January/February 2021

www.hpmag.co.uk HYDRAULICS & PNEUMATICS January/February 2021 39 contact the compressor distributor: “My air compressor is down / shows a fault / has alarm. How fast can you get someone here?” From this point, it may take several hours or even days before the issue is attended. In Touch-Free Monitoring we see any issues in real time and are therefore able to solve them before the user even knows about it. Real world cases, backed with data, have consistently shown how many compressors issues are caused by external factors. These include changes in power feed, cooling system or ambient conditions. The Touch-Free Technology itself has proven to be just as Care-Free “as promoted”. Fast reactions prevent loss of compressed air and thus, problems to your process or operations. And this, is where the real savings come from! To give an insight into what this actually means, here are some Real- World examples of how the Touch-Free monitoring saved the day: 1. A customer with a TT185 turbo compressor had an issue with their closed loop water pump. This dropped the cooling circuit pressure below set point, causing an alarm. Upon receiving a message from the compressor, the Monitoring team aligned the parameters for the cooling water pressure and the turbo compressor continued to run without disruptions, optimizing uptime. 2. The space where a TT185 turbo compressor operated was seeing temporary high temperature peaks. This caused alarms for high ambient temperature. The Monitoring team adjusted the delay for high ambient temperature alarms. This eliminated alarms from the temporary and short ambient temperature peaks. 3. The Touch-Free Monitoring engineer on duty received an early morning message from a compressor. The compressor had stopped. After reviewing the logged data, he concluded the power supply had lost one of the three phases. He called the customers plant operations team to ask for possible reasons for the fault. As it turned out, the entire plant was down for the external power supply failure and the plant operations did not know the reason until the Tamturbo team told them. What would have happened if these were old type air compressors? An alarm on the air compressor control panel would prompt a service call request and possibly a shutdown of the compressor. This, in turn, could have resulted to further disruptions and downtime. Most manufactures of course have remote monitoring now but can they fix the problem without attending site? With Touch-Free Monitoring, virtually all cases are resolved almost immediately, without sending anyone to physically work on the air compressor and without disruptions to the customer operations, hence ensuring more uptime. Interested? Then please contact Paul Sparke, your UK Tamturbo Team. Paul.sparke@tamturbo.com