Are you a tool operator facing these challenges?
What is smart bolting?
Atlas Copco has been instrumental in the development of smart factories for years, creating tools capable of both receiving and transmitting data to ensure tasks are completed accurately, with data to verify the results. While these tools are widely used in factories, field operations remain largely manual, with reporting done in silos and lacking traceability or analytics.
Smart Bolting represents the next step in smart tool evolution for field use, enabling operators to enhance their 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 operators out in the field, and make work much easier.
With full process control capabilities, operators will not have to concern themselves with following each stage of the process as they will be guided from start to finish. This will reduce the process time as data and the process is all recorded at the time – so it will cut out time for manual reporting.
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.