Harley-Davidson Expands Use of SWANTECH's SWANview Systems; SWANview Delivers Earliest Detection of Wear for Endurance Testing.Business Editors/Technology Writers FORT LAUDERDALE Fort Lauderdale (lô`dərdāl), residential, commercial, and resort city (1990 pop. 149,377), seat of Broward co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast; settled around a fort built (c.1837) in the Seminole War, inc. 1911. , Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 20, 2002 Harley-Davidson(R) Motor Company is expanding the use of SWANview(TM) machine condition monitoring Condition monitoring is the process of monitoring a parameter of condition in machinery, such that a significant change is indicative of a developing failure. It is a major component of predictive maintenance. systems to a second system. The decision is based on the success of its first SWANview system, installed at Harley-Davidson's state-of-the-art Product Development Center (PDC (1) (Primary Domain Controller) A Windows NT/2000 service that manages security for its local domain. Every domain has one PDC, which contains a database of usernames, passwords and permissions. ) in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin Wauwatosa is a city in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States. As of the 2006 census estimate, the city population was 44,798. Wauwatosa is located immediately west of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and is a part of the Milwaukee metropolitan area. . Harley-Davidson Test Engineering confirmed that SWANview detects component wear during endurance testing early enough to stop testing before the occurrence of secondary damage. Endurance testing is part of a comprehensive testing program that is performed on Harley-Davidson products to continuously improve quality and reliability. No other technology has been able to detect wear in time to avoid the progression of component damage. Prior to the use of SWAN, test engineers ran components at an overload condition to failure, and then tried to sort through the internal damage to determine which part failed first. SWANview's early detection ability allows test engineers to easily identify a primary failure, shortening both initial testing and post-test failure analysis times. SWANview is based upon SWANTECH's patented Stress Wave Analysis (SWAN(TM)) technology, which is deployed in engineering test cell and industrial operating environments in condition monitoring and predictive maintenance Predictive maintenance (PdM) techniques help determine the condition of in-service equipment in order to predict when maintenance should be performed. This approach offers cost savings over routine or time-based preventive maintenance because tasks are performed only when applications. The simplicity of its user interface is a primary reason that Harley-Davidson first selected SWANview. The fact that the system proved successful in the first month of testing also distinguished SWAN from other technologies, which require extensive time for training and installation. "Harley-Davidson is a remarkable company, celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. The company has reached this milestone through outstanding leadership and discipline," stated Joe Carpenter, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of SWANTECH. He added, "Harley-Davidson's product development and testing processes are rigorous. They ensure that current and future products continue to inspire the legendary loyalty and pride of ownership that characterize Harley-Davidson customers. We are proud to have proven the value of SWAN technology for Harley-Davidson's product development and testing requirements." SWANTECH is dedicated to the innovation, design and development of diagnostic tools that detect and measure even slight shock and friction events that occur between contact surfaces in operating machinery. SWANTECH delivers the power of precise machine condition information with patented Stress Wave Analysis (SWAN(TM)) technology. SWAN detects Stress Wave Energy and enables the separation of these high-frequency stress waves from the much lower frequency range of operating machinery vibration and audible noise. This process detects flaws and problems well before other technologies including vibration and lubrication lubrication, introduction of a substance between the contact surfaces of moving parts to reduce friction and to dissipate heat. A lubricant may be oil, grease, graphite, or any substance—gas, liquid, semisolid, or solid—that permits free action of analysis and provides prognostic condition monitoring solutions that enable users to intervene before secondary machine damage or catastrophic failure A catastrophic failure is a sudden and total failure of some system from which recovery is impossible. The affected system not only experiences destruction beyond any reasonable possibility of repair, but also frequently causes injury, death, or significant damage to other, often occurs. SWANTECH solutions contribute to a lower total cost of operation and a greater return on assets Return on assets (ROA) Indicator of profitability. Determined by dividing net income for the past 12 months by total average assets. Result is shown as a percentage. ROA can be decomposed into return on sales (net income/sales) multiplied by asset utilization (sales/assets). managed. |
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