Without the benefits of diagnostic tools and technologies, planning maintenance and upkeep on your clients’ equipment can often leave you playing catch-up as you repair malfunctions and damage that you might’ve been able to prevent if you had seen it coming. With ultrasonic testing that uses ultrasound as a non-destructive method of examining your equipment, you can do preventive maintenance in a completely different way!

At DST, we use the high frequency ultrasound to inspect your machinery and equipment and diagnose your mechanical problems, providing an incredibly valuable tool previously not available outside of a third-party specialist. With DST’s subscription-based service, it’s easy to obtain the following benefits of using DST to manage your preventative maintenance!

Preventing a mechanical failure is always better than repairing it after the fact. It saves you money, mitigates damage, allows you to schedule repairs conveniently, and much more. DST allows you to do this because our ultrasonic testing and diagnostic platform is so precise that it can detect mechanical issues at a very early stage.

From bearings and motors to gears and valves, your techs, through using our equipment, can identify abnormal sounds such as friction, impacts, cavitation, and much more, which can indicate future failures. Having this knowledge in the early stages can prevent catastrophic failures, long downtimes, and protect your clients from unplanned shutdowns.

Outside of ultrasonic testing, there are very few ways to know what’s going on inside your equipment without opening it up and getting in there. However, using DST’s ultrasound is a non-destructive technique, meaning that it does not damage the inspected equipment and is a completely non-intrusive method.

DST’s Uutrasonic testing can be used during a piece of equipment’s normal operation and doesn’t require you to shut anything down or take anything apart, making it highly efficient. Additionally, with our RMx (remote monitoring) technology, technicians can mount Ultrasound sensors to use, throughout the life of the equipment which doesn’t require them to deal with potentially dangerous components of the machinery or climb inside an operating machine.

There are an endless number of different types of mechanical systems and components out there, spanning dozens of different industries and even more different uses. DST’s ultrasonic technology is an incredibly flexible and versatile system that can be used on a wide variety of mechanical equipment including chillers, air handlers, roof top units, pumps, motors and more.

This versatility means that many different industries can use DST, including HVAC, refrigeration, and more.

When you’re concerned about the health of your equipment, you want answers fast, and with DST, you can have them. This technology provides near-immediate results, with a process that is up to 50% faster than other comparable diagnostic techniques. That’s a lot of time saved for you to spend on other important things! Your technicians can analyze the feedback from our ultrasonic testing devices right away to learn the condition of your machinery.

This allows you to make quick decisions about your maintenance schedules, the equipment’s downtime, when to order replacement parts, and more.

Other non-destructive diagnostic techniques can be very expensive when compared to ultrasonic testing. Because the use of DST’s ultrasound technology is simple, quick, and requires relatively little in the way of equipment, it’s a highly cost-effective way to keep an eye on what’s going on with the machinery in an orderly, documented manner

When you use DST to help you manage preventative maintenance on your clients’ equipment, you can get real, hard numbers as your results that will help you make decisions. DST’s Ultrasonic testing provides technicians with a cloud-based diagnostics platform that delivers current machine condition and, recommended actions which can be reviewed by your technicians to understand the severity of issues and give you objective feedback that you can use to make decisions.

This quantitative data also allows you to compare inspection results over time, tracking your equipment’s condition and performance and analyzing trends and patterns.

With DST, these benefits of ultrasonic testing can help your business and put you on the right foot when it comes to preventive maintenance on your clients’ equipment! If you’re interested in learning more, make sure to contact us for more information on how DST can help you.