Aspen Mtell prescriptive maintenance software and Emerson AMS asset monitoring and health analysis software compile disparate data sources to make smarter decisions to drive top-quartile reliability performance. Register for one of the Thursday, June 22, 9am CDT, or Thursday, July 20, 9am GMT sessions. The presenters will be AspenTech’s John Campbell and Emerson’s Mani Nambiar.
Success must be supported so it can be sustained. As Chris Jensen and H.P. Slater discuss in an article in the July issue of Process Heating, this line of thinking is no less true in predictive maintenance (PdM) than in anything else. Some companies are impressed with...
Effective monitoring requires good measurement, effective analytics to help understand the measurement, and clear guidance for action to resolve the issue. For manufacturing and production facilities already instrumented for process control, adding measurements can be...
Author: Douglas Morris Today's fossil power plants are faced with the challenge of stabilizing the fluctuating grid power supply due to renewable generation and, as a result, plants originally designed for base load are subject to load cycling. A principal consequence...
If your responsible for reliability and maintenance practices at your facility, I'm sure you're very aware of Uptime magazine and the Reliabilityweb.com site. Last week at the Emerson Exchange conference in Austin, CEO and Publisher Terrence O'Hanlon recorded a 9:11...
Effective reliability programs affect safety, availability and efficiency for process manufacturers and producers. Recently, at the Emerson Exchange conference in Denver, Saudi Aramco's Ras Tanura Refinery was awarded Reliability Program of the Year. The Saudi Aramco...
The reliability of your plant assets affects safety, unscheduled downtime, maintenance costs, quality and the overall efficiency of your operations. Solomon Associates in their Reliability and Maintenance Study quantify the significance of top quartile performance...
The editors of Maintenance Technology magazine asked me to write a column on technology advancements to improve reliability for process manufacturers and producers. I was excited to be asked and given the opportunity to share some thoughts! The article, Viewpoint:...
Equipment failure is the leading cause of unplanned loss of production for most process manufacturers and producers. Critical equipment is typically continuously monitored but often other equipment has been too difficult or cost prohibitive to monitor. Here is short...
One only has to do a Twitter search on the hashtag #Reliability to see how often the topic is discussed from a process manufacturing and production standpoint. The reliability of plant assets affects overall production levels, quality, safety, environmental...
When performing vibration measurements during route-based maintenance activities, different vibration measurements uncover different issues with plant machinery. In this 4:20 YouTube video, PeakVue Analysis, Emerson's Mark Granger demonstrates some of these...
At a meeting last week with our global consultants, I caught up with Emerson's Tinh Phan. He shared with me a new course that has been created using human-centered design (HCD) persona information by the Emerson Educational Services team. It addresses how to manage...
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