How preventive maintenance prevents costly failures in industry: 5 reasons
Detecting wear early prevents costly failures. Drone inspections make preventive maintenance of industrial plants easier because scaffolding, cranes and man entry are not needed. In this article we show 5 reasons why predictive maintenance with drones reduces costs and increases safety – and how drone inspections extend the service life of your facilities.
Spot wear early, make failures plannable
Unplanned plant failures stop production, cause high costs and often require elaborate emergency measures. Traditional inspections mean erecting scaffolding, using cranes or risky entries into confined spaces – time-consuming and expensive. Drones for internal inspection such as the Flyability ELIOS 3 offer a remedy: they fly into vessels, boilers and silos without anyone having to go inside. This allows you to detect wear early and avoid expensive production outages. Our drone keeps shutdowns short; some plants can also be inspected without interrupting operations.
Christian Engelke
1. Hours instead of days at hard-to-reach points
The Flyability ELIOS 3 reaches even remote places inside installations without the need for cranes, scaffolding or man entry. This shortens preparation, and the inspection takes hours instead of days. The shutdown is shorter, and several installations can be inspected during a single shutdown.
2. Images, videos and LiDAR in the same flights
The drone captures high-resolution images, videos and LiDAR scans in the same flights. This gives you extensive data on the basis of which expert assessors assess the condition of your plant. Additional means of access are not needed.
3. No additional equipment such as cranes or aerial work platforms required
Thanks to the drone's flexibility and manoeuvrability, expensive and bulky equipment such as cranes or aerial work platforms is no longer needed. The ELIOS 3 also reaches elevated structures such as cranes, vessels or pipelines and inspects them without elaborate aids.
4. Nobody has to enter the vessel, boiler or silo
The drone can fly into and inspect hazardous or hard-to-reach areas such as tanks, confined spaces or heavily contaminated industrial plants. Your employees do not have to enter these areas.
5. Shorter shutdowns and lower costs
With the Flyability ELIOS 3, inspections take hours instead of days and cost less: your inspection costs can fall by up to 80% because scaffolding, cranes and rope access technicians are not needed. Because preparation is short and the data is captured in just a few flights, the shutdown is shorter. This makes preventive maintenance something you can plan, instead of only reacting to damage. Typical locations are shown on our page on the inspection of tanks and silos.
Plan maintenance instead of repairing failures
Drone inspections make preventive maintenance in industry easier. With the Flyability ELIOS 3 we inspect without scaffolding or cranes – even in hard-to-reach areas. You receive an inspection report with photos, videos, a 3D point cloud and located anomalies as the basis for predictive maintenance. The result: lower maintenance costs, greater safety for your employees and a longer service life for your plant. Write to us if you want to avoid expensive production outages.