These preventative practices can actually introduce problems to the equipment, creating conditions leading to future failures. And when equipment problems are handled reactively, operators have to spend the time managing and verifying alarms, assessing risk to the operation, then taking corrective action. Wouldn’t you rather they were maximizing capacity utilization and improving operating efficiencies?
PlantWeb digital plant architecture can increase your team's productivity as much as 67%
- PlantWeb's predictive intelligence enables you to increase maintenance productivity by detecting and diagnosing potential equipment problems before they grow while enabling maintenance personnel to avoid unnecessary and unproductive tasks and focus on higher-value work.
- The architecture's information integration and easy-to-use control and optimization capabilities enable operators to expand their span of control and run the process at the most economical and profitable operating points.
Too often, troubleshooting is one of the most unproductive and frustrating tasks maintenance people face. What if, instead, all the thousands of pieces of equipment running the plant could check themselves and tell you when there's a problem…before it happens?
Instead of making trip after trip to the field checking the equipment you think may be the cause of a problem you already have, your team could focus on the more valuable work of fixing and avoiding the problems you know are going to happen. Maintenance technicians relying on predictive intelligence shift from being reactive to predictive…..detecting and diagnosing problems before they occur.
- Valve signature diagnostics in Fisher FIELDVUE digital valve controllers, can tell you (while the valve is still in service) if wear, stiction, or other conditions call for maintenance… and when its needed.
- Machinery Health technologies can detect high-frequency noise associated with the earliest stages of bearing wear in rotating equipment.
- Remote monitoring and diagnostics also increase productivity by speeding equipment checks. With AMS Device Manager, what might have been a 25-minute check in the field becomes a 2-minute task done online from the maintenance shop.
- Automatic documentation capabilities also reduce time spent on data entry and other paperwork.
With PlantWeb, operators can typically manage more loops. Part of the gain comes from PlantWeb's solid, reliable regulatory and advanced control, which reduces the need for frequent manual intervention. But the improvement also results from better alarm and alert management, which expands operators' ability to respond to abnormal situations.
And because many problems can now be predictively sensed before they affect process performance, they never even hit the operator's "dashboard" - increasing his productivity by allowing him to focus on improving production. Therefore best-practices plants improve productivity and reduce costs by emphasizing a predictive maintenance strategy (see graphic inset).
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