可靠地监测生物化学生产

Sustainable products such as bioplastics are becoming increasingly important. The leading supplier of sustainable solutions provides the basis for this. At its biochemical plant complex fermentation processes are carried out to produce derivative acid, which customers use in a wide variety of ways.* During the production of derivative acid (for example lactic acid), the machines are subjected to extreme stress. Business consequence means production throughput has to be optimized to avoid unplanned machine downtime. With this in mind, the plant has been utilizing a combination of offline and online monitoring solutions on their critical machinery for years. The expansion of the plant in recent years presented a new challenge for maintenance – loose meshing of the machine gears. It meant tremendous stress on the gears and resulted in accelerated wear and tear running into the risk of incorrect lubrication. Therefore, the maintenance management team turned to Schaeffler for a comprehensive solution.