Despite its advanced technology, the plant can enter into a non-steady state if various parameters interact in unfavorable ways. When this happens, the rollers move up and down without proper control and thus produce overloads or underloads and torque peaks at the gear units. This can cause serious damage to the drive train and the entire system. 
To minimize the risk of such malfunctions, Antea Cement received support from Siemens, which manufactured the mill motors, gear units and clutches.The plan was for the two companies to jointly design a monitoring solution which would enable the plant to operate continuously and minimize the danger of unscheduled downtimes.

Antea Cement commissioned Siemens to install a Drive Train condition Monitoring System for a KMPP vertical mill gear unit and the associated motor. A large number of sensors provides the operator with important process information during continuous monitoring of torque, motor speed and temperature. This information helps optimize mill operation and also provides early detection of imminent overload and underload peaks. 

The Titan Group is a Greek producer of cement and building materials with a history of continuous success lasting more than 100 years. Antea Cement, built by the Group in Albania, is one of the world’s most technologically advanced cement plants with an annual production volume of approximately 1.5 million metric tons.