Why monitoring is necessary?

Designed by machine experts to evaluate the health of your rotating electrical assets – LIFEVIEW is a key component in reducing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) over the lifetime of a machine and an integral element of any Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) strategy.

An essential element of CBM is Condition Monitoring (CM) as this provides early warnings of critical problems so that a decision can be made on whether intervention is required, identifying when this is to take place to avoid unnecessary additional downtime and protect against costly damage.

The occurrence of sparks, arcs and electrical discharges is a sure indication that insulation problems exist. It is also likely that one or more of the following defects will be exhibited;

• Bar vibrations (loose wedges)
• ​End winding contamination
• Slot discharge
• Broken conductors

Partial Discharge (PD) results in failures such as earth faults, phase to-phase faults or shorted turns that will eventually cause defects leading to machine repair or rewind.

If a PD problem is identified early enough, the situation can be contained, providing you with the opportunity to plan an intervention, to take necessary corrective measures:

• ​Implement a temporary repair to enhance machine life
• Ensure necessary spares are available
• ​Plan for outage 

Why use LIFEVIEW?

• LIFEVIEW is flexible; with permanent or portable on-line analysis and can be installed on new machines or retro fitted at a later date
• LIFEVIEW is modular; sensors can be fitted / added as required, such as PD and Earth leakage
• LIFEVIEW is versatile; it will work off existing pre-fitted 3rd party PD sensors as well as with Quartzteq's own sensors

Simple to install and providing a unique approach to the monitoring of electrical machines the LIFEVIEW platform provides a system which can grow with the customer’s demand for more detailed machine condition information from one single device, with a range of parameters that can be measured.

• Partial Discharge (PD)
• ​Dissipation Factor (Tan Delta)
• ​Shaft Voltage
• ​Rotor Air Gap Flux
• Insulation Resistance (IR)
• ​Polarisation Index (PI)

A system developed by machine maintenance experts with more than 100 years of experience in rotating machines insulation systems and their specific PD problems, based on a daily experience in factory quality assurance, field testing and online monitoring.