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New Article – Data Standards Lead to Project Success
Assets begin to degrade as soon as they are in operation. If the documentation for those assets is lost in a storage room collecting dust, equipment may not receive the level of maintenance that it truly needs. This lack of maintenance is compounded when the enterprise-asset-management systems (EAM) and computerized-maintenance-management software (CMMS) systems aren’t updated during project implementation. Without detailed asset data, maintenance technicians don’t have immediate access to essential information.
As technicians become more and more frustrated with the state of the plant due to their lack of access to vital operations and maintenance (O&M) or Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) sensor data, and as equipment degrades due to improper maintenance and lack of monitoring, assets begin to fail, resulting in plant downtime and increased safety risk.
Read the full article by Scott Janzen, CMRP in Efficient Plant here.
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Reliability Technology & Tools
Emerson’s Plantweb™ Digital Ecosystem Expands to Improve Enterprise-Wide Visibility into Plant Health
Plantweb Optics is a new mobile-ready collaboration software platform that provides an unprecedented view of plant reliability and operational performance. Connecting technicians, engineers and plant management through Plantweb Optics transforms decades-old work processes, providing cross-functional collaboration and decision-making to help plants operate safely and profitably. More more information, go to www.emerson.com/PlantwebOptics.
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Reliability Tip:
Detecting Failure Modes Through Instrumentation
Jason Price
Most physical assets these days contain a large number of instruments for monitoring and managing the operation of that asset. Maintenance is not often aware of the potential in these configurations to identify failure modes using the assets instruments. One reason is that maintenance often looks for a single point of data to isolate the failure mode, and most times targeting a failure mode in this way would require several instruments. I call this “Triangulation”. An example of this I have witnessed recently was in a plate heat exchanger. In this example 2-4 instrument outputs were required to target a specific failure mode.
In the example of the plate heat exchanger, the failure mode they targeted was fouling or loading of the exchanger internally. The temperature and flow instruments created a thermal efficiency calculation in their DCS which displayed the exchangers performance real time. When the exchanger loaded up, or otherwise declined in its performance operations requested the exchanger be disassembled inspected and cleaned. This detection method also applies for corrosion which reduces the thermal efficiency of the plates as well. By taking this approach, they eliminated a minimum of 30 hours of work and downtime each year for each of their 12 heat exchangers, and made this part of their maintenance program entirely condition based.
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