Glossary of industrial measurement
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Sycon’s measurement unit. Magnet-mounted or bonded to a machine and powered from a socket or a USB-C port, it measures vibration, temperature, humidity and air quality, then sends its readings over the LTE-M cellular network using its own SIM card.
Sycon’s remote module, a wired and Bluetooth Low Energy gateway: it connects off-the-shelf sensors with standard 0-10 V and 4-20 mA outputs, or specific sensors, to the nearby Sybox. With split-core current clamps, it reads the current a machine draws, from 0 to 500 amperes, one reading every two seconds. It runs on a battery and is IP67 rated.
A cellular network for connected devices, run by mobile operators. Its bandwidth, higher than that of networks designed to carry a few bytes at a time, makes remote updates of a unit faster.
A short-range, low-power radio link. A Syway module uses it to send its readings to the Sybox that relays them.
A European regulation on the cybersecurity of products with digital elements. Among other things it requires that a connected device be able to receive security fixes throughout its service life.
Reading a machine’s vibrations to recognise mechanical drift (wear, misalignment, imbalance) before it becomes a failure. The Sybox records three indicators from it: maximum, mean and variance.
A split-core sensor that closes around a conductor to measure the current flowing through it, without breaking the circuit or working on the electrical installation.
Upgrading an existing installation with digital functions, without replacing the machine or altering its control system.
Continuous monitoring of a machine’s condition through sensors, so that work is triggered by a sign of drift rather than by a fixed schedule or a breakdown.
A measure of a machine’s overall effectiveness, combining its availability, its rate and the quality of what it produces. Pushing it to the maximum wears the equipment out; optimising it means balancing it against reliability.
Computerised maintenance management system: the software holding the work orders, procedures and maintenance history of a fleet of equipment.
A device that moves data from one network to another, for instance from the shop floor to a remote platform.
An industrial computer that drives a machine or a line.
A documented entry point through which one piece of software queries another. It is how a maintenance or ERP system fetches measurements and alerts instead of copying them by hand.
A deliberately limited deployment, run to check that a solution holds up on a real case before extending it.
A deployment mode in which the platform is installed and run on the company’s own infrastructure rather than at a hosting provider.