Air: a vital element for industrial plants

Air: a vital element for industrial plants

More and more are industrial plants using compressed air to power production line tools and carry out industrial processes. A choice dictated by the countless advantages which the use of compressed air can boast, including, principally:

•  a greater security 
• a greater flexibility and ease of use, even in remote areas such as mines and construction sites
• a greater lightness of air-powered tools due to the materials from which they are made.

 Air is free, but not for everyone!

Despite all the advantages of compressed air, it costs up to 7 or 8 times that of electricity. If we compare what it takes to produce it with what is then generated, compressed air is the most expensive resource in a typical production plant. In addition, the United States Department of Energy observed that more than 50% of all compressed air systems have energy efficiency problems. Statistics speak of average losses around 25-30% with peaks up to 50% within the different compressed air systems. The only approach to ensure the efficiency of your system is to invest in the so-called predictive maintenance.

The benefits of predictive maintenance

Planning maintenance operations in advance allows companies to preventing and limiting costs that air leaks entail, avoiding drastic situations such as the need to replace their equipment.
Relying on predictive maintenance allows you to:

• improve productivity up to 15%
• predict malfunctions with an accuracy of up to 90%
• monitor the health of their installations

Pedroncelli S.r.l. is a reliable and efficient partner in the field of predictive maintenance. Thanks to state-of-the-art instrumentation, including our FLUKE II900 industrial acoustic camera and a trained and constantly updated team, we provide an excellent leak detection service in province of Sondrio, Lecco and throughout northern Italy.