Södra Cell invests in Swedish pulp mills

11/01/2023

Following a successful first phase, Swedish forestry group Södra is now investing in another 1000 wireless Airius LTE-M vibration sensors for its pulp mills in Mönsterås, Mörrum and Värö. It is moving on to acquire 1000 additional sensors to cover even more equipment. SPM Instrument’s Airius measures triaxial vibration, using acceleration enveloping to detect problems such as gear and bearing faults, imbalance and misalignment. The sensor is ideal for remote monitoring of standard production equipment such as fans, pumps and motors and supports several different vibration measurement tasks per sensor, with a user-defined number of time-based measurements per day.

The measuring results are saved in a database in the analysis and diagnostics software Condmaster Ruby, residing in Södras Cell’s network. The results, which can be integrated into other systems and Internet of Things (IoT) platforms via SPM’s REST API, are handled by Södra Cell’s newly formed group of data engineers who have overall analysis and monitoring responsibility for all production unit measurements; work that takes place in close collaboration with local technicians at the respective facility.
Södra Cell mainly produces market pulp for paper and textile production in its three modern pulp mills.

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