Let's end this very busy week with a video which may be of interest if reliability and the management of plant assets falls within your set of responsibilities. In this 3:45 YouTube video, Impact Analysis with PeakVue and Autocorrelation, Emerson's Mark Granger...
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As Simple as a Fuel Gauge
Emerson's Craig Abbott provides the analogy of your car's fuel gauge to think about how to manage your plant assets. If you asked a large group of people “How often do you refuel your car?” almost certainly the response would not be as simple as “every Monday...
Maintenance Management and Control System Integration
A blog post by Emerson's Anand Iyer. Since the days of my "initiation" in this field, machinery protection has always been another system, whose domain has been questioned many a times. While the instrumentation and control (I&C) team would probably maintain the...
Monitoring Cooling Towers to Avoid Unplanned Downtime
Update: See a recorded version of the Cooling Tower webinar. Reliability of plant assets and process operations remains near the top of every manufacturer's list of concerns. According to the ARC Advisory Group: The global process industries lose $20 billion, or 5%...
Gaining Back Some of That 20 Percent Capacity
"According to the ARC Advisory Group of Boston, plants in the process industries 'typically operate 20% below full operational capacity,' and equipment reliability issues have been identified as one of the principal reasons for that wasteful record 1 ". This quote,...
Synchronized Information for Proving Oil Sands Extraction Process
A Control magazine article, A Data-Driven Search For Oil, captures the results of integrating intelligent devices, the automation system, and plant wide history to improve productivity of oil extraction from the oil sands of Northern Alberta, Canada. The authors...
Integrating Asset Management Fields to IO Bubbles
Emerson's Anand Iyer continues his series on Cloud I/O with a look from an asset management perspective. We have already perceived some interaction with asset management systems.The availability of communication paths and higher bandwidth in select paths will enable...
Essential Asset Monitoring at UT Separations Research Program
The University of Texas at Austin's Steve Briggs and Emerson's Nikki Bishop presented "Essential Asset Monitoring Keeps UT-Austin Out of a "Pickle" at PRC" at the 2012 Emerson Exchange. Their abstract:Traditionally, process plants were built with the minimum amount of...
How We Work-Human Centered Design for the Operating Plant
Emerson's Tom Wallace continues his series on the impact of human centered design on the technologies used by automation professionals. In previous blog posts, I shared some of the science behind Human Centered Design (HCD). In this and the next couple of blog posts,...
Business Case for Essential Asset Monitoring
"According to Solomon Associates, a world-class performer is a company whose maintenance costs are below 1.4 percent plant replacement value, with mechanical availability greater than 96.7 percent." Are your maintenance costs below this 1.4% threshold and 96.7%...
Vibration Monitoring Improves Wind Turbine Availability
Rotating machinery including wind turbines are subject to wear and tear over time. Emerson's Douglas Morris, a member of the alternative energy team, shares how vibration-monitoring equipment can help avoid unplanned downtime and costly maintenance. The United States'...
Driving Reliability through Asset Management Improvements
If you're planning to attend the 16th Annual ARC World Industry Forum in Orlando, Florida on February 6-9, make sure to see Augie DiGiovanni presentation, Improve Asset Management to Drive Reliability. Augie is the vice president for Emerson's Asset Optimization...
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