Swedish sawmill Södra Wood Värö has placed an order for a large online system from SPM Instrument to monitor critical machines in the timber sorting, saw-line, and finishing sections, as the company said in the press release received by Lesprom Network.
After a thorough evaluation process, SPM Instrument was chosen to supply a combination of online systems from the Intellinova series, comprising three Intellinova Parallel EN units (sixteen channels for parallel vibration measurement), five Intellinova Compact units (eight vibration channels), and eighty three DuoTech accelerometers.
The Intellinova online system will be used to monitor the mechanical condition and lubrication condition of the electric motors for bark rotors in the de-barker, reducer, circular saws, rip saw, chipper, trimmer, and planer.
Jöran Holme, Maintenance Manager at Södra Wood, said: "In conjunction with the development of maintenance strategies for our A-rated machines, it became important to measure the degree of wear on our most critical machines in order to detect wear and tear early. The Södra Cell pulp mill in Värö has extensive experience in vibration measurement, and it was obvious for us to take advantage of the expertise and experience within Södra Wood and Södra Cell."
Södra Wood is part of the forestry Group Södra, one of Europe's leading suppliers of timber products, with customers in the construction industry, construction companies, carpenters, packaging industry, and wood processing industry.
