When you run a business, you’re always juggling dozens of different priorities for different parts of your organization. With so many needs that must be addressed, it can be an impossible task to give every priority the attention it deserves. Reliability and safety in the workplace, for example, are majorly important, but there’s only so much you can do to improve them– a little risk is always involved, right?  Let’s see.

DST uses non-contact Ultrasound in its testing, keeping technicians safer. There’s a simple and easy way to vastly improve the safety of your HVAC service operations without adding any extra stress or responsibility to your plate, and it’s to use DST’s ultrasonic testing technology for your HVAC/R equipment maintenance. Implementing DST into your preventative maintenance routine can greatly reduce or eliminate major sources of risk in the workplace for you and your employees. Here’s how!

Improving Equipment Reliability

Unpredicted and unforeseen failures in your HVAC/R equipment and machinery are a workplace risk that might seem unavoidable. If every piece of equipment always worked exactly the way it’s supposed to, there would not be a danger of injury to a person or damage to an object. However, that just isn’t the case in real life! The closest thing you can do to get to that safer world is to use DST’s non-contact ultrasonic testing to predict and prevent surprise HVAC/R equipment failures early on. With DST’s Discovery Platform, you learn if component operation is acceptable, questionable, or potentially fast-tracking to failure. Their platform documents the issue, it’s conditional priority and provides time for maintenance scheduling before it gets worse and fails. Early detection and repair, improves equipment reliability by leaps and bounds! DST’s Ultrasound Platform gives you incredibly detailed actionable information using comparative analytics which compares your equipment with other “like” equipment in its diagnostic database.

Reducing Unknowns

Even when you’re not actively dealing with a piece of HVAC/R equipment that’s questionable, the unknown factor of its internal state turns it into a potential risk in the making. With ultrasound technology from DST, what’s going on inside of your equipment never has to be a mystery! Using sophisticated, yet technician-friendly tools to analyze sound input, DST provides you with a detailed picture of how your equipment is functioning, identifying both current and upcoming problems of critical components and their conditions. It easily documents worn or damaged bearings, electrical arcing, compressor issues, refrigerant leaks, worn belts, loose components, and so much more, well before the human ear can hear or human eye can see them. When you can get a detailed and clear understanding of what’s happening with your HVAC/R machinery using non-contact Ultrasound, the risk of an accident or surprise failure becomes much lower!

Providing Safer Testing

There are many different types of diagnostic testing out there giving you options for how you want to manage your organizations preventative maintenance. As you move up into predictive maintenance however, you’re really focusing on eliminating surprise failures with the highest degree of accuracy at the earliest stage of detection in the safest manner feasible. This is the essence of predictive maintenance.

The four leading predictive technologies considered most, are Ultrasound, Vibration, Oil Analysis and Thermography. Each technology has its own threshold of detection. Ultrasound technology is the earliest warning and most sensitive technology able to detect anomalies with very high safety considerations and accuracy.  DST’s Ultrasonic testing is a very low-risk testing method which, vastly reduces the possibilities for exposure and physical danger that other methods might create and provides incredibly detailed information that other methods can’t replicate. Using DST is a win-win scenario for you and your HVAC/R equipment!

With the help of Discovery Sound Technology and the power of ultrasound, you can greatly reduce risk and enhance the reliability of your equipment and machinery. Interested in learning more? Contact our team at Discovery Sound Technology today!