Marine engine health monitoring

[brian.cunningham]

Marine engine health monitoring

I'm currently working for Altair Avionics www.altairavionics.com (http://www.altairavionics.com)
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We put engine monitors on aircraft, but we are limited to analyzing engines from Pratt&Whitney since they supply our analysis tools. So, we are weighing the options of either developing our own tools, or licensing tools from other vendors.

What's need is the ablilty to generate and engine model from past history, which we have, and the ability to predict failures before they happen. Right now we are doing this, but we want to ramp up the process.

Smart Signal www.smartsignal.com (http://www.smartsignal.com) looks great, but they want to charge us per engine!

I know that several people on the forum have either been in the Navy or are marine engineers. Have any of you used or heard of a product call DEXTER from MACSEA Ltd.
http://www.dexteragents.com/agents/

It's used to monitor the health of engines on large ships
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[ahp]

Do you do wear metels analysis in your lub oil?

[brian.cunningham]

That's part of it.

We also monitor things like rotor speed and combustion temperature, and by looking at this we can tell if blade has been damage, or a hole is burnt through the combustion section.

[Gary E]

Brian
How big or how small are you talking here?
Have you checked what Cat and Cummins are doing? or are those engines to small?

[brian.cunningham]

That's not too small. I'm not sure if they are doing any monitoring though.