About Us
We develop advanced real time oil analysis and analytic technologies and products with unique capabilities that enable equipment operators to significantly reduce operating costs, improve efficiencies and reduce carbon foot-print.
Benefits of Tan Delta OCM
Any equipment operator/owner can realise significant, immediate and long term, cost reductions by integrating Tan Delta oil condition monitoring (OCM) into their equipment maintenance strategy. Our real time oil analysis and analytic sensors enable significant operating cost reductions through optimised maintenance scheduling and reduced breakdowns.
Dynamic Maintenance Optimisation (DMO™)
Every item of equipment has its own ‘personality’ which derives from multiple factors such as load factors, nuances in fuel and oil quality, environment, application etc.
The result is that time based maintenance schedules are always very conservative and based on a worst case scenario. The result is that equipment is usually maintained before really needed and thus far more frequently than needed.
Knowing the actual condition of each piece of equipment along with its unique maintenance personality means that you can determine exactly when equipment needs to be maintained. Tan Delta does exactly this. We tell you the maintenance status of your equipment and when it will need maintenance – crucially without risk because of our unique AFD™ continuous overwatch. Typically this results in a significant increase in the time between maintenance and thus a reduction in maintenance and associated costs.
Advanced Fault Detection (AFD™)
Pre-emptive maintenance before damage is always preferable to a costly unexpected breakdown and or catastrophic failure. Tan Delta detects the earliest signs of an issue and provides an alert before the issue has caused material damage.
This allows you to take appropriate action such as an immediate shut down if the potential issue is severe, or plan maintenance earlier than scheduled. The result is a reduction in breakdowns and associated costs such as parts and lost productivity
Extended Equipment Life
Better maintained equipment has a significantly longer productive life and this makes a significant difference to the overall profitability that any piece of equipment returns on your investment.
Reduced Carbon Footprint
Optimising maintenance, reducing unnecessary breakdowns all result in significant reductions in the use of oil and parts. On oil use alone a Tan Delta customer will expect to see minimum 30% reduction in oil consumption. This is great for the environment and as this can be verified can make a significant and direct contribution towards your corporate environment goals.
Improved Efficiency
Deeper analysis of Tan Delta data can help you refine the setup and configuration of your equipment to achieve greater output with less power / fuel consumption. This is normally part of a wider initiative, however the quality and accuracy of Tan Delta real time oil condition data can have help in this goal.
CAPABILITIES
We operate on a global scale with customers ranging from the largest engine manufacturers to small single equipment operators, from North America and Australia to Chile, India, Russia and Finland.
Over many years Tan Delta has developed deep experience and know-how in relation to the monitoring of all types of equipment using real time oil condition monitoring.
We develop all our core technologies and products inhouse, with manufacturing undertaken by our carefully selected manufacturing partners with whom our dedicated production QA department works. Customers enjoy a high level of support which covers everything from systems engineering to advising on mass scale rollout logistics. Our customers are therefore able to completely rely on both Tan Delta and our products.
Technology
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Our solutions and the multiple benefits that they deliver are based upon the fundamental principle and fact that accurate and reliable information on the maintenance status and condition of equipment is embedded within the condition and characteristics of its oil. Therefore, if the true condition of oil can be reliably and accurately understood and interpreted, an equipment operator can understand, track and even predict the operating and maintenance status of equipment and make informed decisions.
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Tan Delta sensor products are built around our proprietary FSH™ core technology which enables highly accurate and precise real time oil condition and equipment status analysis. It is the exceptional capabilities of this core technology that ultimately is our differentiator.
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FSH™ is the name we give to our proprietary core technology. It is an anacronym for Full Spectrum Holistic. We named it FSH™ because it summaries the unique capabilities of the technology. It will detect any wear or contamination (provides a full spectrum of analysis) and because of that provides a total all-encompassing monitoring solution that misses nothing (provides a holistic monitoring solution).
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FSH™ technology works by analysing the electro-chemical properties of oil in real time with absolute accuracy. These properties change as a direct result of factors such as general degradation through use, equipment wear or external and internal contamination. External contamination such as fuel, acid or water, or internal factors such as the early stages of mechanical failure which are typically characterised by presence of microscopic metallic elements appearing in the oil, or even earlier appearing as chemical changes to the oil. Therefore, being able to detect and analyse these changes provides a reliable and very accurate insight into the actual health and status of equipment.
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FSH™ detects and analyses these electro-chemical changes to an accuracy of 0.01% and it is this exceptional accuracy and sensitivity that enables the different and specific patterns and characteristics of those changes to be precisely identified and their cause identified. This information is delivered continuously in real time, in any oil type in live operation on any application.
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The accuracy of the FSH™ technology means we that all the small changes that characterise different failure modes such as contamination and or general wear, and the cause of those is detected and understood by Tan Delta. These are not picked up by other technologies and methods, leaving equipment exposed to unnecessary damage
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This graph is taken from an OQSx-G2 sensor fitted to a gas engine and shows normal wear of oil as expected. The operator normally undertook maintenance on a time basis, every 300hours. However at that point, the sensor shows that maintenance is not needed and in fact a further 150hrs of safe operation is possible. Maintenance is then carried out just before 675TDN which is the optimal maintenance point for this engine (red line). The sensor shows that the maintenance was carried out by reverting to 900TDN and then continues to track the condition again. The yellow limit value is used to trigger a maintenance planning alert to the operator. The result is that this engine is now maintained twice every 900hours of operation instead of a three times – a 33% reduction in maintenance costs.
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This graph is taken from an OQSx-G2 sensor fitted to a diesel engine and shows normal wear of oil as expected. However, the sensor detects an anomaly which is shown by a sudden change in the rate of change. The magnitude of the rate of change, and its characteristic means that this engine is determined to require immediate maintenance to avoid a breakdown and or major internal damage. In this specific case, the cause was identified as a failing bearing which was replaced avoiding a potential catastrophic failure.
