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EBARA Maintenance Cloud

Data platform for "equipment inspection" that detects failures of equipment in buildings using IoT "EBARA Maintenance Cloud" "Wireless sensor QiDe"

Maintenance to ensure stable operation of the pump

In Japan, there are countless large-scale buildings such as factories, energy facilities, water supply facilities, and commercial facilities, and pumps, blowers, cooling towers, refrigerators, etc. are connected by piping and work in a systematized manner. The number of general-purpose mass-produced pumps, which are our main products, exceeds 10 million units nationwide. Not only do they all need to be installed and operated correctly, but they also need to be inspected several times a year and maintained by skilled maintenance personnel. By spending a lot of money and human intervention on it, a safe daily life is supported.

24-hour remote monitoring of vibration and temperature

Even though it is a sudden failure of equipment, the facility cannot be stopped. A mechanism is being set in motion to solve the enormous maintenance costs associated with technology for this purpose. One of them is the EBARA Maintenance Cloud. It is a data platform that remotely monitors and analyzes "vibration" and "temperature" 24 hours a day by installing a wireless sensor "QiDe" as small as a bottle cap on a device in the facility.

The data collected from QiDe can be analyzed on the dashboard, and if signs of abnormality are confirmed, the person in charge of the company using QiDe and our after-sales support are immediately notified. By accumulating data, we aim to judge the timing of maintenance with greater accuracy and predict failures in the future. Rather than repeating periodic inspections just in case, if we can quickly detect the possibility of failure and establish a system for maintenance according to demand, it will lead to labor saving, cost savings, and energy savings.

However, its development was not easy. As a manufacturing company, our engineers had little knowledge of IoT such as the cloud, and there were not necessarily many people who were familiar with it. In order to replace the know-how of professionals who inspect equipment in detail and rush to maintain it with digital, we held discussions with partner companies and were able to start commercialization in November 2022.

Linking multiple devices to quickly detect abnormalities

This new challenge is to centralize monitoring more extensively by linking multiple EBARA devices and devices, leading to the creation of new user value.
For example, in the field of refrigeration equipment, the independent monitoring system "RISSA" has been remotely monitored and operated through the control panel since before QiDe was developed, but by linking this RISSA to the EBARA maintenance cloud, it is now possible to view the status data of equipment that could not be confirmed by users in the past. As a result, it is possible to quickly detect abnormalities and problems, prevent sudden failures, and lead to planned maintenance, contributing to labor saving for users.

Link to be added: *RISSA_remote maintenance

Aiming for the Realization of "Smart Buildings"

As of the end of 2023, the EBARA Maintenance Cloud, which can be called the DX (Digital Transformation) of facility inspections and the IoT initiative that we were able to build because we have been in charge of the development and maintenance of equipment for many years, is in the stage of installing QiDe on 690 units nationwide. The number of devices that can be installed is estimated to be 10 million units based on pumps alone. By using it not only for more EBARA equipment and for our equipment but also for equipment from other manufacturers, we aim to realize a "smart building" in which inspections in facilities, which until now have been the norm to be performed manually, will be converted to IoT.

The challenge of QiDe becoming the unsung hero of the new era that watches over our lives has just begun.