Faraday Predictive provide systems that take a new approach to condition monitoring, effectively combining vibration monitoring with electrical monitoring and energy monitoring to give a very powerful range of capabilities all in the same unit. 

Because their technology uses the electric motor driving the machine as a sensor, the only measurements required are taken in the electrical switchgear, which means that inaccessible equipment can be monitored just as easily as anything else.  It also means the system can give you information on energy consumption, and how much this machine costs in electricity to run over the year, together with an indication of how much extra energy is being used because of developing problems within the machine – see image.

The system thus monitors not only mechanical condition and electrical condition, but also operating condition – eg is this equipment being regularly overloaded, or stopped and started too often.  It has also been used to show where the operating process can be shortened, increasing output and reducing energy consumption.

Whilst the most common applications are for regular pumps, fans, compressors and conveyors, the Faraday Predictive technology is also being successfully used to monitor complex and slow-moving equipment including cranes and mechanical handling equipment as well as some interesting oddballs.

One such example is a recent request to monitor the main propulsion system of an ice-breaking ship, where the operator wants to know the effect of ice on the propeller blades and the effect of the loads on the entire drive and transmission system.  Fitting instrumentation to see what is going on under the ship’s hull would be a major challenge, but by using the motor as a sensor, the Faraday Predictive system is able to detect the variations in shaft torque created by the different operating conditions without any need for sensors external to the ship.  This not only provides information about the equipment condition, it also gives the ship’s crew a better idea of the severity of the ice-breaking operation.

So whether you want to monitor run of the mill machines or a complete oddball, give the team at Faraday Predictive a shout on 0333 772 0748 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.