Wastewater Treatment Machine Health Solutions
Wastewater Treatment Case Study Spotlight
proactive intervention created
$14,904
in equipment savings
Safeguarding Communities Through Efficient Wastewater Management
On December 13th, a significant spike in peak acceleration and velocity readings at Altoona Water Authority, a public wastewater facility in Altoona, PA, caught the attention of SMARTdiagnostics. Thanks to the rapid response from SENTRYsolutions, plant operators were prompted to inspect the dryer motor and potentially grease the inboard bearing.
Reduce Unplanned Downtime with Waterwater Treatment Case Studies
Boiler Feed Water Pumps
Most industrial pumps operate at less than half of their potential efficiency, usually due to poor operating conditions and practices that can be impossible to pinpoint with traditional approaches to maintenance.
- Pumps consume 25% of all industrial energy
- Pumps typically operate at 40% efficiency
- Inefficiency costs $500,000 on average over the pump’s lifespan
Cooling Towers
Cooling towers are hard to reach and hard to monitor, so many maintenance pros miss key indicators of imminent failure. Tower failure can have downstream impacts on almost all production processes.
- $1,000/hour downtime cost
- $50,000 in equipment costs per failure
- $100,000+ cost savings per avoided failure
Induced/Forced Draft Fans
Route-based maintenance doesn’t capture the full picture of ID/FD fan health. These fans are large, putting relatively small data anomalies lower on the priority list — but they are often a warning sign of imminent failure.
- Up to $20,000/hour downtime cost
- $250,000 in equipment costs per failure
- $300,000+ cost savings per avoided failure
Industry leading data acquisition in high definition while achieving a total cost of sustainment 16x less than the average competitor.
Wastewater Treatment Highlight
Municipal Utility District, Katy Texas X KCF Technologies
Municipal Utility Districts (MUD) are essential for community growth, quality infrastructure, and economic development. At the core of this framework are the assets— pumps, motors, blowers and others that run this critical infrastructure. KCF Technologies combines condition monitoring data with actionable insights and maintenance practices to paint a full picture of how to optimize the system. It’s not enough to simply know that an asset is failing. Your machine health solution can only provide long-term value if it helps you understand what causes asset degradation and how to avoid those conditions, helping you reach new heights of productivity and uptime.
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Why KCF
$4B
customer savings
75k
hours of prevented downtime
24/7
hours of monitoring
KCF Technologies Gives Wastewater Treatment Facilities a Competitive Edge
Gain access to continuous monitoring and a team of engineers with a wealth of wastewater treatment industry experience in asset health monitoring, root cause analysis, and problem-solving.
Our machine health optimization platform was designed for manufacturers with tough asset challenges that traditional monitoring can’t solve. We’ll help you prevent unplanned downtime and increase productivity, efficiency, and revenue.
