SKF extends its capability to support lubrication management

Barrie Rodgers, Product Line Manager, Mobile Solutions at SKF explains: "This is a significant step towards integrating condition monitoring and lubrication data". The extended scope of Enlight ProCollect now allows users to create, schedule and carry out lubrication routes more effectively. It is a portable condition-based monitoring system that helps companies adopt digitalisation in their maintenance approach. The new functionality, made possible by an update to the SKF ProCollect app, helps users collect vibration data and carry out re-lubrication simultaneously.

When creating lubrication routes, maintenance managers can define the correct lubricant, amount, location and interval in advance. They can also document specific assets and their lubrication demands, via a web-based cloud portal called SKF Enlight Centre. In this way, lubrication routes can be assigned to individual maintenance staff. Technicians are alerted when each route is due, and the mobile app guides them through the correct lubrication routine. Lubrication data is entered directly into the app and automatically uploaded to allow documentation to be instantly completed and subsequent analysis of factors such as route verification and task trends. This, states SKF, helps companies make better-informed decisions whilst giving maintenance managers greater peace of mind because they will know instantly that a lubrication route has been completed correctly and on-schedule: greater visibility of overall maintenance activities, route status, team performance and asset health is also recorded.

The latest version of the SKF ProCollect app, which extends its capability to lubrication management, is now available on the App Store. Visit www.skf.co.uk for further details.