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Marine Condition Monitoring
Edge-to-cloud shaft power, vibration, and temperature monitoring for workboats and commercial vessels — from a single torque measurement to whole-drivetrain condition monitoring.
ITM brings its field-proven edge platform, ITM Connect, to the propulsion drivetrain. Starting with a wireless shaft torque and power measurement — built on the Binsfeld TorqueTrak collar — the same on-board system folds in vibration and temperature monitoring across the engine, gearbox, line shaft, and stern tube. The result is turnkey, low-touch machinery-health monitoring designed for fleets that can’t keep an engineer aboard.
How ITM serves Marine
Shaft Torque & Power
A Binsfeld TorqueTrak collar clamps onto the propeller shaft and streams torque and power to the on-board compute — no engineer aboard.
Drivetrain Vibration
Wireless vibration nodes watch the main engine, gearbox, and line shaft — order-tracked and standards-informed for early fault detection.
Bearing Temperature
Wireless thermocouple and infrared nodes track stern-tube and line-shaft bearing temperatures, flagging rate-of-rise before a bearing lets go.
Packaged Marine Monitoring
ITM Connect acquires, on-site analytics compute, and dashboards present the whole drivetrain — ship and shore — as one packaged system.
From the shaft to the whole drivetrain
1. Instrument the shaft
The Binsfeld collar’s TX50 transmitter sends shaft torque over Bluetooth Low Energy directly to the on-board compute. A two-tier acquisition captures 1 Hz KPI trends continuously and fires scheduled high-rate burst FFTs, so misfire, propeller damage, and gear-mesh signatures surface without anyone watching a screen.
2. Extend to the whole boat
Add wireless thermocouple, infrared, vibration, and hull-strain Edge Nodes, plus onboard fuel-flow and GPS feeds. The nodes are duty-cycled — waking on a roughly 60-second schedule or instantly on high vibration — and their readings are time-correlated with the live shaft data. The payoff case is the stern-tube bearing save: catching a bearing’s rate-of-rise before it becomes a casualty.
3. Diagnose the drivetrain
For a full picture, up to six wireless triaxial vibration nodes run from the engine to the stern support. Order-tracked and standards-informed — drawing on ISO 10816-6, 20283-4, and 20816-9 — the system supports port-versus-starboard comparative diagnostics on twin-screw boats. Final alarm limits are always set per vessel, OEM, and class society.
Why marine operators monitor
Regulation has turned propulsion power into a measured, reportable quantity — and the economics of an avoided failure are stark.
- Carbon rules (IMO EEXI/CII) — measured shaft power is the reference for a vessel’s carbon-intensity rating, which means continuous, auditable torque and power data.
- Towing-vessel safety (USCG Subchapter M) — the machinery-health records this monitoring generates fit directly into a towing safety management system’s maintenance evidence.
- Class notations (DNV TMON, Shaft align) — class programs reward the multi-parameter shaft monitoring ITM provides, and can extend tailshaft survey intervals.
- Loss economics — stern-tube bearing failures are among the most expensive marine machinery claims, and documented condition-based-maintenance programs report sharply fewer unplanned failures and longer maintenance intervals.
ITM’s monitoring is standards-informed — it puts the right measurement and analytics in front of your reliability team; final limits and compliance determinations rest with the vessel, its OEMs, and its class society.
Monitoring built for your fleet
From a single shaft-power survey to whole-drivetrain condition monitoring across a fleet, an ITM engineer will help you scope the right approach — in partnership with Binsfeld Engineering.
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