SKF MetroCon increases reliability and cuts downtime in heavy duty elevators and escalators

Furthermore, the SKF MetroCon service can help to extend equipment service life and improve reliability through optimising auxiliary equipment, predicting and preventing failures and even by identifying the most cost-effective times to perform replacement or refurbishment tasks. Ultimately, the condition-based maintenance programme will enable operators to make considerable improvements to their bottom line.

The SKF MetroCon service has been designed to help engineers move from a reactive, costly and resource inefficient maintenance regime to a strategic approach based on asset knowledge, optimised service interventions, cost efficiency, increased security and reliability. Essentially, the cost effective programme combines three fundamental steps to achieve a complete maintenance strategy.

Initially, a client needs assessment (CNA) is performed to establish an improvement roadmap, along with recommendations on data collection type, frequency and methods. SKF will then supply and install the most appropriate condition monitoring technology for the particular application, with data collection capabilities. Following this, onsite or remote machine data analysis will be carried out to identify root cause failure data, to provide recommendations for ongoing reliability improvements and guidance on optimising the monitoring routines based on asset condition and business targets.

The SKF MetroCon programme is supported by SKF’s extensive range of condition monitoring technologies and broad knowledge and experience in the field of over 100 years. Most importantly, every SKF MetroCon service package is tailored to meet the specific demands of each customer to enable maximum benefits to be realised.