The industrial Internet of Things
will generate a lot of data
You can get an idea of the challenges that come along with the concept of IoT on the factory floor from this little demonstration of a loaded ballscrew. The ballscrew moves a 110-lb weight continuously and serves as a test bed for generating baseline data. Sensors gauge bearing heat, torque output from a linear motor, and dynamic bearing loads. The resulting information gets sent to the cloud. Here’s the sobering statistic: This simple setup generates a whole terabyte of data daily. Researchers will use it to verify models for bearings and leadscrews that will eventually help predict when bearings and leadscrews are likely to fail.
A similar test at Tech Solve generates raw data in equal amounts for a CNC-type spindle. It wasn’t operational when we were there, having seized up after 57 days of continuous running.
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