Crane Electrical Insulation Monitoring in Potlines New CANDI™ 4.0 Development

摘要

The still on-going productivity improvement realized in potlines outlines the importance of the tending crane availability rate, which results from both their reliability and their easiness to repair. In the field of the crane electrical insulation monitoring-essential for ensuring operator safety and avoiding equipment damage, it is now expected that preliminary incidents being quickly tracked and fixed, in order to minimize the investigation time. This paper presents the new version 4.0 of the Fives ECL CANDI™ monitoring system. It deals with a new modular architecture, which allows its implementation on green field projects as well as on retrofitting ones; it also focuses on the evolution of the scanning which brings faster results. It finally presents the information the operating or maintenance people will benefit thanks to a thoroughly redesigned human-machine interface and new data transmission capabilities.