Predictive Maintenance for Rotating Equipment

Challenges

An extruder melts plastic and pushes it through a mould to create shapes such as pipes or sheets. A significant number of unplanned extruder shutdowns are currently observed.
Each shutdown is caused by a combination of several factors.
Frequent shutdowns and maintenance costs mean lost production, lower efficiency and lost value.

Approach

An equipment health index finds abnormal behavior in real time and alerts the operator in advance of a potential breakdown.

Where a breakdown is developing, the system identifies the probable root causes and proposes the preventive action, drawing on maintenance guidelines and the history of past breakdowns.

Key features

Equipment Health Index — abnormal behavior detected in real time
Advance alerts before potential breakdowns
Root Cause Identification — probable causes listed for the operator
LLM Action Insight — preventive actions proposed from guidelines and history

Impact

50–100%

Reduction of shutdowns — fully avoided, or flagged before an inevitable stop

Root causes listed for the operator

As stated in the company deck

Preventive actions proposed automatically