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Hear the Difference: Acoustic Plant Monitoring (Room 317)

Intuitively, living beings use sounds in the environment to gain information. This seldom-applied, but very bionic, approach can be used for maintenance assistance and process monitoring in metals industries. By recording and analyzing the sounds produced by equipment, acoustic monitoring systems provide a new approach to condition-based maintenance and open up a wide field of applications for asset and process monitoring. Using several example installations, the method is described in detail. Achieved results are provided as well. An outlook about further applications concludes the paper.