At Discovery Sound Technology, cloud-based ultrasound predictive maintenance is the name of our game. It’s what we do and what we know. It’s over a decade of research, gathering HVACR ultrasound inspections and continually improving the technician user interface. The highly sensitive sound readings that our ultrasonic testing devices can take from your machinery, and the advanced and patented software we use to analyze those readings, don’t just help you identify where you have existing problems and faults in your equipment– they can identify future problems that haven’t reared their heads yet and help you to avoid them altogether! Predictive maintenance with DST is a revolutionary practice for your business that “changes the game” and will enhance your customer relationship in many ways. Here’s how!

Adjust Your Maintenance Schedule

The maintenance that you conduct on your machinery, like applying lubricant to bearings, topping off fluids on gears, cleaning filters and traps, and aligning parts and components helps to keep things running smoothly, getting you the most efficient performance from your equipment, and extending its lifespan. However, this vital maintenance is most helpful if you’re performing it when and where it’s needed. Greasing bearings that don’t need it but neglecting to align pumps, motors and couplings won’t help your equipment much over time. Using DST to monitor your machinery will give you specific insight into exactly what tasks you need to do and when so that you’re not wasting time and energy on unnecessary tasks or skipping important ones. DST color-codes the urgency of the problems identified through its ultrasound analysis automatically for the technician. The advances in technology and comparative analytics that DST has developed and patented, have also significantly expanded what its Ultrasound platform can detect…even with fewer steps than other technologies saving you unneeded steps and time. Have “floodback” on a compressor or “arching” in motors or control panels… DST’s Ultrasound diagnostics will document that condition automatically. DST has seen time savings of up to 50% in many instances. Potentially more if you’re using their RMx Remote Monitoring Platforms in your hard to access, multi-point, and critical applications.

Repair Faults Early

Even machinery that’s used properly and maintained adequately will suffer from some degradation eventually from normal wear and tear that occurs over time. Repairing and maintaining this is a normal part of using this equipment. However, when you’re relying on traditional maintenance and testing methods, it isn’t quite as simple as it can be with DST. 

Without Ultrasound, small problems and pending faults can often go unnoticed in their early stages, and by the time they become obvious at human hearing levels, they’ve worsened and turned into something more expensive and disruptive to repair. It’s far more effective to catch these faults when they first appear and fix them early, so that you can prevent further damage. When you’re using DST’s ultrasonic technology to inform your predictive maintenance schedule, finding these problems early and repairing them will cost less money & prevent “surprise” failures.

Eliminate Unnecessary Interventions

As an HVACR technician, the day of you having to routinely plan your maintenance and repairs with no documented sense of what’s going on inside a piece of equipment are fading fast. Many of those days end when you start using DST’s Discovery Platform as designed. Why waste technician time and effort on unneeded tasks when you could be targeting your efforts specifically to where they’re needed and documented over time. Using DST for predictive maintenance saves you time and money on your HVACR equipment diagnosis by identifying exactly where the problems are, what the problem consist of and prevents you from having to interfere with a part or component that’s working properly and doesn’t need attention. The DST platform will also provide you with “recommended actions” that have been vetted by senior technicians that have the experiential insight to make those. Recommendations. The power of DST’s ultrasound technology can provide you with a customized digital road map and documented history of your HVACR equipment. You’ll be amazed at the results you can see from following it!

Performing your predictive and preventative maintenance with the help of DST’s ultrasonic testing will take your business to the next level! If you’re interested in learning more, make sure you contact our team today for further information.