacturing plants significantly reduce and eliminate unplanned downtime. Smart plastics from igus allow manufacturers to install components in energy chain systems, cables, and even bearings including connectivity and sensors. The information relayed by the components predict their service life and measure their wear and stress. It also indicates to the customer when they need to be replaced or require servicing. Intelligent plastics can be used in any industrial environment and offer significant advantages. Besides reduced downtime, tech-up cost-down advantages include extension of maximum service life, increase in overall plant efficiency, secure integration into Industry 4.0, decreased storage cost of spare parts, and reduced maintenance through early warning detection. During the presentation, Michael Patterson demonstrates how components including predictive maintenance and intelligent monitoring are integrated to improve productivity, reduce downtime, and boost revenue.

Registration
Powered by AMT and managed by GIE Media, The IMTS 2022 Conference features 69 different sessions you won’t want to miss so register today. Focused on a range of topics that include process innovation, plant operations, quality/inspection, and automation, The IMTS 2022 Conference addresses improving productivity; improving part quality; and developing a stable, competent workforce to lower the cost of manufacturing in the United States and create new levels of market demand.

Meet your presenter

Michael Patterson has worked for igus since 2013. Patterson’s focus is developing long-term partnerships by collaborating across various business lines to offer solutions for challenging engineering tasks.

About the company
igus GmbH develops and produces motion plastics. These lubrication-free, high-performance polymers improve technology and reduce costs wherever things move. In energy supplies, highly flexible cables, plain and linear bearings as well as lead screw technology made of tribo-polymers, igus is the worldwide market leader. The family-run company based in Cologne, Germany, is represented in 35 countries and employs 4,150 people across the globe. In 2020, igus generated a turnover of €727 million. Research in the industry's largest test laboratories constantly yields innovations and more security for users. 234,000 articles are available from stock and the service life can be calculated online. In recent years, the company has expanded by creating internal startups, e.g. for ball bearings, robot drives, 3D printing, the RBTX platform for Lean Robotics and intelligent "smart plastics" for Industry 4.0. Among the most important environmental investments are the "chainge" programme – recycling of used e-chains - and the participation in an enterprise that produces oil from plastic waste. (Plastic2Oil).