Following a successful first phase, Swedish forestry group Södra is now investing in another one thousand wireless Airius LTE-M vibration sensors for its pulp mills in Mönsterås, Mörrum, and Värö. They are now moving on to acquire one thousand additional sensors to cover even more equipment. SPM Instrument's Airius measures triaxial vibration, using acceleration enveloping to detect problems such as gear and bearing faults, imbalance, and misalignment. The sensor is ideal for remote monitoring of standard production equipment such as fans, pumps, and motors and supports several different vibration measurement tasks per sensor with a user-defined number of time-based measurements per day.
The measuring results are saved in a database in the analysis and diagnostics software Condmaster Ruby residing in Södras Cell's network. The results, which can be integrated into other systems and IoT platforms via SPM's REST API, are handled by Södra Cell's newly formed group of data engineers who have overall analysis and monitoring responsibility for all production units' measurements – work that takes place in close collaboration with local technicians at the respective facility.
Södra Cell mainly produces market pulp for paper and textile production in its three modern pulp mills.
