InsightCM™ for Condition Monitoring

InsightCM is online asset-monitoring software for subject matter experts and maintenance professionals who need:

• Full access to waveform data
• Multiple sensor technology inputs
• Connectivity to existing enterprise software packages
• A variety of configuration options for alarms and data management

 

InsightCM connects to a family of monitoring devices to monitor asset health sensor data from any critical equipment in your plant.

 

Supported Sensor Inputs

You can connect Continuous Monitoring Systems to virtually any sensor technology and use them with rotational, electrical, static, and process asset types. The devices support the following sensor types out of the box:

 

• Accelerometer with or without Integrated Electronic Piezoelectric (IEPE) (vibration)
• Tachometer (speed)
• Keyphasor (speed)
• Proximity probe (displacement)
• Velometer (velocity)
• Temperature (resistance temperature detector or thermocouple)
• Voltage (±30 V)
• Current (4–20 mA)
• Digital input
• Read from Modbus slave devices via TCP/remote terminal unit
• Infrared camera (thermography)
• High-voltage potential transformers for MCSA—120/240 V AC secondary
• High-current current transformers for MCSA—low-voltage secondary
• Power (calculated from voltage x current)
• RF/radio antenna for EMSA
• Data points from OPC UA tags
• Data points from the OSIsoft PI System
• Data points from AVEVA eDNA Enterprise Data Management

Improve Productivity with Remote Diagnostics

InsightCM helps analysts and plant personnel shift focus away from manual data collection, freeing up time for more value-add activities such as data analysis, maintenance planning, and plant operations. Included features let you:

• Log in to the InsightCM server from any web browser with network access and perform real time analysis
• Cover more assets across your fleet with your existing team
• Get to analysis faster with data screening, alarming, and multi-sensor analysis tools

 

Minimize Change by Connecting to Existing Enterprise Software and IP

InsightCM is the most open condition-monitoring application software on the market giving you the freedom to use the tools you need to meet your goals. Connect InsightCM data with:

• The OSIsoft PI System™
• Black & Veatch Asset360®
• GP Strategies EtaPRO
• Avantis® PRiSM
• Microsoft Azure IoT Hub
• IBM Maximo®
• Microsoft Excel
• AVEVA eDNA
• PTC ThingWorx

 

Manage Any Sensor with One Software Tool

InsightCM supports a variety of sensor technologies to help catch multiple failure modes and crosscheck diagnoses for greater confidence. Supported measurement technologies include:

• Vibration (accelerometers, proximity probes, temperature, 4-20 mA and ±30 V static sensors)
• Motor-current signature analysis (MCSA) (potential transformers, current transformers)
• Thermography (infrared cameras)
• Generator Field Monitoring (includes shaft voltage and current as well as Rotor Flux Monitoring in one system)
• Available for hydroelectric, nuclear, and compound generators
• EMI Monitoring ( Monitoring Generators, motors, circuit breakers, and transformers for electrical defects)
• Partial Discharge Monitoring: The Partial Discharge (PD) measurement consists on a 2D histogram of PD Pulses known as PD Pattern or PRPD (Phase Resolved Partial Discharge) Pattern. All trending parameters are available in Insight CM
• Brush Condition Monitoring; Carbon Brush Length, Temperature and Vibration can be imported to Insight CM for trend analysis

 

Focus on Relevant Data

InsightCM systems can continuously (24x7) acquire and screen data from connected analog sensors. This architecture helps detect alarm limit excursions and operating-state changes in near real time, helping analysts focus on data with value, rather than parsing through numerous data sets collected during monthly routes.

 

Meet Your Security Needs

Only authenticated hardware and verified users have access to InsightCM. Secure remote password protocol provides authentication between asset monitoring systems and InsightCM. IT system administrators can specify a disconnection interval to force the asset-monitoring nodes to disconnect from the server and reauthenticate themselves. Access to InsightCM is role-based and gives IT system administrators the ability to restrict access to certain functionality to qualified users. These roles and user authentication can be linked to an existing corporate Lightweight Directory Access Protocol/Active Directory group for centralized role management. User activity between the client browser and InsightCM can be further secured using Secure Sockets Layer encryption.

 

Prepare for the Future with an Open, Customizable System

The Software Development Kit (SDK) for InsightCM helps customize the solution and prepare your business for almost any future needs, including new sensor technologies, communication protocols, and analysis methods. Add your custom analysis IP, connect to third-party hardware, or save to any file format using the SDK. Cutsforth offers a worldwide partner network that can customize InsightCM installations to fit specific needs and adapt them to future expansion.

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