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Gap Monitoring System

Valmet’s Gap Monitoring System (GMS) offers a plug-and-play solution for refiner safety and optimization, delivering real-time gap monitoring to improve pulp quality, reduce energy consumption, and enhance operational efficiency.

Plug-and-play

Quick installation enables your team to quickly realize the system’s benefits without extensive training or complex adjustments.

Semi-automatic calibration

Adaptable features allow for a personalized monitoring process that aligns with your unique production needs.

Large touch-screen

4” screen provides a simplified user interface for operators.

What is it?

The Gap Monitoring System (GMS) is a cutting-edge solution designed to elevate machine safety, performance, and automation. Easily installed in existing setups, the GMS delivers precise, real-time monitoring of disc gaps in refiners, boosting pulp quality, reducing energy consumption, and simplifying operations. The system's plug-and-play design minimizes downtime, while its user-friendly interface allows operators to calibrate and manage the system with ease. The GMS can be enabled with both Valmet Industrial Internet and remote support and troubleshooting. By integrating Valmet's Industrial Internet Services, GMS enables proactive maintenance and resource optimization, resulting in improved sustainability and significant cost savings.

Streamlined Setup with Easy Calibration

Featuring a simplified, user-friendly setup and calibration, the GMS allows for rapid installation and seamless integration without requiring extensive training or complex adjustments. This not only saves valuable time for your operators but also ensures quick access to the system's benefits.

Gap measurement and control, together with semi-automatic, easy, and fast calibration, reduce downtime, prevent costly breakdowns, and ultimately maximize production. One customer reported energy savings nearing 5% when running the system with true disc clearance technology compared to previously running without it.

The system is connectivity-ready, and if enabled, Valmet can provide remote troubleshooting of the system as well as access to Valmet's data-driven performance services that help optimize the process, runnability, and maintenance proactivity

Benefits

Space-saving plug-and-play system that fits directly into the cabinet
4" touch-screen simplified user interface
Minimal programming - many operators are up and running within hours
Reliability - Maximized uptime
Semi-automatic calibration of segments
Industry expert training and monitoring

Are you ready to succeed with us?

Looking to accurately control disc gaps to improve pulp quality, reduce energy consumption, or optimize your operations?

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