National Control Devices has found ourselves very fortunate to have partnered with Ubidots! Ubidots is a high level cloud platform that provides excellent customer service, and can be used with any sensor in NCD’s Enterprise Line of Sensor devices. Check out our full Enterprise Sensor product line. 

NCD’s sensors have many features that help with condition monitoring and predictive maintenance that factor into your project’s, asset’s and facility’s well being. NCD’s Predictive Maintenance Sensor is proven to provide accurate data by means of temperature, vibration, acceleration, velocity, and current. 

How can this help maintain machine health, and ultimately save time, resources, and repair costs? 

Temperature – Temperature monitoring is an imperative part of maintaining machine health. Motors for example, need to maintain a cool enough temperature to operate safely. If the temperature on a motor increases to an unsafe level, this could cause harm to the motor, and also cause a reduction in current efficiency. While monitoring temperature for machine health, the root cause analysis can be determined by using IoT Predictive Maintenance Sensors, and Ubidots IoT Applications Cloud Platform.
Vibration – Monitoring vibration to maintain machine health is also a crucial aspect of machine health. If a large motor or machine has too high a level of vibration (velocity and displacement) it could cause harm to the machine. By monitoring the level of vibration a machine is operating at, the user can ensure a proper measurement at a safe distance from the factory floor.
Current– A sizable resource from a facility’s assets, is current. When there is an immense amount of current being produced, the likelihood of malfunction increases. Monitoring the amount of current that is being produced from one’s machine will allow proper root cause analysis to be determined.