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Timken Product Wins Innovation Award from Brammer
09/12/2008 - European distributor Brammer awards Timken the Innovation of the Year Award for its StatusCheck wireless condition monitoring system.
The Timken Co.’s StatusCheck™ wireless condition monitoring system has been awarded the Innovation of the Year Award from Brammer plc, a European distributor.
Brammer cited StatusCheck’s wireless features and the flexibility it provides to end users as reasons for presenting the innovation award to Timken. Brammer presented the award to Timken during the company's annual awards dinner.
StatusCheck is a wireless device that predicts potential malfunction in plant equipment. Users can mount StatusCheck units to equipment and monitor variables such as vibration and temperature as part of an overall predictive maintenance program.
Timken launched an enhanced version of StatusCheck in Europe in 2007. Certified as intrinsically safe for use in hazardous areas, StatusCheck units now carry their own batteries and accompanying circuitry that is incapable of creating a spark that could ignite flammable gas.
Timken launched an enhanced version of StatusCheck in Europe in 2007. Certified as intrinsically safe for use in hazardous areas, StatusCheck units now carry their own batteries and accompanying circuitry that is incapable of creating a spark that could ignite flammable gas.
Timken continues to develop predictive maintenance programs and monitoring devices to help customers avoid costly, unexpected equipment downtime.
Brammer, headquartered in the United Kingdom, provides a comprehensive range of products and services that support the maintenance, repair and on-going operations of production machinery. Brammer serves customers throughout Europe.
Timken provides innovative friction management and power transmission products and services. Its approximately 25,000 employees generated sales of $5.2 billion in 2007 from its operations in 27 countries.
