Being an equipment technician is a rewarding career for many of those who choose it. The process of learning your trade and developing your expertise when it comes to handling the equipment you maintain, from manufacturing to HVAC, is one that inspires a lot of confidence and satisfaction. However, being a technician can also be challenging, strenuous, and frustrating as you struggle to keep up with the condition of your equipment and the requirements of a physically demanding job. These downsides can often decrease the amount of successes you’re able to enjoy, as well as keeping technicians from fully enjoying their work. However, Discovery Sound Technology can provide a solution for many of these challenges, empowering HVACR technicians and their work on various types, shapes an sizes of HVACR equipment to improve their results and the demands of their workday!

Early Fault Location

With many of the testing methods that are commonly used for HVACR maintenance, PMs becomes more of a catch-up game where you’re constantly chasing problems as they arise and scrambling to keep up. With the ultrasound technology of DST, technicians are able to not only find and identify existing faults that are already causing problems but locate faults and issues that will become problems in the future. This facilitates a shift from reactive maintenance, where problems are addressed as they arise, to prescriptive and predictive maintenance, where problems can be stopped before they even start! With ultrasonic testing providing such detailed insight, DST technicians will maintain better and drive more consistent performance results from their equipment by finding issues early and fixing them at the right moment.

Safe and Convenient Testing

There are many kinds of testing methods available to equipment technicians today, but sadly, many of them have serious drawbacks to their use. Some require exposure to things like x-rays that can be harmful, while others are physically challenging for technicians to use and require them to get in close contact with dangerous machine components or enter hazardous situations, like climbing up on top of large pieces of equipment. Even the methods that are relatively safe are often time consuming to use, or just simply lack accuracy. DST’s Ultrasonic testing has very few of these drawbacks– it’s not only extremely precise and accurate in its results, but it’s quick and convenient to use. Some organizations are already seeing 50% PM Labor / Time Savings. DST’s Ultrasound readings can be taken at a short distance in just a few minutes, giving technicians the safety, flexibility and fact-based “comparative” diagnostic results they lack with other methods of testing. They don’t have to wait for results…. It’s all done in real time.

Easy Analysis

Going through rigorous training to understand complex machinery and be able to interpret complicated results is a tedious and laborious process for any technician looking to get acclimated to a new testing method, but with DST, there’s no such stress. DST’s Ultrasonic technology uses the power of sound waves to capture data about the way a machine is functioning, and the patented advanced algorithms and software of DST process that data almost instantaneously, providing accurate, easy-to-understand results that a technician can analyze and turn into a maintenance plan. There’s no confusion with Discovery Sound Technology– with a few quick and convenient training sessions, any technician can become an expert!

Discovery Sound Technology and ultrasonic testing are the tools that maintenance technicians need to empower themselves in their work and find satisfaction and success in the field! If you’re interested in learning more, make sure you continue reading here about the many benefits of DST.