Asset management diagnostics are useful to maintenance and reliability personnel as they troubleshoot issues in the plant. But asset management can deliver even greater value by improving work planning.

Imagine that one of the critical pumps in the FCC unit is experiencing cavitations, causing bearing wear.

This condition flags an alert that passes through AMS Suite to automatically push a work order request to your CMMS planner.

 Use the asset health dashboard to review the work history. A maintenance technician notices that this pump has had the same alert three times in the last 2 years.

In addition to scheduling the work, he sends the information to the reliability analyst for additional analysis. By analyzing the predictive diagnostics available for the pump along with process event history, the reliability analyst suspects that the root cause of the cavitations is likely from fluctuating levels in the fractionator.

The analyst recommends a different level range to Operations. Together they validate together that this addresses the root cause of the problem.

By identifying the root cause through advanced diagnostics, the reliability analyst not only minimizes the risk of reoccurrence of the issue, but also improves equipment reliability. The team avoids continued damage to the equipment and can run the plant in a way that maintains maximum production.

This type of proactive maintenance is the real driver to improved availability in a plant.

Predictive diagnostics for maintenance and reliability personnel, not only assist with troubleshooting of assets, but also enable a more effective approach to the planning of maintenance activities. Instead of scheduled maintenance, activities are driven by actual asset condition.