Use Guidewheel to improve machine health and reduce breakdowns.

Guidewheel’s sensors track machine health in real-time, empowering your team with great tools to support maintenance, swiftly address problems, and even prevent breakdowns to avoid downtime.

 

USE GUIDEWHEEL TO AUTOMATICALLY ALERT YOUR TEAM TO PROBLEMS

Teams configure Guidewheel to proactively alert the right person to abnormal activity in a machine or component, both reducing catastrophic breakdowns and improving MTTR. For example:

  • Machine health: Guidewheel can be set up to alert the maintenance team when the pattern of a machine’s activity changes in ways that might indicate a problem. 

    • Alerts can be set in case of bearing failure in main drives across all production equipment—alerts which won’t send often, but can prevent major catastrophes when they do! 

    • These maintenance alerts can be set up for any production equipment or components (drives, heaters, etc.) as well as for auxiliary equipment or utilities such as chillers or compressors. 

  • Quality problems: Guidewheel alerts can also help catch quality problems. 

    • Guidewheel can help the team immediately detect and take action when a machine is being run without proper heating or cleaning time, or when critical components are down and may be causing quality problems.

  • Process problems: Guidewheel can be used to systematize across the team and ensure proper process is followed, such as preventive maintenance, proper setup, heating, or cleaning.

 

TRACK ACTUAL RUN-HOURS AND CYCLES USING GUIDEWHEEL

Guidewheel automatically tracks actual run-hours and cycles by machine. It provides a great tool for the maintenance team to more effectively target preventive maintenance and focus limited maintenance time and resources where they can make the biggest difference.

 

COMPLIANCE AND REGULATION

Some manufacturers also use Guidewheel to document when key equipment or utilities have been running or off historically, providing verification for agencies or regulators. 

 

Wondering if Guidewheel will work for your team?

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