Machinery protection systems are nothing new. Plants have been using them to protect their assets and personnel for decades. However, modern machinery protection systems are changing the game, with new features designed to offer more capability and flexibility....
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Rotating Machinery Protection and API Standard 670
For those managing the reliability for large complexes such as refineries and petrochemical plants, protecting the rotating machinery that can number in the hundreds can be a daunting task. Recently a refinery manager asked Emerson's Gary Hawkins about options for...
Condition Monitoring of Hydroelectric Plants
Author: Douglas MorrisThings are not getting easier for the power industry as it experiences increasing complexity with dispatching generating units. Because dispatching is determined by a host of factors including cost, demand, transmission, environmental constraints...
Offshore Oil & Gas Platform Machinery Protection and Prediction Systems Results
The harsh, corrosive environment found on offshore oil & gas platforms can lead to unplanned downtime and lost production when equipment fails. A Scandinavian Oil-Gas magazine article, Upgraded Online Protection and Prediction Systems Improve Machinery Health...
Chilean Miners Challenge-Extract More with Same Number of Personnel
The pictures were coming in last week from the EXPONOR conference in Chile over on the Emerson Process Management Facebook page. Emerson's Juan Carlos Bravo, a member of the Metals & Mining industry team, shares his perspectives from the conference. On June 17th,...
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%...
Spotting Bearing Failure in Time before Complete Fan Failure
In a prior post, The Peaks Provide the Early Warning in Machinery Protection, I highlighted how using high-speed, PeakVue digital sampling of machinery vibration could help spot mechanical defects long before traditional vibration monitors could. I received a note...
Rotating Equipment Monitoring and Protection
I discovered a great article, The Signs of Failure, in the fall edition of Resource Engineering & Maintenance magazine. Emerson's Dan Nower, a member of the Machinery Health Management team wrote the article. Dan shares the thought that most rotating machinery...
Accessible Wireless Vibration Monitoring
I always enjoy reading articles written by Emerson's Jonas Berge. He explains concepts simply and makes them easily understandable. What prompted this thought is a recent article in Control Engineering Asia magazine, Value from Vibration. You may recall Jonas from...
Reducing Complexity to Connect People with Useful Information
Let's close the week with a peek at a new whitepaper from Emerson's DeltaV team, Emerson Process Management's Human Centered Design Philosophy: Conquering Complexity. The team is led by DeltaV brand manager, Rune Reppenhagen. The intent of this human-centered design...
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