Overview
Always Connected – Real-Time Filter and Oil Updates
What if equipment owners and OEM’s could know what filtration system and oil condition status are 24/7? Filter Minder has been leading the filtration monitoring industry for over 45 years, and we’ve recently introduced our Filter Minder Connect predictive filtration monitoring solution. Designed to maximize uptime and minimize the overall cost of equipment ownership, Filter Minder Connect is a cloud-based filtration monitoring solution that provides actionable information to maintenance personnel in real-time.
Routine Maintenance at the Right Time
Service intervals can be more effectively planned and scheduled using data from our monitoring solution, saving time and money. Maintenance that’s performed too soon leads to higher filtration costs and inefficient filtration while changing the filter and/or oil too late can mean unscheduled downtime and possibly damage to the engine. The inefficiency and guesswork are removed with Filter Minder Connect monitoring solution. Service intervals can be more effectively planned and scheduled using data from our Filter Minder Connect monitoring solution, saving time and money. It also gives fleet managers the opportunity to free up capital that’s tied up in inventory costs.
Always-On Data Collection
Static mechanical indicators are useful for service technicians and machine operators but not for collecting and aggregating data into the back office. That’s a key advantage of Filter Minder Connect – the data collected can form historical data sets over time, providing insight into how applications perform in certain environments. Best of all, the raw data can be enriched, analyzed, and turned into actionable information to be applied to maintenance practices across equipment fleets.
Features
Monitor Multiple Filtration Systems
Filter Minder Connect is a flexible, scalable solution that can be applied to air filters, fuel filters, and hydraulic filters. For air filter applications, the dynamic Filter Minder Connect sensor is installed quickly and easily by threading it into the standard indicator port. For fuel and hydraulic filters, our heavy-duty sensors are installed upstream and downstream of the filter to monitor the pressure differential, which will tell you the remaining useful filter life.
Oil Condition Monitoring in Real-Time
We also offer a liquid sensor that, when embedded into the oil flow, can monitor key properties of oil conditions including temperature, viscosity, dielectric constant, and resistivity as well as other oil conditions. The information the sensor provides can also forewarn against catastrophic oil failures and non-oil-related issues.
Real Value for Equipment Fleets
Already in use in the mining, agricultural, construction, and transportation industries, the Filter Minder Connect monitoring solution has revolutionized the filtration monitoring market for OEMs and their clients. As a maintenance or optimization tool, it offers multiple benefits for OEMs, including ongoing customer satisfaction and encouragement of the use of genuine OEM branded replacement filters.
- Components are easy to install – on manufacturing lines or in the field
- Differentiates you from other equipment manufacturers
- Promotes the use of genuine OEM replacement filters
- Available to monitor a full range of air, fuel, lube, and hydraulic filter restriction – plus engine and hydraulic oil condition
Added Value to Every Vehicle
Offering this capability to your customer can help differentiate you from other equipment manufacturers and provide an important equipment maintenance/optimization tool to help drive ongoing customer satisfaction. It can also be an important tool to help promote the use of genuine OEM branded replacement filters.
Wireless Connectivity
The Filter Minder Connect system also includes wireless transmitters that connect to each of the liquid sensors, and the Easy Receiver that wirelessly receives data from filter and oil condition sensors across the equipment asset – and aggregates the data for connection into your telematics platform.
OEMs Benefit From Filter Minder Connect, Too
Incorporating Filter Minder sensors into equipment telematics systems provides OEMs with an extra capability to offer customers. It also allows you to gather more information about how engine populations are used and how they’re performing in the field.
Products
Filter Monitoring
Air Filter Monitoring
Filter Minder Connect air cleaner sensors are powerful tools in helping equipment owners/maintenance managers optimize the performance of their air intake systems. Filter Minder Connect air cleaner sensors can be threaded into standard air cleaner indicator ports, sending a signal to a receiver in the vehicle cab. This, in turn, can be integrated into whatever connected equipment technology monitoring system you prefer (your unique platform or industry-standard monitoring and reporting tools).
Fuel and Hydraulic Filter Monitoring
Having advance warning of when fuel and hydraulic filters are about to reach terminal restriction can help maintenance managers avoid unplanned downtime. The Filter Minder Connect pressure sensor measures contaminant loading on filters by monitoring pressure drop across the filter, using two sensors to determine differential pressure both upstream and downstream of the filter. The sensors can be threaded into a monitoring port on the filter assembly and connect via a wiring harness to a transmitter.
Oil Analysis
We knew the industry needed a better solution, so Donaldson engineers developed Filter Minder Connect sensors for both engine and hydraulic oil condition monitoring. After the easy installation of a sensor, Filter Minder Connect can measure the condition of oil in real-time, including density, viscosity, dielectric constant, resistivity, and other oil conditions – and send you immediate cloud-based results. This allows fleet managers to augment traditional oil analyses and make informed maintenance decisions quickly.
Engine Oil Condition Monitoring
Fleet managers analyze engine oil for a variety of reasons: to extend oil-drain intervals, to reduce maintenance downtime, and to lower material costs. Preventative engine-oil analysis can also forewarn against catastrophic oil failures and provide advanced warnings against non-oil-related engine problems such as internal coolant leaks, injector problems, or accelerated engine wear. However, these oil analyses can be time and labor-intensive. Factor in sampling cost and days or weeks waiting for results, and you can see why the process can be a hassle. Filter Minder Connect sensors are an easy solution for fleet managers.
Hydraulic Oil Condition Monitoring
Hydraulic oil analysis is a common preventative measure performed by many end-user fleet managers. Oil analysis can lower material costs, reduce maintenance downtime (oil and filter changes), and extend oil drain intervals. Fleet managers can also use hydraulic oil analysis for advanced warning of system problems (beyond those associated with oil) and potentially prevent catastrophic failure. However, traditional oil analyses can be time and labor-intensive, add costs, and take days to get the results back. Filter Minder Connect can take the hassle out of hydraulic oil condition monitoring.
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