How SpotSee ShockLog can monitor products in your supply chain
Key takeaways
- Heavy equipment is vulnerable to physical impacts during transport.
- Proper packaging cannot fully protect from mishandling and shocks.
- Monitoring impacts can prevent costly damage and safety hazards.
- Effective monitoring ensures equipment arrives safely and intact.
Handling heavy equipment during transport is fraught with risks, as these vital yet delicate products are vulnerable to damage from physical impacts. Turbulence, sudden stops, and sharp turns can all result in significant harm, leading to costly replacements, safety hazards, and reputational damage. Ensuring the integrity and safe arrival of heavy equipment like generators, turbines, and aerospace components is crucial. Monitoring tilts, rolls, and impacts during transit is essential to mitigate these risks and maintain operational excellence.
Careful with that box
A fragile sticker cannot protect your equipment. Even with proper packaging, physical shocks during transport can ruin or break industrial equipment. The mishandling of generators, turbines, aerospace, oil, and gas equipment can lead to big problems down the road.
In some cases, mishandling could result in an environmental hazard or jeopardize the safety of installation and operations crews. Since these unpredictable situations cannot often be prevented, you must monitor the product for tilts, rolls, impacts, and vibrations. Accurate monitoring will give you the peace of mind that a product has arrived safely or let you know when there is a problem.
Damaged goods and damaged reputation
Careless handling or lack of monitoring of products in your supply chain is bad for your business. It can lead to:
- Paying to replace damaged goods during transport
- Your customers are not receiving vital supplies
- Loss of reputation
Enter SpotSee ShockLog® 298
Knowing is half the battle. How do you stay on top of things to minimize risks to the overall safety and quality of the products? Well, the answer is SpotSee ShockLog. This highly durable impact recorder can be configured to monitor critical parameters, providing an unmistakable alert that an impact on a shipment or equipment may have compromised its integrity, performance, or safe operation.
The SpotSee ShockLog is a data logger and an impact recorder. ShockLog monitors and records products’ shock and vibration during transport. SpotSee ShockLog monitors and records data when there is:
- Tilting
- Rolling
- Impact
Brace for impact with Spotsee ShockLog
Spotsee ShockLog will monitor vibration levels and impact on heavy equipment and parts. With extension devices, you can also monitor for any tilting or rolling of the shipment. Threshold levels can be set so that the ShockLog ignores normal low-level vibration in transport.
The ShockLog 298 impact recorder can be used to:
- Alert recipients and operators to inspect goods and equipment for potential damage
- Determine baseline damage boundaries
- Detect mishandling during shipping, operation, and storage, enabling you to identify and assign accountability and take corrective action
- Make adjustments to product packaging, loading process, carriers, or mode of transport
- Help identify opportunities for improvement through journey profiling
How to make SpotSee ShockLog a part of your shipping process
Spotsee ShockLog is meant to help you monitor your sensitive shipments without added hassle. To make sure you get the most accurate alerts, here are some tips to keep in mind:
- Mount the ShockLog as low as possible but as close as you can to the most sensitive part of the product
- Make sure you use all 4 mounting bolts that are included
- Make sure you avoid metal-to-metal contact when mounting ShockLog
- Use the rubber bushings included in the mounting kit to reduce vibration
If you’re unable to mount the ShockLog, then use magnetic feet or strong, adhesive, double-sided tape.
Using SpotSee ShockLog data to ship safe
The included ShockLog software generates reports and graphs useful for monitoring your shipment. On the Report page, you will find the Data File Summary section, which gives you a start-to-finish picture of your shipment. The Summary of Events will list any alarms or abnormalities that were reported. You can customize the date range of the report using the report time period selector.
Several graphs will appear on the Report page, such as:
- Slot Graphs of the impacts
- Event Data Graphs with data from recorded events
- Event Summary Graphs showing the absolute value of the events in the file
- Detailed Event Curve displaying a data curve for a given event, starting with the most severe
Use SpotSee ShockLog to protect your shipments
Spotsee ShockLog is a reliable tool for monitoring and recording possible dangers to your shipment. The physical impact of jolts and tilts are risks when transporting large equipment. ShockLog monitors and records these risks and immediately alerts you when problems occur. So why would you leave your supply chain vulnerable to such risks? Contact Spotsee today to see how ShockLog can best help safeguard your shipments.
