Predictive maintenance helps avoid unplanned shutdowns and inefficient work practices that eat away at profits - including "no problem found" maintenance assignments, equipment pulled from the line for maintenance that's not needed yet, and manual record-keeping that takes as much as 50% of technicians' time.

AMS Suite: Intelligent Device Manager, a key component of the PlantWeb architecture, helps you avoid these unnecessary costs by providing a universal window into intelligent field devices -- including HART, FOUNDATION fieldbus, and conventional instruments.

Its comprehensive set of analysis and reporting tools presents a single application for:

• Predictive diagnostics
• Documentation
• Calibration management
• Device configuration
• Trouble shooting

Maintenance technicians can use just a few keystrokes to check a device remotely and configure and trim it. And the maintenance shop or the control room staffers can continually monitor devices so they know immediately if there's a problem.

All this adds up to significant savings as problems are predicted and intercepted before they cause major plant upsets. Payoffs include easier installation and startup, lower maintenance costs, and improved device performance--all with a direct impact on your bottom line.

For more information on AMS Suite: Intelligent Device Manager visit http://www.emersonprocess.com/ams