Unleashing the Value of Advanced Diagnostics using a Process-Centric Approach to Asset Management

摘要

Many refineries and other plants are looking for greater return on existing assets while using fewerresources to support those assets. Operators inside those plants want to manage the entire process moreefficiently, increase safety, reduce variability and optimize production. Maintenance managers want toincrease asset availability and reduce maintenance costs. Using FOUNDATION? Fieldbus as anenabler, new advanced diagnostics, which reside in “smarter” field devices, are being developed toprovide timely data and information to integrated asset/alarm managers. But is data necessarilyinformation? An integrated, process-centric approach to asset management can differentiate betweendata and information from field devices and make actionable decisions so plants can increase safety,improve asset availability and reduce maintenance costs.