Are you a maintenance operator in the energy industry facing these challenges?
What is smart bolting?
Atlas Copco have been helping develop smart factories for years, producing tools that can receive and send data – ensuring the job is being completed correctly, with data to prove it. Although they are prominent inside factories, in the field it is still very much manual – with reporting still completed through silos and no traceability or analytics. Smart Bolting is the evolution of smart tools for field use, so operators can improve their overall processes with recorded traceability.
Why is smart bolting important to you?
Implementing the process control and documentation capabilities currently used in production facilities into the operations and maintenance environment could greatly benefit OEMs and contractors in the energy industry. This would lead to higher quality work, cost savings, and improved operational efficiency.
In the past, this integration was not feasible. However, with the advent of mobile connectivity, cloud computing, and smart devices, it is now possible. These technologies enable the concept of a “smart factory” to be applied in field-based operational environments.
To achieve a truly connected and efficient system, it is essential that all bolting technologies (such as hydraulic torque, bolt tensioning, and continuous rotation) share a common user interface. This would facilitate operational process control, data analysis, and traceability.
Customer Feedback (anonymized)
There is a huge improvement on speed since we have switched to the Tensor Revo. We have to service multiple applications & being able to have the data from the tightening data emailed to the site office at end of day is very useful.
We needed a way of reporting on our servicing job on the turbines, so integrating the Smart tensioning system allowed us to achieve that. We were much more accurate and could show the job was being completed correctly.
We switched to the Tensor Revo for out base to mid connections for the wind turbines, and have not looked back. We now have data collections on all connections and 10% data reports for quality assurance with full proof data to present to site owners.
Integrating the bespoke shrink disc tensioner into our operations has really improved how we work. It has overall reduced 60% of the working time and redistributed work force into other areas of the business.
On the expandable shell application, we had huge backlog as it took a long time. Switching to the Tensor Revo HA allowed us to improve out efficiency by 60% and vastly improved the working environment.
We had intensive work to complete on a blade to hub application, where were using multiple tools. Since switching the Tensor Revo, we can simply just use that one type of tool. There’s consistency across the workforce, and its much lighter and faster than larger tools.