“The costs of failure in the construction industry remain very high,” says Ruud van Gorp, Manager of Operations and R&D at RAXTAR. “In the Netherlands alone, annual costs are estimated at €5 billion, while globally, over 40% of construction companies estimate that their failure costs amount to 5% or more of the total budget for each project.” Digitalization is required to manage and limit these costs.

For accessing data generated by the hoist, RAXTAR uses HMS’ Ewon Flexy 205 gateway, not only as a remote access tool, but also as a data gateway for secure MQTT messaging. This makes it easy to collect and monitor the critical data needed for predictive maintenance and performance monitoring. 

RX Control manages over 150 parameters of a construction hoist and provides exact information about the control system and behavior of the hoist. Collecting this data enables real-time insights into the hoist’s operation. By comparing live hoist parameters and analyzing all alarms, RAXTAR realized they could start implementing predictive maintenance throughout their global installed base.

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HMS, a perfect one-stop-shop

Managing the data journey, all the way from source to secure storage, makes HMS a critical partner for RAXTAR as it proceeds on its own digitalization journey. Points on the “data route-map” that are managed by HMS include collection, transmission, secure cloud storage, and analysis.

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